10 Days on Camino Le Puy - which section should we walk?

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DugganMi

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• Jun 17, 2015

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Hello - my wife and I only have 10 days in July to walk the CLP, which segments would you recommend. We prefer small villages over big urbain centres and would like to walk an average of about 25K/day. Last year we walked the CF from Leon to SDC.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Mike

 

gavin01

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• Jun 17, 2015

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Easy answer, start in Le Puy and aim for Figeac. I am 8 days into my walk and have just reached Conques. If you want to see pictures of my progress I'm blogging my journey on www.gavineyre.com

 

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• Jun 17, 2015

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DugganMi

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• Jun 17, 2015

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gavin01 said:

Easy answer, start in Le Puy and aim for Figeac. I am 8 days into my walk and have just reached Conques. If you want to see pictures of my progress I'm blogging my journey on www.gavineyre.com

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Thanks Gavin for the info and I have indeed been following your blogs. Keep posting those pics....Awsome

 

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DugganMi

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• Jun 17, 2015

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Now that sounds like a plan, would you have any accomodations to recommend or to avoid?

 

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• Jun 17, 2015

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DugganMi said:

would you have any accomodations to recommend

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Purchase a Miam Miam Dodo, and look at the choices. I pretty much stay in the gite d'etape facilities, but have found some very nice private gites and chambres d'hote. MMD will tell you which ones have English, if that is important to you.

http://www.amazon.fr/dp/291644646X/

 

gavin01

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• Jun 17, 2015

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This isn't from personal knowledge, but my french buddies on the Camino say avoid Decazeville. We've all booked in at the Bio Gite la Vita e Bella 4 kms further in Livinac le-Haut.

 

rhmocha

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• Jun 17, 2015

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gavin01 said:

This isn't from personal knowledge, but my french buddies on the Camino say avoid Decazeville. We've all booked in at the Bio Gite la Vita e Bella 4 kms further in Livinac le-Haut.

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Hi Gavin! I'm enjoying your blog and it's bringing back lots of great memories from last September. You will like Bio Gite in Livinhac - the owner, Andreas is such a nice man, and while he was cooking us a delicious pasta dinner, he had wonderful music playing in the kitchen. We also avoided Decazeville and from comments we heard from other pilgrims, it was a good decision!
Bon Chemin!
Linda

 

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• Jun 17, 2015

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gavin01 said:

avoid Decazeville

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Les Volets Bleu is very nice; cook your own food.

 

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• Jun 18, 2015

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Absolutely - Le Puy to Figeac in a heartbeat!

 

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• Jun 20, 2015

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DugganMi said:

Hello - my wife and I only have 10 days in July to walk the CLP, which segments would you recommend. We prefer small villages over big urbain centres and would like to walk an average of about 25K/day. Last year we walked the CF from Leon to SDC.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Mike

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Le Puy to as far as you can go...

 

sharon w

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• Jun 21, 2015

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I would recommend staying in Conques as there is a special service in the Abbey in the evening. When we were there in 2012, one of the monks also performed a re-enactment of the death of St Foy after dinner, outside the Abbey. He also explained the symbols on the door. It was a wonderful evening and ended with a sound and light show in the Abbey to the sound of "the House of the Rising Sun" on the organ!!
Sharon