Greetings Bicigrinos,
Leaving on Monday and have some last (many!) minute questions:
Scrolling through varied posts below, it sounds like some parts of the Frances trail are impassable (or unpleasant) for cyclists, and you are carrying your bike for prolonged periods while navigating stairs etc.. Do any of the veteran bicigrinos have info or itineraries or google map-type sources advising you when you are best served to leave the actual trail and take a road alternative for those sections?
Does anyone have any thoughts on a road alternative to actual camino that parallels it, stops at the same cities, but where you can make better time on your bike--maybe that would involve a camino other than Frances?
On Mar 28/April 1, which from the population charts would indicate is at the start of the high season, or a wee bit before, would a cyclist be better served taking a parallel road route to make better time and use one's bell less?
On the same line of thought, from what I have gleaned, I see there is an app or two on the
camino frances, on the bicigrino site there apparently is a google map, and I found some Trailsmart app in a forum--does anyone have any personal recommendations on what they have used tech-wise on mobile (apps, google maps or maps.me, etc.) if you didn't want to carry a bunch of maps, and ideally, (going to earlier question) something that would show the more bike-friendly road alternatives/work arounds? and (now I'm asking a lot) that would show your current position on the map with that friendly blue dot?
Muchisimas Gracias!