- Time of past OR future Camino
- Olvidado/San Salvador/Primitivo 2019
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@trecile would like an alternative to the InviernoWalk back from Cacabelos on the Francés to Ponferrada and walk the Invierno?
Oops! Bad reading comprehension on my part!@trecile would like an alternative to the Invierno
Hi peregrina2000, lovely to hear from you again. Lots of great suggestions but I should have made my wishes clearer! I want to continue onto SdC but just walk on from the end of the Olvidado. I did not expect there to be a readymade and established camino. Thinking of trying to find a route from Villafranca de Bierzo to Lugo. Then use the Camino Verde. I have been hunting on wikiloc but nothing jumps out at the moment. It is just a wish at the moment to avoid the crowds!Pulling out my handy dandy IGN map (best Camino map EVER — looks like Ivar is almost out of them again!), I’m sure @LT and @Mike know there’s nothing contiguous. So transport is going to be necessary.
Looking at the caminos up in that neck of the woods, though, I think there are a few to entice you. I walked the Torres/Geira last year and (Salamanca - Braga - Santiago) and either half would be a wonderful walk. But very few albergues. How about the ZAmorano-Portugués from Zamora through Bragança and then back to Spain in Verín? The Castellano-Lebañiego isn’t on the map (though the Blendios looks like it might be a close cousin), but here is some info. It goes from Palencia-Fromista-up through Monasterio de Liébano (and it’s a holy year for them, so that might be very nice).
And one last thought — the Allerano, from León/La Robla to Oviedo, so this might be the easiest to get to. Ender and Co. are in the process of marking it, accommodation may be shaky, but if anyone wants to walk this route, I can contact him and see what the status is as of today.
What a lovely dilemma to have! Would love to hear what you decide.
I don’t know if you have the premium version of Wikiloc and use their map feature, but it’s great. You put a circle around Villafranca and one around Lugo and see what pops up to connect them.Thinking of trying to find a route from Villafranca de Bierzo to Lugo.
Thank you very much for the info. I have used those features before and will renew my membership to wikiloc when it is nearer my intended departure time and I want to do some detailed planning. The ones you posted look like bike tracks as the bits I looked at seem to follow the road, and the second one has some very suspicious straight lines!I don’t know if you have the premium version of Wikiloc and use their map feature, but it’s great. You put a circle around Villafranca and one around Lugo and see what pops up to connect them.
Here are the tracks of someone who walked from Médulas to Lugo, so you could intersect with that easily.
Las Médulas - Lugo
Las Médulas - Lugo Hiking trail in Las Médulas, Castilla y León (España). Download its GPS track and follow the route on a map. Record your own itinerary from the Wikiloc app, upload the trail and share it with the community.www.wikiloc.com
The total time is listed as several hours, for 122 kms, so there may be something off here. These may actually not be walking tracks.
One from Ponferrada to Lugo
Ponferrada - Santiago de Compostela
Ponferrada - Santiago de Compostela Hiking trail in Ponferrada, Castilla y León (España). Download its GPS track and follow the route on a map. Record your own itinerary from the Wikiloc app, upload the trail and share it with the community.www.wikiloc.com
This second one doesn’t look like a walking track, but the first one does, even though they are both listed as ”hiking.”
I have always found that writing questions to the authors of tracks on wikiloc (there’s a comment section below the actual tracks) produces very quick responses, so you could get a bit more info if these look interesting.
I like the idea as well but that track seems to just follow a main road and has a few suspicious overly straight bits - where they probably forgot to switch their GPS back on.I like the idea of heading to Lugo on that track Laurie posted thet starts in Las Medulas.
A bespoke route sounds just the thing.
There is a new camino going from O Cebreiro to Lugo called Via Kunig. With a track you can also walk it backwards.
Another possibility to avoid the Melide-SdC stretch is to go from the Primitivo indeed to the Norte. You don't need to end up in Arzua, but there are now also alternatives which joines the Frances only at SdC airport, 15kms before SdC.
You can see the VIa Kunig and the alternatives untill the airport at the interactive map at the bottom of this page. You can also download al these tracks you see from this page. Both pages are in Dutch, but with some google translate you will understand. If not, let me know
Thank you for the kudos, Laurie. ❤You not only found a walking route, you found a CAMINO walking route. I never heard of the Via Kunig, but there it is!
No, it's not one of the Dutch cofraternity tracks. But I easily constructed something that looks similar. That said, the Via Künig is a more direct route.VN, if you look at this screen shot, can you find a similar route on your OSM map?
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