Jennifer J
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2014, 2018
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Hi, Jen,I walked the Camino in 2014 with 2 off my daughters and had wonderful time/experience. My grandson had been begging to go. If i decide to take him he would be 10/11. Has anyone walked with child/ren?
Thank you
Jen
That will be the experience of a lifetime for both of you. One very envious pilgrim over hereThank you. He has been hiking for years and backpacking the last couple of years. He carries his water, bag, and some food. I think we are good to go. I'm so excited.
Let the planning begin!!!!!
Also check @Kiwi-family threads. 5 kids altogether if I remember well and quite an adventure
My grandson had been begging to go. If i decide to take him he would be 10/11. Has anyone walked with child/ren?
Hi Jen,
We walked from Sarria to Santiago with our 10 and 12 year olds 2 years ago and they loved it so much we started in SJPDP last year.
There's a wealth of information and help on this and other forums and some very useful blogs from previous camino families.
Suffice to say that our experience was wonderfully positive and rewarding all round. The children, on the whole, dictated the pace (which was usually around 20km per day) and we usually booked our accommodation ahead. As one pays per bunk in the albergues we found that private rooms, cheap pensions and casas rurales were often around the same price as a private albergue and allowed us more flexibility and obviously privacy, the downside of solely doing that is that you miss out on the communal side of the albergues.
We would usually always allow a good time for lunch and often added a cafe drink stop if we were flagging. However, on the whole the kids were usually in a better state than us at the end of the day.
Buen Camino
Thank you. I will look there. We want to go for one month. Even Airbnb accommodations will really add up. Is it possible to combine camping with Airbnb stays? Maybe 50% camping and 50% paid accommodation. If so, which route is most accommodating to camping and inexpensive accommodations?In Madrid, Zamora (Vdlp) and Sarría this year, I used Airbnb to find accommodation. There were three of us so it made sense to rent a whole apartment overnight. For a family of 6 even more so. They all had good, fully equipped kitchens and washing machines.
I've walked with five of my six children, we did about 1,100 miles from Le Puy to the coast of Spain and slept outside about 80 percent of the time. It took us three months to the day.I walked the Camino in 2014 with 2 off my daughters and had wonderful time/experience. My grandson had been begging to go. If i decide to take him he would be 10/11. Has anyone walked with child/ren?
Thank you
Jen
I walked the Camino in 2014 with 2 off my daughters and had wonderful time/experience. My grandson had been begging to go. If i decide to take him he would be 10/11. Has anyone walked with child/ren?
Thank you
Jen
HI. Do you have a blog or something about your experience hiking the Camino with your family? My family of 7 are planning to do it in 2021 and I would love your insight. ThanksWhere did you find your private rooms, pensions and casas rurales? Did you book them ahead on a particular website or app? My family of 6 is hiking the Camino June of 2018 for as long as we can and want to find the cheapest route for accommodation. Thank you!
To add to all the things you have to consider note that 2021 is a Holy Year and the caminos will likely be very crowded. That would make it very difficult to find accommodation for so many.HI. Do you have a blog or something about your experience hiking the Camino with your family? My family of 7 are planning to do it in 2021 and I would love your insight. Thanks
See @t2andreo post elsewhere - projected figures for 2021 . . . 650,000 - maybe go in 2020 or 2022?To add to all the things you have to consider note that 2021 is a Holy Year and the caminos will likely be very crowded. That would make it very difficult to find accommodation for so many.
I'm just noticing this post, I apologize.My daughter and I completed the Frances Camino in June and July. It took us 41 days from SJDP to Santiago. She almost never complained, and walked the entire stretch. My daughter was nine on the trail and turned ten the day after we finished. One thing that helped was sending her bag forward. I sent it on about the ten or twelve hardest days. She was also packed light, so the days she did carry it were so difficult.
I would not have tried this if she hadn't already been on dozens and dozens of long-ish day hikes and a handful of overnight backpacking trips. I had my daughter do daily squats, lunges, pushups, and a 1.5 mile walk with a heavier backpack as her training for about two months before she left. Probably the only physically difficult time for her was that last 3.5 or so KM descent coming down the mountain into Roncesvalles in the pouring rain. I saw the adults (including myself) were struggling on that stretch too.
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