Bachibouzouk
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Voie de Soulac, Frances, De La Plata, Sureste/Levante, Manchego, Ruta del Argar.
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Having greatly benefitted from your Ruta del Argar notes from Lorca, I'd definitely be interested in these!if enough people are interested I'd be more than happy to post some facts and impressions.
Is this camino different than the Camino that goes from Santuario de Luc?
@Bachibouzouk Mallorca is one of my favourite places in the world, and for me, Deia is one of the most beautiful (beats Pollenca by some way), and it’s great that you’re spending a few days there. You staying at Can Boi? Cala Deia will be a little less crazy now it’s mid Sep, so do go there for a dip - and see the famous location used in The Night Manager. Lovely choice of walks down to the Cala from the village. if you want restaurant recommendations, feel free to message me
When you pick up the GR221 from Deia, the route passes in front of Son Mico. It’s an old finca turned cafe run by 2 sisters, and the cakes are to die for! About 30 mins before you reach it, there’s a great place to stop for freshly squeezed orange juice…nothing better on a warm day
That route finding sounds challenging! But it sounds like you made a good decision by getting to the next stage. There are quite a few tracks for the GR 221 on Wikiloc. Would any of these help you? You would have to download the Wikiloc app using wifi if you don't already have it. Then if you save it, you can follow the track offline.
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It looks like the user LucidDream posted all the stages.
GR221 (1/9) - Port d'Andratx - Sant Elm
GR221 (1/9) - Port d'Andratx - Sant Elm Hiking trail in Port d'Andratx, Baleares (España). Download its GPS track and follow the itinerary on a map. Day 1/9 Day 2/9 Day 3/9 Day 4/9 Day 5/9 Day 6/9 Day 7/9 Day 8/9 Day 9/9 GR221 in 9 Tagen gewandert, Tag 1: Gute Streckenlänge für...www.wikiloc.com
Hi @Bachibouzouk , thank you for your updates. I'll be walking in your path from end of october and i will try to prepare myself for the first two stretches. Please keep your updates coming!
Wishing you a great trip,
Mo
Thanks for all the informative posts and the nice background on Robert Graves and family! Having enjoyed A Woman Unknown, I'm now off to read her brothers' books.
Me too!I am very much enjoying your updates! Thank you!
Thank you, I have been able to book both Tossals Verds and the monastery. Looking into the Cuber now, as it sounds very interesting. Keep them coming!
That is very useful advice for future walkers!you should make this your very first booking and then work backwards and forwards with further reservations. Tossals Verds 'refugi' is a bottleneck - and this isn't even the peak hiking season!
Is this camino different than the Camino that goes from Santuario de Luc?
Thank you so much for your updates. I'm even more looking forward to my trip there.
Best wishes!! Buen camino
Esporles - Deia (23kms)
23kms but a full day's walking, particularly if you want to spend a couple of hours in Valldemossa, and I would suggest you probably do. It's a little busy and cosmopolitan (hotels, boutiques, tourist shops, coach loads of daytrippers up from the coast, ....) but very picturesque nonetheless. If you have deep pockets it could be an idea to overnight here (different feeling to the place once the daytrippers have returned to their resorts?). There is no refugi or value hotel here. The Royal Charterhouse looked interesting but it was a hive of activity that I really couldn't face. I did take a quick look at the Chopin Museum, which also allows you a tantalizing preview of the monastery 'intra muros'. Chopin, lover George Sand (aka Amandine Dupin de Franceuil) and her two children spent part of the winter of 1838-9 in the Royal Charterhouse. Chopin had tuberculosis and he was prescribed warmer, dryer climes for the winter. A 'cell' in a damp monastery up in the mountains in the middle of winter would seem an odd choice of destination. The 'cell', it turns out, is more like a suite of rooms and a terraced garden with view down to the sea. Chopin's piano, which he had sent from Paris, is still there, as is one of Sand's pipes - looking remarkably like a sebsi! Mostly it is just replicas on display; music sheets, paintings, letters, Chopin's death mask and a plaster cast of one of his hands. Apparently he completed various Preludes, one Polonaise his Second Ballade and The Third Scherzo here. Sand completed her novel Spiridion. I know very little about George Sand and what little I do is through the writings of Julian Barnes. As I understand it, in her day she was one of the most read writers not just in France but in Europe. Chopin's popularity remains, as evidenced by the number of Poles visiting. Not one single French person! I picked up a copy of A Winter In Mallorca as a Sand sampler.
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