- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances 2022
I'm thinking about breaking a Camino Frances into two parts, and I would find some feedback valuable.
This is because I'm supposed to meet some family in Tarifa in SW Spain from April 5 to April 9. I'll be in the south of Spain starting February 19.
Here are my choices:
1. Start the Camino from SJPP about April 10 (W) or 11(Th)
Advantages:
More things are open.
The weather is a little nicer.
Disadvantage:
May arrive in Pamplona on the weekend.
More possibility of having to deal with a bed race, especially towards the end.
2. Start the Camino from SJPP on March 20. But on April 4 bus and train down to Tarifa ( I will not fly) then come back and restart my Camino about April 10 or 11th (probably near Burgos).
Advantages:
Rest my body.
Less possibility of bed race.
More cool days for walking.
Easter while on the Camino!
Disadvantages:
Probably will lose any Camino family I have developed.
No option for the Napoleon route.
Possibility for worse weather.
Easter on the Camino may create lodging issues.
This will be my second Camino Frances, but the first one I ended up completing on a bicycle due to injury and I want to make another attempt to finish it on foot.
Once I wrote this all out, it seems that breaking up the Camino option is not worth the trouble. Except that, I really, really want to avoid a bed race.
But I'd still love to get some feedback, I was going to start making some bookings this weekend.
This is because I'm supposed to meet some family in Tarifa in SW Spain from April 5 to April 9. I'll be in the south of Spain starting February 19.
Here are my choices:
1. Start the Camino from SJPP about April 10 (W) or 11(Th)
Advantages:
More things are open.
The weather is a little nicer.
Disadvantage:
May arrive in Pamplona on the weekend.
More possibility of having to deal with a bed race, especially towards the end.
2. Start the Camino from SJPP on March 20. But on April 4 bus and train down to Tarifa ( I will not fly) then come back and restart my Camino about April 10 or 11th (probably near Burgos).
Advantages:
Rest my body.
Less possibility of bed race.
More cool days for walking.
Easter while on the Camino!
Disadvantages:
Probably will lose any Camino family I have developed.
No option for the Napoleon route.
Possibility for worse weather.
Easter on the Camino may create lodging issues.
This will be my second Camino Frances, but the first one I ended up completing on a bicycle due to injury and I want to make another attempt to finish it on foot.
Once I wrote this all out, it seems that breaking up the Camino option is not worth the trouble. Except that, I really, really want to avoid a bed race.
But I'd still love to get some feedback, I was going to start making some bookings this weekend.
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