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The Hague to St Jean

Lachance

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Part Francese 2016
BG: Flight to Paris booked months ago and plenty of info on travel from there to St Jean. But now my son and family are shortly to move to the Hague for several years. So it will be Paris to the Hague at the start.

Would appreciate advice on getting from the Hague to St Jean in Apr 2016. Last posts I could find are several years old.

Deb
 
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There is a route from Amsterdam to Gent in Belgium and so on into France which connects the traditional French routes.
It is easy to get on the route from Amsterdam, coming from den Haag.

The Dutch Sint Jacobs Genootschap in Utrecht can supply you lots of information about it

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Hi Lachance,

This should be easy enough. You could take a train back to Paris from Den Haag and continue on from there.

Or take a fast train (TGV, thalys) from Den Haag to Bordeaux, Bayonne or Pau. (you will have to transfer several times but that's part of the fun :) )
Or you could take the eurolines bus service directly to Bordeaux, Bayonne, Pau or another big city near Saint Jean.

Last year I took the train from Brussels to Lyon and continued on by bus to Aire Sur L'Adour when I started my camino then.
And a couple of years earlier I took the eurolines bus from Brussels direct to Irun on the del norte and that bus also passed Bayonne.

Hope this helps,
 
How much time you got? How much of the way do you really want to walk? Come back to Paris and walk the Via Turonensis is shorter, Lepere editions published the guidebook. Try too, "Paris to the Pyrenees - A Skeptical Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James" by David Downie. Maybe consider the Chemin Vezelay, longer but much nicer (first of all you don't have to walk through Paris!). Miam Miam Dodo is the guide book. This is the classical chemin of the Belgians, many Dutch and Belgian pilgrims along this Chemin and many Dutch and Belgian lodgings.
 
The question is indeed do you want to walk or only want to know about public transportation? Thalys (fast train) to Paris is the easiest way. Leaving from Central Station in The Hague (Den Haag) it takes about 3 hours with one change in Rotterdam. Use this site to look up times:www.9292ov.nl.
It you have a problem just let me know. I live a half hour from The Hague.
 
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BG: Flight to Paris booked months ago and plenty of info on travel from there to St Jean. But now my son and family are shortly to move to the Hague for several years. So it will be Paris to the Hague at the start.

Would appreciate advice on getting from the Hague to St Jean in Apr 2016. Last posts I could find are several years old.

Deb
Hi Deb, as Albertinho stated the Dutch Genoodschap van St.Jacob can provide you with more information.
Wish you well and a Buen Camino, Peter.
 
Thank you everyone. Sorry I failed to make it clear that I was asking about public transport. I have roughly a month altogether, so no time to walk from den Haag, although the idea is enticing. I Googled getting from there to St Jean and was just looking for practical tips. V grateful for the responses.

It will be a curtailed 1st camino now as I will seize the opportunity to be seeing my dear grandchildren at both ends. But that's ok. They'll be there for at least a couple of years. I'm quite thrilled about combining family visits and camino segments.
 
Thank you everyone. Sorry I failed to make it clear that I was asking about public transport. I have roughly a month altogether, so no time to walk from den Haag, although the idea is enticing. I Googled getting from there to St Jean and was just looking for practical tips. V grateful for the responses.

It will be a curtailed 1st camino now as I will seize the opportunity to be seeing my dear grandchildren at both ends. But that's ok. They'll be there for at least a couple of years. I'm quite thrilled about combining family visits and camino segments.
You can fly by Transavia from Rotterdam/the Hague airport to Biaritz if you call flying "public transport" and from there is an easy access to Saint Jean Pied de Port by bus or train
 
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