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Cahors - St. Jean Pied du PortAfter the camino Frances, I decided to walk from Le Puy en Velay - Cahors last year.. Now I'm wondering if I would like to finish it. I like to meet people on the way. I like to walk alone, but have the company of other walkers to have a short of long talk with at gives, or on the way.. I'm a bit afraid that the amount of people walking there is to few? I should be walking there at the end of july/start august.. Any experiences??
Wow, how does that happen? A post purporting to be from me is not!
That was just two quotes upon each other. I have now deleted it.The one that reads
"After the Frances I decided to walk..." Etc. you can see the next post where the identical message is quoted as being from another author.
Cahors - St. Jean Pied du Port
My wife and I are planning to start out from Le Puy early in May this year, 2014. Any thoughts on that journey? We're like to stay in penions, small 'typico' hotels or B and B type accommodation and are wondering about the availability of that along the Le Puy--Cahors section.
I can highly recommend the gite Violia
Costs for lodging and meals are indeed higher in France than in Spain.Is it me, or is the cost for lodging much more expensive along this route than it is in Spain on the Camino Frances?? I seem to see a lot over 20Euros.
Absolutely, but it is a totally different experience, from what I've heard. Think about Spain as the Yough Hostel teenage trip, the walks in France more B&B, deluxe in some places. Must be that the pilgrim meal is either non-existing or good ;0)Is it me, or is the cost for lodging much more expensive along this route than it is in Spain on the Camino Frances?? I seem to see a lot over 20Euros.
Is it me, or is the cost for lodging much more expensive along this route than it is in Spain on the Camino Frances?? I seem to see a lot over 20Euros.
Cost is higher- but often when you stay in a private gite the cost includes dinner and breakfast as well as your bed, and the dinner is mostly very good. Also, you get to eat with others staying in the gite which can often be a very enjoyable time. The standard of accommodation- space, showers, lounge areas etc- in French gites generally is very good as well.
Margaret
Yep ThornleyYOU SHOULD KNOW MARGARET ..........lol
Yep Thornley
Actually Anitam, sorry I never actually replied to your initial query.... Friends who have a gite in Moissac- 3-4 days walk after Cahors- say that July/August are relatively quiet months for them- partly because of the heat, and partly because the French walkers tend to be occupied with family activities in the school summer holidays. It gets busy again for them in September.
Margaret
I have to respectfully disagree!The standard of accommodation- space, showers, lounge areas etc- in French gites generally is very good as well.
Thanks Margaret!! I'm looking to do about 2 weeks (did the Frances last year in 26 days, but don't have that much time this time aroundCost is higher- but often when you stay in a private gite the cost includes dinner and breakfast as well as your bed, and the dinner is mostly very good. Also, you get to eat with others staying in the gite which can often be a very enjoyable time. The standard of accommodation- space, showers, lounge areas etc- in French gites generally is very good as well.
Margaret
Hi Dan,I think that finishing at SJPDP is kinda special, but maybe that two-week route before SJPDP in France is not the best? Any other sugeestion with a starting point and a interesting finishing point? Dan
Thanks Margaret!! I'm looking to do about 2 weeks (did the Frances last year in 26 days, but don't have that much time this time around( ... But I'd like to do something special as well and thought about a new route - this is why I thought about France. I think that finishing at SJPDP is kinda special, but maybe that two-week route before SJPDP in France is not the best? Any other sugeestion with a starting point and a interesting finishing point?
Thanks a bunch!!
Dan
Wow, thanks for this info I appreciate it. That's the kind of info I wanted to hear. That does seem like a plan. I do walk fast, but mainly because I have a time constraint. Last year my 800km in 26 days wasn't that bad though. But I do want to take a bit more my time for my next - averaged 31km a day last time, but would rather go around 25km this time. Someone also suggested Geneva to LePuy - what do you think about that?? Thanks again and have a wonderful day! DanHi Dan,
To be honest, I wouldn't aim to finish in SJPP. It's a very small town, and though I actually liked it and had a rest day there, it's more of a stop along the way than a finishing point. My suggestion instead would be to start at Le-Puy-en-Velay, and walk for as long as you have the time. The most dramatic landscapes on the Le Puy route are at this end of the route. When you are getting near the end of the time you have, you could start thinking about your options for getting to a bigger place to get off the route again. (Smaller places on the Le Puy route don't tend to have the same transport options as you often find in Spain.) You seem to be a faster than average walker, so I think it's hard to predict exactly how far you would get, but possibly Figeac or even Cahors, and these are larger places with more public transport options.
Margaret
Hi Dan ,
You will not be sorry if you start in Le Puy.
[ 1 ] 200km [ plus or minus 10km] = Conques..........church @ 11.00am is a great feeling as this stop is just as big as STJPDP and may i say a more famous town. Wonderful stop , majority of pilgrims will stop here and its has a very big pilgrim feeling.
[ 2 ] 50km to Figeac and transport if running out of time
[ 3 ] 90km to Cahors , great town to relax .
Thats 340km and Cahors has all the transport you need to return home.
You will find Le Puy harder than Frances and seeing Falcon has not answered my earlier post and disagreed more beautiful , especially the section to Conques.
As Margaret has said earlier when you walk the GR65 St Jean is just a stop over.It has a great feeling especially as all of us completed Frances first but as we complete different ways it really is just a stopover and sometimes not even that if going via Valcarlos which is a town we love.
After you walk Le Puy , completely, this might be the case with St Jean Pied de Port.
I say this knowing many turn left @ Ostabat and go over the mountain much higher than StJ @ Samport and turn up @ Puente
l' Reina
Very doable the 340km and it will not disappoint.
I haven't walked Geneva- Le Puy, though I would still be inclined to walk the Le Puy route first. One thing you need to be aware of with routes like those from Geneva or Cluny (which I have walked) is that your experience would be far more solitary.
If you didn't get quite as far as Figeac, you are likely to get as far as Conques in your available time. It is possible to get taxis out of there that are not too expensive to connect with transport to Paris or south, though you might not have a 'bus' option as it's school holidays.
Margaret
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