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Thanks for all the suggestions. Your help is definitely appreciated. We have two more questions to help us make a final decision:
1. Is our estimate of 25-30 km per day a normal walking distance for the pilgrimage or aggressive? (we only have long-distance hiking experience in the mountains...
My wife and I can only get 18-22 days and decided that rather than starting at StJean and pushing ourselves with heavy days, we would shorten the walk and enjoy ourselves and the experience. The problem is that we don't know which cities on the Camino have easy access (preferably rail).
As...
Hi All,
My wife and I are considering starting from Le Puy at the start of March 2009. Is this too early? I read in another thread that starting in Chartres around this time isn't too bad, however most people seem to start in April.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Richard.
Thanks for the quick replies to our questions. This information really helps make this decision a lot easier. It looks more likely that VDLP is the route for us.
If anybody else has information, please feel free to keep this thread going.
Hello all,
My wife and I have just confirmed our two months of vacation next spring and are trying to nail down our route and have a few final questions about via de la plata in comparison to camino frances.
As background, we are fit and have quite a bit of experience with long-distance...
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