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Greetings
My husband and I are starting Le Puy around Sept 14 and plan to walk about 3 weeks in France before taking off for other parts of Spain. Any responses are greatly appreciated to our many questions:
-Best way to get to Le Puy from Paris
-Which stages on Le Puy are not to be missed
-List of albuergues along route (donativos, churches, and other reasonable)
-To make reservations, etc. is it best to buy Sim card, use own phone with international plan, or???? We are not very tech savvy
Any other helpful tips to share ? weather in September?
Thank you all for your welcomed replies
Looking for some of these answers, too! I will be walking this route June 2018.Greetings
My husband and I are starting Le Puy around Sept 14 and plan to walk about 3 weeks in France before taking off for other parts of Spain. Any responses are greatly appreciated to our many questions:
-Best way to get to Le Puy from Paris
-Which stages on Le Puy are not to be missed
-List of albuergues along route (donativos, churches, and other reasonable)
-To make reservations, etc. is it best to buy Sim card, use own phone with international plan, or???? We are not very tech savvy
Any other helpful tips to share ? weather in September?
Thank you all for your welcomed replies
Greetings
My husband and I are starting Le Puy around Sept 14 and plan to walk about 3 weeks in France before taking off for other parts of Spain. Any responses are greatly appreciated to our many questions:
-Best way to get to Le Puy from Paris
-Which stages on Le Puy are not to be missed
-List of albuergues along route (donativos, churches, and other reasonable)
-To make reservations, etc. is it best to buy Sim card, use own phone with international plan, or???? We are not very tech savvy
Any other helpful tips to share ? weather in September?
Thank you all for your welcomed replies
Thank you for the suggestion to stay overnight in Lyon on the way. Good idea!1 Buy the first stage of MMDD to Cahors asap
If you stop in Conques for a day or Figeac or Cahors and do the Cele variant there is the three weeks.
Figeac and or Cahors have the train stations .
2 We just took our mobile on international roaming.
Hardly used as the Gites will ring ahead and all places we wished to stay has an em address.
3 Your time of arrival will determine if plane from CDG is possible.
Train is ok but plan a night in Lyon as the train to Lyon and then Le Puy is a few hours.
We got caught as they are pulling up the rail line , as I write , and with the bus the total trip was 4 hours from Lyon.
4 As Kanga said enjoy the harvest . The French only use what's in season which makes for enjoyable food and little weight loss.
The Sept weather is beautiful ( Late August does get thunderstorms) but still take a fleece.
Silk liner adequate .
This is harder than the Frances with sometimes difficult descents so the first few days should be planned.
Bon chemin
Thank you Margaret, for encouraging my little group of three to stop in Lyon and "smell the roses" while there. I always appreciate reading your helpful comments and the wise advise you give to so many of us who participate on this forum! You are a treasure in our midst.Camino Chris,
Check out this earlier Forum thread on getting the best out of Lyon.
Both the food and architecture are GREAT! You'll have a fine time.
Bon chemin!
We flew to Paris and took two maybe three trains to Le Puy, connections were fine. Train leave from the airport, bonus. We walked without a phone. We stopped in the information offices as we passed through villages and asked the staff to book a place for the next night; we had our name written out and would point to the next place we wanted to stay. Or we asked our host/hostess to book for us the next night. We used the MiamMiam DoDo guide, written in French, but got it early so we could learn to use it. We speak very little French, but had worked on it before we went. We loved the whole way, of course there can always be some trying times. Beautiful people, great food and happy memories.
Our blog: http://edandjoanonthechemin.blogspot.com
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