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[QUOTE="walkabouts, post: 1183604, member: 97254"] Hi @Jillcat My wife and I walked the VDLP from 26 April 2023 departing Seville and arriving at Oviedo on 5 July, just on 900 km. We planned for an average of 18-22km per day, walked the entire route. We stopped often to look at places off the camino and have a rest day or two. However, we had the time to walk this as we wanted to experience the history and culture along the way. This included a few days off doing sight seeing, resting up, looking at how life is lived in small villages, towns. Forget the guide book stages, just use them to get ideas of how you want to walk the VDLP but not as a directory to tell you how far you must walk each day. While they provide useful information along the way, it is easy enough to plan your own distances. We sometimes walked a different road to get to the next town as some of the routes indicated on the GPS track on our phone were senseless, mostly likely a track recording error, satellite blind spot, or just that the person wanted to walk that particular route, or even that there was a diversion at the time they walked. If you can read a map, then this will not be a problem. We found the virtual VDLP referred to above to be a very useful tool (thanks to the other forum members for their contributions here, they were very helpful) and we used that as a big part of our planning. As you may know, start off slowly at first, even if you can do the daily distance. Take your time and let your body get used to repetitive walking. Factor in more "rest" days than you might think you need. A short walking day is also a good rest day. By the time we got to Merida, we put in a couple of days >24km but we were a bit trail fit by then. Did I mention the heat, days >40C? The section to Canaveral was 34 km, it was a love/hate section with nothing in between. But you build up to it mentally as well as physically. It was our longest day so the next day we only walked to 9km to Grimaldo. A great small albergue and we really enjoyed it there. Great ambience and a good hotel next to it to meet with the locals. Is the VDLP tough? Not really if you approach it sensibly. It is not one where you have a camino family, and you may only see a few people for a day or two. It is a solo challenge in that respect. Most walked a lot faster than us so we only saw them for a few days. Having walked the Le Puy and Frances to Santiago, the VDLP and the San Salvador rated the highest in terms of the experience we had. The key is to enjoy the journey along the way, rather than focus on the destination. That will arrive soon enough and you want to get there in good shape. Have Plan B up your sleeve as well, as things happen along the way. Instead of walking to Astorga, we walked directly to Hospital d'Orbigo from La Beneza as we went then to Leon and onto the San Salvador to Oviedo. We often had albergues to ourselves after Granja and even before this split in the camino. However we saw more people on the route to Leon in the first few hours after starting from Hospital d'Orbigo than we saw in the entire walk from Seville. We walked against the flow for two days to Leon into a veritable phalanx of pilgrims marching inexorably toward us and onto the next albergue, with hardly a raised eyebrow or a greeting. Not that we minded, it was just an observation. We recommend the camino VDLP but it takes a different mindset. Would we do it again? Yes indeed. Happy travels [/QUOTE]
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