- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances (2013)
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A big thank you to all for your responses. It's something to work towards now, besides continuing my lecciones de Español.
Another thing I missed while on Camino was walking under the full moon. There was a full moon the night I spent in Villar de Mazarife, but the weather was dreadful so even going outside in the middle of the night would have been useless. I now see that there's to be a full moon on May 29th next year. If I plan my affairs properly (the weather will cooperate of course) I could have my saunter in the moonlight while I'm on the meseta. What a treat that would be!! @steve 217 says above "if you are sensible" .... Yes, I am!!! .... so it is important to plan these things right.
woaah... hope you can capture great full moon photo...makes me excited wait then...aja!here's to be a full moon on May 29th next year
"It is wonderful up there, so much closer to Heaven that at times, I felt I was being granted a brief visit."Enjoy the Route Napolean, should this become part of your Itenerary. It is wonderful up there, so much closer to Heaven that at times, I felt I was being granted a brief visit.
Too true!Some of us who are not so fit did feel very close to Heaven. But yes, it is glorious.
Hi all. Hoping you can help here. You see, May 2018 just may find me on the other side of the pond and I'm trying to see what I can do re getting back to the Camino while I'm over there.
When I walked the Francés in 2013 - starting in SJPP - I made it to Villalcazar de Sirga but could walk no further due to tendinitis. From there I had to taxi to Carrion de los Condes, then I bused to León. Long story short, I eventually made it from León to Santiago on foot, but I've always regretted missing so much of the meseta, and I'd like to get back to see what I missed by not walking. (I know there are those who will say that I didn't miss anything, but I'm not sure I will agree with you.) Are there alternative routes which would give me the same meseta experience? I'm not sure why I'm even asking this because part of me says just go back and walk from Villalcazar to León. Should I expect a bed race in May on that stretch of the Francés?
And will people frown upon me for taking up a bed if I were not planning to walk all the way to Santiago? I will likely seek out private accommodation.
I'd also like to try walking the Route Napoleon. I have no regrets having gone the Valcarlos route; the valley was beautiful and we had a blinding blizzard between Valcarlos and Roncesvalles just to add some excitement, but I'd love to be on the Napoleon in good weather.
Thank you for all suggestions.
I would start by asking your question on the Camino Madrid forum.Thank you again, fellow members, for all your earlier suggestions. My hoped for May 2018 camino - when I wanted to go back and walk the stretches of the Francés that I had to miss in 2013 - did not materialize, and I am now keeping my fingers crossed that I can start walking again mid-September 2019. My long held dream of going back to walk the Route Napoleón has to be shelved, unfortunately, as even I cannot justify the logistics in time and money of getting to SJPP to walk that little patch of the Pyrenees when there are so many other more easily accessible routes to choose from. I have open before me Ivar's map, Caminos de Santiago en la Península Ibérica and am seriously considering @Kanga's earlier suggestion of the Camino Madrid. I think that will give me a part of the meseta that I am looking for, plus lots more.
I am not very tech savvy, however, I have checked gronze.com and wisepilgrim, plus this forum, and am not having much success on getting info on the Camino Madrid. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be most grateful.
Thank you so much! I was looking for such a one, and now I think I see where it was. No doubt I’ll find all the info I need right there.I would start by asking your question on the Camino Madrid forum.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/forums/camino-de-madrid.45/
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