Camino Frances Stages Walked 2016

[Former member 60103]

These are the stages I used for the Camino Frances. Loosely based on John Brierley,s 31 day guide. "H" at the end of the day indicates that I had reached the point where sanity demanded a hotel for the night. I planned some stages so as to give the best part of the day over to exploring ie. Burgos and Leon and lastly in A Coruna

Bristol to Bordeaux by air on 2/4/16. Train to St Jean on 3/4 first stamp on that date.

1 4/4/16 St Jean Pied de Port Roncesvalles 23.6
2 5/4 Roncesvalles Larrosoanna 27.3
3 6/4 Larrosoanna Cizur Menor 20.6
4 7/4 Cizur Menor Cirauqui 21.6
5 8/4 Cirauqui Monjardin 20.1
6 9/4 Monjardin Lograno 43.3
7 10/4 Lograno Azofra 35
8 11/4 Azofra Belorado 37.6
9 12/4 Belorado Cardenuela Riopico 36.6
10 13/4 Cardenuela Riopico Burgos 10.1 H
11 14/4 Burgos Hontanas 31.5
12 15/4 Hontanas Itero del Castillo 14.6
13 16/4 Itero del Castillo Poblacion 20.9
14 17/4 Poblacion Carrion 16.7
15 18/4 Carrion Sahagun 39
16 19/4 Sahagun Arcahueja 48.6
17 20/4 Arcahueja Leon 7.5 H
18 21/4 Leon Mazarife 21.3
19 22/4 Mazarife San Justo 24.9
20 23/4 San Justo Astorga 3.6
21 24/4 Astoga Rabanal 20.6
22 25/4 Rabanal Ponferrada 28.8
23 26/4 Ponferrada Trabadelo 37.2
24 27/4 Trabadelo Alto de Polo 27.3
25 28/4 Alto de Polo Samos 21.9
26 29/4 Samos Sarria 8.9
27 30/4 Sarria Hospital 20.3
28 1/5 Hospital Arzua 39
29 2/5 Arzua Santiago (outskirts) 38.4
30 3/5 Santiago (outskirts) Santiago de Compostela 1 716 K
and straight onto;
Camino Finisterre
3/5 Santiago Negreira 20.5
31 4/5 Negreira Santa Marina 19.6
32 5/5 Santa Marina Logoso 14.7
33 6/5 Logoso Cee 11 H
34 7/5 Cee Fisterra 11.9 794.4 Klm Total

I finished off the trip by taking the bus from Finisterre to A Coruna , taking a trip up the Roman Lighthouse and visiting the old quarter before returning to Santiago by train.

Don.

 

[willydp]

A lot of 30k+ days and also very short ones...
Any particular reason to do so or just enjoy the moment?

 

[Former member 60103]

I know it looks a little inconsistent but the short days were mainly so that I could spend time in a place and take a break. The longer day's - some were due to the particular stage I had intended to walk and others were a spur of the moment thing. Some day's I reached my daily objective early and simply carried on walking to the next place, sometimes I simply did not feel like stopping ! I had done a reasonable amount of preparation for that trip so the longer distances were not that much of an issue.
Don.

 

[basquelady]

I know it looks a little inconsistent but the short days were mainly so that I could spend time in a place and take a break. The longer day's - some were due to the particular stage I had intended to walk and others were a spur of the moment thing. Some day's I reached my daily objective early and simply carried on walking to the next place, sometimes I simply did not feel like stopping ! I had done a reasonable amount of preparation for that trip so the longer distances were not that much of an issue.
Don.

Demonstrates the freedom gained by taking each day as it comes, with minimal forward planning.