Thanks Margaret!! I'm looking to do about 2 weeks (did the Frances last year in 26 days, but don't have that much time this time around
( ... But I'd like to do something special as well and thought about a new route - this is why I thought about France. I think that finishing at SJPDP is kinda special, but maybe that two-week route before SJPDP in France is not the best? Any other sugeestion with a starting point and a interesting finishing point?
Thanks a bunch!!
Dan
Hi Dan ,
You will not be sorry if you start in Le Puy.
[ 1 ] 200km [ plus or minus 10km] = Conques..........church @ 11.00am is a great feeling as this stop is just as big as STJPDP and may i say a more famous town. Wonderful stop , majority of pilgrims will stop here and its has a very big pilgrim feeling.
[ 2 ] 50km to Figeac and transport if running out of time
[ 3 ] 90km to Cahors , great town to relax .
Thats 340km and Cahors has all the transport you need to return home.
You will find Le Puy harder than Frances and seeing Falcon has not answered my earlier post and disagreed more beautiful , especially the section to Conques.
As Margaret has said earlier when you walk the GR65 St Jean is just a stop over.It has a great feeling especially as all of us completed Frances first but as we complete different ways it really is just a stopover and sometimes not even that if going via Valcarlos which is a town we love.
After you walk Le Puy , completely, this might be the case with St Jean Pied de Port.
I say this knowing many turn left @ Ostabat and go over the mountain much higher than StJ @ Samport and turn up @ Puente
l' Reina
Very doable the 340km and it will not disappoint.