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    help with route from Paris, I start on October 23rd

    Well, if you walk via Orleans you get to go past the grand chateaus, and I think a lot of the way is on a gravel bike path along the Loire that's pretty easy to follow. However, I haven't walked that route, so I don't have any personal input. I wanted to visit Chartres again, so that's the way...
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    help with route from Paris, I start on October 23rd

    I walked the variant that goes from Paris via Chartres and there was a wonderful glossy booklet available for the Chemin á velo as far as Tours, with very good maps and info about the facilities available along the way. I'm sure there must be an equivalent one for the main route via Orleans. All...
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    Visa Overstay

    Not exactly. In your example you would still only have 30 days when you return to the Schengen group. You would still have been in Schengen for 60 of the allowed 90 days. You would need to leave for 180 days to reset the time. The easiest way is to do what many of us have to do and split your...
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    (New member!) How long would it take to walk from Paris to Santiago?

    Yes, domigee, I found it so sad to see the bread van coming around instead of having a local bakery anymore. And those were not small villages, either, for the most part.
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    (New member!) How long would it take to walk from Paris to Santiago?

    BTW, there is a whole subforum about walking from Paris here: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/forums/the-tours-route.47/
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    (New member!) How long would it take to walk from Paris to Santiago?

    The Schengen rules give us 90 days total in the Schengen area, then you have to leave for 180 days before you can return to any country in the group. There really isn't any easy visa extension available for people from the US, and if you get caught overstaying you may be banned from returning...
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    (New member!) How long would it take to walk from Paris to Santiago?

    This is kind of true, but it depends. The French say this route is "plat, plat, plat," but as a Floridian I can tell you the French don't know plat. :) It was a good week before we were not sore as the dickens by the end of the day from the constant long ups and downs, even if they are very...
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    (New member!) How long would it take to walk from Paris to Santiago?

    You also need to factor in the fact that on much of the route from Paris you will be following the GR routes, which are anything but straightforward. They wind around a lot. Of course, you can make up your own route, too, but accommodations/food can be a problem. Also, you don't have much of...
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    For our eu cousins and fellow perriginas/os sun screen recommendation

    Another vote for La Roche-Posay. (I'm in the US but I first found it in France.)
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    Medicines ...

    I traveled last fall with both vials of medicine and syringes and nobody at the airport even asked to examine them. Just be sure you have an official pharmacy label and container, at least till you get to Europe. Then you can repack it smaller if you want. ETA I was walking in France rather...
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    Duffel bag for air travel

    Like Durham Parish I use an ultrasil duffel for my backpack on planes (although I've never had to check it). It takes up almost no room in my pack and when I'm not on the camino it makes a great weekend suitcase. They are expensive, though.
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    How steep is steep?

    Yeah, also from flat, flat FL here. We walked the voie de tours from Paris and even though those are very mild hills, the constant up and down-ness of the terrain really told on us the first few days. If you are accustomed to even gentle hills (and sorry, Brussels has some pretty steep hills to...
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    Walking from Notre Dame in Paris to SJPDP

    https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/forums/the-tours-route.47/
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    When does it get really busy

    Credentials or compostelas, spursfan?
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    where to start a few days before SJPP?

    Maybe the Voie de la Nive from Bayonne? I think there are few folks here who've walked it. Kiwi-Family, maybe?
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    A sad sign on the door at Grañon

    Yeah, I'm walking the Voie de Tours next week and the latest update to the LePere list of hebergements there crosses off a surprising number of places that were either donativo gites or people who were willing to receive pilgrims into their homes, with the note that it's because of all the...
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    Finances on Camino Frances

    You have to use your bank's site; you mean secure networks. No network that many strangers are also signed into is secure. Period. If you have a smartphone, your own data connection would be the most secure way to do this. Hotel wifi is NEVER secure. EDIT If you don't have a smartphone or...
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    Have been doing it wrong all these years

    Are there any that don't do this? I couldn't help noticing, for instance, that Camino Ways says this about the section of the Voie de Tours that runs through les Landes: Moreover, if you feel tired and need a rest, you often will find bars and restaurants along the way. Which sure was news...
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    Bordeaux to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

    How good a walker are you? There are some mighty long stages right away in the Bordeaux to St Jean part of the Voie de Tours (because there just aren't that many places to stop or get provisions en route--it's nothing like the Camino Frances in that respect). I'll be walking from Paris in...
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    Weight loss while doing the Camino?

    https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/loss-of-body-weight.3652/

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