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Thanks again for all the thoughts. Once again I feel drawn to go off and give it a go. There will never be enough time and money for this sort of thing but it is worth making a start - and worth remembering the GR 65.
Nope. I will have a week in October) to walk about between Carcassonne and the Pyrenees to get the feel of it as far as accommodation might fit GR 78. ( http://www.gr-infos.com/en/gr78a.htm) I would like to put my holiday together in a four week block next summer and plan an "exact" route...
Cheers. I will fit that in. This is shaping up.
Monasteries/retreats would be interesting too!
I suspect I will only get as far as I get and go back again :-)
Plenty to plan over the winter.
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Thank you for your direction. I will have a look at that thread. No, I had forgotten about couchsurfing. I had tbought it had gone commercial. Would priests accept " non-catholics" knocking on their doors begging a floor?
I suppose there is the saying "Knock and it shall be openned...
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Is there cheap accommodation between Carcassonne and St. Jean? Like the Refugio hosels? It looks like a good starting point but it seems most campsites close at the end of September and wild camping or bivvouacing us only allowed inside the Pyrenees National Park ( 9pm-9am, if an hours...
Looks like a nice enough walk given that flights to Carcisonne look quite cheap.
http://www.csj.org.uk/planning-your-pilgrimage/routes-to-santiago/the-routes-today/the-pyrenean-foothills-route/
Thanks for the profile.
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Thanks for all the replies - and all genuine and encouraging too!
It seems I would miss it if I just walked past in a White Rabbit rush so I will walk for the sake of walking rather than purely building the miles up then just see how far I get and hope to get back to it another time if...
It is now coming on for ten years since I had been walking mindfully regularly and I heard of the Camino first when I meet someone who had just walked it and then when a travel writing book about it popped up in front of me. It is still on my mind to give it a go myself and now seems a good...
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