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  1. SongKhonGair

    Voie d'Arles

    I'm not the OP, but thank you for your comment. I had already dowloaded mapy.cz, but was a bit lost finding trails on their website to download. Your comment makes me realise it is a lot simpler than that! Interesting you used Léguevin as an example btw. Gronze has a bit of a whinge in the...
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    Voie d'Arles

    Hi Stephen Neil from Australia here. We will also leave from Toulouse, but go via Lourdes and SJPP. I have the Buen Camino app, which covers the Chemin d'Arles amongst many others. I'm yet to use it on the road, so no idea of accuracy etc. The 'index of localities' screen does say "Do not...
  3. SongKhonGair

    A busy April?

    If accommodation is tight, we might mostly avoid staying in "stage end" locations is all. Hard to say though, some days we may feel like a bit of rabble rousing (dinner and a bottle of wine) in a busy town, others we may feel like a quiet night (dinner and a bottle of wine) somewhere, well...
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    A busy April?

    You have given me a horrible realisation - perhaps the Brierley and Gronze stages are not the same? I have used the latter for my planning, and will carry the former. They are the same up to Pamplona at least, I had best have a quick comparison of the rest and make some notes in the Brierley...
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    A busy April?

    We shall leave SJPP on May 1st. I have just completed booking accommodation all the way to Pamplona, as recommended by many. I was surprised how difficult it was - our preferred SJPP gite, as well as our preferred hotel, were already booked out. And in requesting a double room further down...
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    Starting the Camino from the end of Le Puy/ Arles

    Hi, Another first-timer here, starting from Toulouse. I am on my phone, please excuse the vague terms I may use! Toulouse is not the end of the Arles route, it goes all the way to Spain via the Somport pass. From there you can reach the Frances via another path, joining / meeting the CF near...
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    Accomodation in L'Isle-Arné

    We will also start from Toulouse, in April. I haven't been able to find any accommodation in that area either. I have a six years old dodo (?) St Jacques GR653 / GR101 guide, and the only place it mentions is the now closed gite. Before we start I shall visit the pilgrim reception at Basilique...
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    How best to get to Oloron-Sainte-Marie or??

    Ah, good idea. Thank you.
  9. SongKhonGair

    Happy new year from 2024 here in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Wow, what's it like in The Future?? It's still 2023 here in Thailand. Happy New Year to all!
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    How best to get to Oloron-Sainte-Marie or??

    You can take regional trains from Barcelona to Toulouse, changing trains at Latour-de-Carol just over the French border. The route from there goes thru Foix - I don't see any other lines, so you'd need to go to Toulouse before making your way to Oloron. Or join the Chemin du Piémont at...
  11. SongKhonGair

    Booking Albergue Borda for 2024 now open

    Booked for May 1st. No private rooms left. But we have beds, and can savor the Roncesvalles stage over two days. Yay.
  12. SongKhonGair

    We come from a land down under

    Thank you Sarah. Borda haven't opened their bookings yet. Getting nervous... I don't think you need to worry about planning much past Pamplona? I only did a rough plan for our entire Camino just to know we can comfortably make it with time to spare before our flight home. I can use that to...
  13. SongKhonGair

    We come from a land down under

    I read your 2024 plans somewhere, in the 'April starts' thread perhaps? Amazing! And inspiring. I assume the order of SJPdP - SdC, then Le Puy - SJPdP is about temperatures, or crowds, or flights, or public / school holidays. Irrelevant anyway - I do look forward to following your story...
  14. SongKhonGair

    We come from a land down under

    Thank you @Pelerina, those are meaningful words coming from a veteran such as yourself. Hmmm, 'Kumano Kodo Buddhist Pilgrimage Trail' in your signature. I shall read up on that, Nida is of course Buddhist and I spent a short time as an ordained Buddhist monk (a Thai cultural tradition, and I...
  15. SongKhonGair

    We come from a land down under

    Oh, I think we have watched some of your YouTube videos - we had a good laugh over the idea of taking a rice cooker. 😅😂🤣 You don't need to be psychic to see a lot of paella in my (Spanish) future!
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