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  1. TMcA

    Suggestions for walks in France accessible by bus or train

    Based on just a little experience, my wife and I have found that areas in rural France are readily accessible by public transportation. We reached an isolated spot on the Via Podiensis (the Le Puy route) via train and bus. The website <<Rome2rio >> can help you verify this. If you wish to have...
  2. TMcA

    SJPdP one night or two?

    As @OzAnnie suggested, whether or not you have visited Paris before would be key to my decision if I were doing the planning. It has a lot to offer and a lot of great walking. So what I have done, make that what my wife and I have done multiple times, is stay a night or two near Gare...
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    Return To Canada after Camino

    Good advice already about Air Transat. Porto is a delightful small city and worth a visit. Madrid is bigger but with two great museums. We've returned from both. If you park long term in Montreal, I wouldn't park at the airport hotels. Theft of late model SUVs and high end cars does take place...
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    US to Paris (CDG) to Pamplona?

    We took the TGV from Paris to the end of the line at Hendaye. Then a cab (we could have walked) from Hendaye to a small shopping center in Irun. In front of the shopping center there was a bus stop. We had a meal in a resto in the shopping center while waiting for the bus. The bus arrived and we...
  5. TMcA

    Booking train

    Trainline also my choice for booking trains.
  6. TMcA

    Booking tickets on the Renfe site

    Another vote for Trainline. My experiences with them are more than 5 years old, but I have used them multiple times. They answer emails written in English promptly. I began usuing Trainline after encountering the same issues with my US credit card - wouldn't work. Tried again, wouldn't work...
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    Travel from Canada to Porto

    I fly out of Montreal and usually use Air Transat. It is my sense that their prices are a bit lower than Air Canada or Air France. They fly directly to Porto from Montreal. You can also buy a multi-city ticket without additional cost enabling you to fly into Porto and to return from Madrid (or...
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    Travel Route, Toronto Canada to Irun

    Cheapest way for you is likely to be Toronto - Paris and then TGV (train) to Hendaye. Then walk to Irun. Train we took left from Gare Montparnasse in Paris and we spent a day or two in Paris before heading south. Hendaye is on the border with Irun. Public transport is available from the train...
  9. TMcA

    Rail Europe

    My perception of Rail Europe, going back 7-10 years, is that it is (a lot?) more expensive than a direct booking. I started using Capitaine Train (now Trainline) when booking direct after RENFE became nearly impossible because I couldn't use a European credit card. (My U.S. VISA wasn't accepted...
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    bordeaux to SJPP

    If you wind up taking the train to Bayonne and then on to SJdPP, the tram in town goes out to the railroad station.
  11. TMcA

    Advice on getting from Pamplona to St. Jean Pied de Port

    The logistics of the bus to SJdPP from Pamplona and the need to waste a day in order to get that bus made us decide to just start walking from Pamplona. We never regretted it.
  12. TMcA

    Poles & Backpack - to check or not to check...

    If the service is available at your departure airport, you can consider having your backpack with poles inside or attached wrapped in plastic (emballage is the French word for this), and then check the wrapped totality of your possessions. I have done this multiple times at the Montreal airport...
  13. TMcA

    Travelling from Biarritz to Pamplona

    I had trouble about`6 years ago obtaining bus schedule and bus stop location for Irun - Pamplona. (We planned on taking the Ouigo train to Hendaye from Paris.) The tourist office in Pamplona was able to furnish the bus schedule and the precise spot to board the bus (in front of a shopping center...
  14. TMcA

    Camino Frances-Finally

    Understanding that you are talking about the 8:10 train from the station at CDG, I would say you probably will not make it. However, you might if: your flight arrives on time and you promptly deplane you have no checked luggage to collect the lines at Immigration are short and move very quickly...
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    Madrid Airport to Atocha Station

    Very easy to find. Signage is excellent because as is the case in may European airports, people use public transport to go to the airport. On international flights from North America, I have always arrived, I believe, at Terminal 4. In that terminal you will find a tourist information desk...
  16. TMcA

    Madrid Airport to Atocha Station

    Thanks for saying this. Many people opt for the bus because of its ease - just hop on at Terminal 4 and you can even buy your ticket there. But the Cercanias shuttle/transfer is not that complicated and for me a train ride to Pamplona beats the bus hands down. Plus I like your plan to rest the...
  17. TMcA

    Getting to MAD Airport

    Can't advise you about the hotel. Madrid, like most large European cities, offers excellent public transportation to and from the airport. Check out the site below in which I used your possible hotel as the starting point to get to MAD. I usually request that hotel staff "coach me up" on how...
  18. TMcA

    Need Help with Iberia

    @peregrina2000 always offers excellent advice, so if you booked through American try her suggestion first. If not... I recently was driven crazy about my U.S. cell phone bill. I finally made an end run -an official complaint through the Federal Trade Commission website. Within 24 hours skilled...
  19. TMcA

    Traveling from Barcelona to SJPdP by Train

    It would greatly simplify your itinerary to just start in Pamplona. This is what my wife and I did on our first Camino. You could then use the extra days to walk to Finisterre. Perhaps like you, I originally thought that SJdPP was somehow the designated starting point for the Camino Francés...
  20. TMcA

    Getting from Madrid airport to train station for trip to León

    I like the train much better bc the seating is more comfortable for me (6' and 190 lbs) and I can get up and stretch. Also easy to get to toilet. Worth the very minor hassle of taking the Cercanías. For me, anyway. Buen Camino.

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