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I understand from your post that you have three weeks available to walk and travel to and from the chemin. It is not difficult to start past Le Puy ... there are two shuttle bus services that run every day from Le Puy-en-Velay to Conques and beyond [La Malle Postale and Compostel’Bus] and you...
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neither Wise Pilgrim nor Buen Camino are up-to-date for the Le Puy route [aka Via Podiensis] certainly as far as accommodation is concerned; understandably their focus is much more on the camino routes in Spain ...
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there are lots of resources available for english speakers re Via...
neither Wise Pilgrim nor Buen Camino are up-to-date for the Le Puy route [aka Via Podiensis] certainly as far as accommodation is concerned; understandably their focus is much more on the camino routes in Spain ...
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there are lots of resources available for english speakers re Via...
Best to take the train from Lyon [Part-Dieu train station] to Le Puy-en-Velay via Saint-Etienne where you make a quick and almost seamless change to the local train ... one connection, generally in the afternoon, is to a bus
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if flying in to Paris CDG [and not staying overnight] there is a...
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never too early to reserve accommodations on the Voie du Puy-en-Velay but, that said, July is much quieter on this path and the numbers drop off hugely so less competition for beds ...
You should be okay come mid-June ... but for peace of mind you might want to drop in to one of the many very helpful «offices de tourisme» along the Way and ask them how busy things are ... and ... if you should reserve ahead🤔
booking / reserving ahead on the Via Podiensis is just how it is done ... if you want to be sure of getting an evening meal and a bed for the night esp. in the busy months ...
Bonjour Andrew,
I hope that you might have had some luck reserving accommodations in recent hours, since your original post. As a courtesy, I would definitely be writing your reservation requests, i.e. une demande de reservation in french [using a translation app such as DeepL or Google...
As of earlier this year the path out of Le Puy-en-Velay [at the very start of the Via Podiensis] will also start to change in an effort by the mairie to make the Way safer ... I understand that the first stage of this project is in the process of being implemented ...
Very unusual for this to happen [rerouting due to newly-opened gîte] ... the trails and the waymarking is maintained by the local volunteer members of the FFRP [hiking federation of France] and its various divisions ... involvement of the local mairie and the mayor is incidental unless that...
I have walked this section a good number of times since 2014 ... very few, if any, changes to the path / route in that time [between Le Puy-en-Velay and Conques] ... my photos confirm will that ...
MMD is generally more up-to-date than gronze which I note still lists some [but not many] accommodations that are no longer open ... ditto with some of the other apps where lodging information is out-of-date / inaccurate ...
You should be fine esp. as you have accessed Dave Whitson’s excellent and comprehensive spreadsheet of accommodation and services [which I might add is updated almost every day so not a static file] ... that and Mapy.cz will see you through ... waymarking is generally excellent unless you walk...
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