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- Camino francés, verano 2017
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We are walking the Arles Way, beginning next week. I've done other caminos and understand Arles is much less traveled. Is this what you mean by "psychologically difficult"? Or something else?I'd actually suggest starting in Oloron, but walking from there to SJPP rather than through the Somport.
The Somport way is lonelier and some of the sections up from Oloron to the pass can be psychologically difficult (there's no particular physical difficulty, except perhaps in some of the very last few km up to the pass, particularly if you run low on water) -- though the Aragon Way in Spain, especially from Jaca onwards, is very beautiful.
We are walking the Arles Way, beginning next week. I've done other caminos and understand Arles is much less traveled. Is this what you mean by "psychologically difficult"? Or something else?
I'd actually suggest starting in Oloron, but walking from there to SJPP rather than through the Somport.
Probably no more tedious than some parts of the Portugues Camino from Lisbon. I think I can handle that.No, the Way between Oloron and the Somport is simply tedious as such -- unless you enjoy tarmac in the middle & cliffsides left & right ?
The Somport way is lonelier and some of the sections up from Oloron to the pass can be psychologically difficult (there's no particular physical difficulty, except perhaps in some of the very last few km up to the pass, particularly if you run low on water) -- though the Aragon Way in Spain, especially from Jaca onwards, is very beautiful.
No, the Way between Oloron and the Somport is simply tedious as such
I have heard bad things about the path above the river but have no first hand knowledge.
Here are three elevation maps. The first shows the route Jabbapapa recommended from Oloron through Saint Jean (Voie des Piemonts). The second shows the route from Oloron through to Puente la Reina (Voie d'Arles). The third shows the route through France that is the "most popular" (Voie du Puy) which is nothing compared to the Frances.
http://www.chemins-compostelle.com/itineraires/8/la-voie-des-piemonts
http://www.chemins-compostelle.com/itineraires/6/la-voie-d-arles
http://www.chemins-compostelle.com/itineraires/10/la-voie-du-puy-en-velay
It really depends on what you're looking for... the least elevation change vs. the least amount of other walkers. Because I would like to get a couple of days under my belt before tackling the Pyrenees, I am starting in Aroue, France. It is on the Le Puy route and is easily accessible by public bus out of Bayonne. Click on bus 811.
http://transports64.fr/horaires-interurbains?lang=fr
On the Voie du Puy, chances are you'll have a slightly easier time being Frenchless. I think they're getting used to more and more non-French speakers. I've heard the Voie d'Arles is pretty isolated.
Bon chemin!
But the bus through the tunnel to Canfranc does cut out all the elevation change...if going from Oloron cut out some of the elevation (it doesn't, the big slope is 300 meters higher)
No. There is no such thing except getting a Compostela without walking the last 100 km to the Cathedral!Isn't taking a bus cheating?
Seems to me that if you take the bus and lie about it, that would be a type of cheating whoever you lied to. Otherwise, what are the rules that you would be cheating on?Isn't taking a bus cheating?
Isn't taking a bus cheating?
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