Camino Frances ideas!

[Birdielein]

Hi All!

As some of you might know, I was doing a big WWI trek this september, but due to some spiralling costs, and some other disasters like being unable to take six weeks off work as a freelancer and still eat, it would appear I have to postpone my WWI trek to April. I had a huge think about it last night... (on that really exciting 3 hours sleep I had) and decided that it came down to changing my trip.

So I am going to do 4 weeks of the Camino de Santiago instead, which one can do for 25E a day comfortably, instead of my trip which was coming in at 65 on average. I am pretty gutted about it, but at the same time, doing the camino is really good training and and a pretty damn awesome second choice.

But the new issue is... I have about 4 weeks (slightly less) of Camino time... so where would you start for a comfortable walk?

Help! Help! Luckily I have all the gear, just need some starting tips!

 

[Deleted member 3000]

Pick five to six hundred kilometers from here:

http://www.godesalco.com/plan/frances

Buen camino.

 

[Al the optimist]

Where you start rather depends on where you can travel to easily/with minimal cost? Pamploma maybe? (Then you will climb the Alto del Perdon on the first day, in my personal opinion a camino highlight and not something to miss)). Most guides say 24 days from there to SDC. Would that give you enough time to get to Pamploma and then back from SDC?

 

[Birdielein]

That might! I am flying into Madrid, and then will train to my starting point from there.

 

[Birdielein]

I am kind of a biiiig girl, so I don't want to make it tooooo gruelling. I am thinking of starting in Burgos. That is 500, and so 20 kms per day. I know I can do that. And if I do more, maybe I can continue on to Muxia!