I wrote this long-winded post to address some of the recent concerns, comments and questions regarding this route, and I hope some might find it useful. I flew from Dublin to Lourdes on the 18th of April, took the train to Pau and started walking...
Round the corner and up the hill from the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, about 50m away, is the Faculty of Medicine's huge cafeteria that must be able to seat between 200 and 300 people. They have a tiny blackboard sign at foot level on the main...
Choose Demi-Pensión every time that you can. Almost always great food and company.
Tell them you can’t send a cheque, when i’ve done that they have said don’t worry about it, and booked me in anyway.
I noticed that Gronze suggests walking the regular, non Foz de Lumbier route, presumably to avoid the extensive road walking into and out of the gorge area, but for me it was a small price to pay to spend time there.
I walked the Lumbier Gorge in late April on a Sunday morning. If you walk on a Sunday, make sure you traverse it early. Be aware that the gorge seems to be a favorite place for locals to take a walk and picnic on Sunday. The closer I got to...
I just came back from walking the Aragones, it is a lovely, uncrowded walk. Parts were well-marked, parts were poorly marked. We took the Lumbier alternative. It was beautiful, however, we didn't see any arrows between Sanguesa and Liedena. We...
Enjoy, it's a great route. We started April 1, the way to the Pass was a bit challenging. From Jaca, make sure you have food and water, not many resources between some of the albergues. If you want to go to the Monastery outside Jaca, try to...
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