Eddiebee
Eddiebee
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances SJPDP to SDC May & June 2017
Thank you to everyone who provided answers to my earlier posting. The answers about food were most interesting. I am afraid that I might try to eat my way across Spain. I have a few more questions for you more experienced pilgrims.
I am booked for two nights at St Jean Pied de Port. I have heard so much about both routes to Roncesvalles that I want to walk both. Since I am booked in SJPdP for May 16 & 17 and at Orisson on the 18th, I was thinking about walking the lower route on the 17th and getting a taxi back in time for the evening meal at Beilari. Is this a foolish idea? Can the lower route be walked in 6 hours? Is there a safe place to leave my backpack so that I could walk that day with only a sandwich and a couple of bottles of water?
I have been told that American Express is not widely accepted? Is MasterCard more accepted? How much cash should I carry at one time? Is it true that the Camino is mostly a small bill cash economy?
Are there places where water is not as available? I have a 2 liter water reservoir. Should I keep it full all the time? It weighs 5 pounds full. I would like to carry it half full most of the time unless that would not be a good idea.
Thanks in advance. I leave for Madrid two weeks from today.
Buen Camino,
Ed
I am booked for two nights at St Jean Pied de Port. I have heard so much about both routes to Roncesvalles that I want to walk both. Since I am booked in SJPdP for May 16 & 17 and at Orisson on the 18th, I was thinking about walking the lower route on the 17th and getting a taxi back in time for the evening meal at Beilari. Is this a foolish idea? Can the lower route be walked in 6 hours? Is there a safe place to leave my backpack so that I could walk that day with only a sandwich and a couple of bottles of water?
I have been told that American Express is not widely accepted? Is MasterCard more accepted? How much cash should I carry at one time? Is it true that the Camino is mostly a small bill cash economy?
Are there places where water is not as available? I have a 2 liter water reservoir. Should I keep it full all the time? It weighs 5 pounds full. I would like to carry it half full most of the time unless that would not be a good idea.
Thanks in advance. I leave for Madrid two weeks from today.
Buen Camino,
Ed