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[QUOTE="Gary Martin, post: 671241, member: 32936"] This is my first time joining a discussion on this forum I hope I’m doing it right. I walked this route a few years ago at the age of 70 and can confirm That it requires more skills than the Camino Francis. I speak no French and carried no phone so I found that the option of sleeping rough was essential and that the French I G in maps were wonderful. These maps can be downloaded electronically for about €25 a year and I used them both for finding the route and for planning alternative routes that were more interesting or efficient. The deserted small villages were a bit spooky and even water was hard to find until I discovered that the cemeteries always had an unlocked tap. Being flexible with the route worked well for me. I started with the Arles switched to the towpath of the canal do midi then dropped south to the Piemonte. Any town that had a visitor center seem to have an English speaker with information on the Camino. The lodging that I manage to find on the in frequently traveled Camino was always a pleasant and unique experience ranging from being the guest of the vocal clergyman to being a celebrity at Lourds where they gave me dinner and a private room and refused to let me pay. I walked the Arles route, switched to following the tow path of the Canal de Midi, and then dropped south to the Chemin Pimont in May 2013 and although I walked alone with no French and no phone and was 70 years old, I found it doable and very worthwhile. The comments about this route are accurate don’t be too easily discouraged! It’s worth the effort. The things I found most useful were: a subscription to the downloadable French IGN large scale maps. With this I could re-find the route when I lost it, choose to walk an alternative road when the GR trail headed up onto a mountain and right back down for no apparent reason, I carried sleeping bag and a tarp for rough camping (didn’t have to find lodging every night), the small deserted French villages are kinda spooky but I could reliably find water ...one live tap in every cemetery I visited. Any town large enough to have a visitor center seemed to have an English speaker who helped me find pilgrim lodging or attractions. The pilgrim services varied, sometimes I was the guest of a local clergy, one time I ate in the staff room of a luxury hotel. When I arrived at Lourdes Pilgrimage Center and presented my stamped credential they refused to accept payment for food and lodging. I was rare as they receive thousands of visitors via car and bus. Pilgrim stamps aren’t reliably found in France and I logged latitude and longitude of my nightly camp or got a signature of my host on my credential. This route is not convenient but it is remote and beautiful and very worthwhile. [/QUOTE]
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