Le Puy to Moissac April/May 2012

[spokes]

Hi Members Just a note to introduce ourselves & thank you for the information gained to date.
My wife & I have a slightly different Camino history than most.
Time from work and distance from our home in Australia are our constraint.
We first rode the Camino Frances on folding Bike Friday's in April 2007.That's when we became addicted.
We rode the Via de la Plata route with excursions onto the Camino Portugues the following year.
My wife was always a walker and she came back in 2010 to walk Roncesvalles to Sahagun section while I went skiing in Japan.
Last year she returned and starting from Pamploma walked to Burgos then bused to Sahagun to walk to SdC.
After some trekking in Nepal last November I hope I am ready for for the Le Puy route.We hope to meet up with our daughter ,who may (visa delays) be working in Monaco by then, at weekends and some other Australians living in Millau when we get close.
Apart from those distractions we hope to get a credencial & walk as far as we can between 27th April and 20th May spending as much time as possible living in the moment.
Have just booked train from Gare de Lyon to Le Puy and will probably have lots of questions as departure day gets closer.
Spokes

 

[karenhypes]

Hi 'Spokes'. My wife and I walked from Le Puy to Moissac Sep/Oct 2010. We returned to Moissac in Apr '11 and walked to SJPP and then on to Estella and served as Hospitaleros. We did Le Puy to Moissac in 17 straight days. Great trip, great food...different experience than Camino Frances. Our 'bible' was the Miam Miam Dodo book. Lots of ups and downs in first couple of weeks but beautiful. Moissac is a great place to stop because you can easily get a train back to Lyon. Be sure to stay at Ultreia Gite in Moissac, Rom and Aiden are great.
Enjoy. Dayton and Karen, London, Canada

 

[robertt]

Agree about the Utreia gite, and about Miam Miam Dodo. And it was a friend of the Ultreia people, the Kiwinomad, who gave me a starting boost through her blog.
http://chemincamino08.blogspot.com.au/

 

[sharon w]

We will be in Le Puy on 24th April and will start walking on 26th. We will commemorate Anzac Day.Join us if you're there then. Hopefully, we'll see you along the way. We are 4 slowish walkers so you'll probably zoom past us.
Sharon

 

[spokes]

Thanks Guys I was planning on buying the Miam Miam Dodo book in Le Puy.I have already bought Alison Raju's Way of St James France book for my Kindle but as someone else has written the maps are quite small.
We didn't stay in Estella in 2007 but had a very special night nearby at Eunate Refugio that I am sure you would have visited.After dinner the Swiss hostelaras took us and the 4 walking pilgrims into the 13th century Knights Templar Church for candlelit prayers of thanks. It was one of the highlights of our Camino Frances.
We are starting to look forward to the walk and from what you and others have said about the route it should be great.

 

[spokes]

Hi Sharon we won't arrive in France until the 26th but if we can negotiate the airport to Paris Gare de Lyon in time we should be in Le Puy early afternoon and hopefully ready to set out the next day.
We will certainly look out for 4 Australians along the way to Moissac.