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I saw. In the morning I will head back to my flat, from my mum's, to pick up a few thermals!!! There was I thinking it was Spring!!!futurefjp,
You must be very excited as soon you will be on your way. Do watch the weather reports for all of France will have a cold spell begining this Thursday for the next 5 days or so. Bring some layers to keep you warm plus perhaps a knitted cap.
Stay safe and Bon voyage
Hi,
I've got an infection in one of my fingers I should probably get looked at tomorrow. Any advice where to go after I leave Tour Saint Jacques and before Saint Louis du Temple de Limon?
I am going to wait on the infection until I reach a place to have a rest day...futurefjp,
For your infection it may be simpler to have it treated in Beauvais. Ask when you arrive. If you are in Paris now either ask at Ephrem or go to the emergency room of any hospital. However it might be easiest to wait until Saint Louis du Temple de Limon. Their web describes a very sympathetic/ helpful group of nuns.
I think I might have just got lucky by calling the Accueil Pelerin in Paris as there is a family nearby Dampierre willing to let me stay.Perhaps these will help.
Monastery of the Orantes in Bonneuil, 23 km from Igny on the route to Chartres provides pilgrim accommodation. Here is their web with contact info for an email. http://www.spiritualite2000.com/monasteres/monastere-des-orantes-de-lassomption/
You can write them in English for a reservation and provide a Google translation.
In Epernon see
www.prieure-saint-thomas.fr
From Epernon it is 26 km to Chartres. For more French info on this section of the walk in the Eure et Loir department see
www.compostelle28.org/index.php?version=computer
Happy planning!
Lucky you. Stay dry and warm. This weekend will be difficult weatherwise. Here in champagne all the vintners are very nervous re the forecast freeze.I think I might have just got lucky by calling the Accueil Pelerin in Paris as there is a family nearby Dampierre willing to let me stay.
The weather looks fowl for a couple more days so I need a few bits of luck...
Eiswein...Lucky you. Stay dry and warm. This weekend will be difficult weatherwise. Here in champagne all the vintners are very nervous re the forecast freeze.
Take care.
One near Orsy. It wasn't the Camino... Just a local routefuturefjp,
Thank goodness for that handrail! What woods/forest is that?
Have a good day.
Orsay?One near Orsy. It wasn't the Camino... Just a local route
Orsy, Orsay or Horsey...Orsay?
I am a nurse. Do get the finger looked at. You don't want a finger to the reason you need to stop a Camino rather than feet or a knee.So I am starting to suffer with the infection in my right index finger. Most of the day I hadn't paid it much attention, but now, as I have time to reposé - after a longish day - 27 kilometres - and after a warm soapy shower, there is a more noticeable pain. Tomorrow I probably should go to Urgencies at the Hospital in Chartres and await my turn to get a prescription...
The family I am staying with, retirees, have never taken in a pilgrim, but they usually have refugees and asylum seekers for up to a month at a time. Lovely cup of tea and noisette sablés and I can hear them chopping vegetables. It's been some time - years - since I last got welcomed by a family and I am very grateful. Tomorrow I should walk from here to rejoin the way in Rambouillet to decide what I should do about the infection: there is a hospital in Chartres and perhaps I must go there and have a day off on Saturday? Two nights in Chartres... Or stick to the original plan and see what can be done in Orléans?
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My hosts will drop me in the morning at the Hospital in Rambouillet to get the infection dealt with. But I think that waiting to be seen will kill off Friday's walking so I may be required to bus, train, hitchhike to Epernon or Chartres. The hospital might prioritise me being a pilgrim?
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I haven't stayed with a Compostelle family since around Saint Quentin, I think...
Having looked it up it was 2018 when I walked from Ghent to Saint Quentin, then met Glenn in Reims the day after - where I attacked him with a baguette coming out of the gare: I was drunk because he was exceedingly late.
Marie-Thérèse and Jean-Marc have been very kind allowing me to stay here today. As their first pilgrim I feel it is a shame I am English because I know they would be wonderful towards native French speakers. It's so long since I had this option - in Spain and Portugal it is forever Albergue/Refugio.
It snowed most of yesterday, but it wasn't settling. I've dug out my woollen hat for this morning. I love crisp sunny cold walking... As long as I am wrapped up tight.How is the snow where you are? It is cold here along the Marne. Tonight will be colder however. Take care
I was always going to continue. With or without a fingerGlad to learn that you are able to continue. Carpe diem.
I am in the Halte JacquaireThis youth hostel might also offer cheap accommodation in Orleans tonight.
Good luck.
Hopefully. I won't be walking between Tours and ChâtelleraultWill you get as far as Poitiers ?
Don't blame you. It's not the best part of the route. If you have problems pm me, I live East of Poitiers.Hopefully. I won't be walking between Tours and Châtellerault
It's not that I don't like. I've walked it previously: 2014Don't blame you. It's not the best part of the route. If you have problems pm me, I live East of Poitiers.
Have you a bed on Friday night... Hopefully I will get to Poitiers then?Don't blame you. It's not the best part of the route. If you have problems pm me, I live East of Poitiers.
Ah. I have a spare room but my son will be staying. I'm sorry, I was thinking more of problem solving rather than accommodation. But if you are stuck I'm sure I can find a mattress or you could sleep in my camper van. Are you continuing beyond Poitiers?Have you a bed on Friday night... Hopefully I will get to Poitiers then?
No. After Poitiers I have to get to Limoges on Saturday as I fly back to the UK on 10th(Palm Sunday) for Easter week surrounded by those I love. Lola, a Vizsla, and my family, obviously. I probably need to get the finger looked at again.Ah. I have a spare room but my son will be staying. I'm sorry, I was thinking more of problem solving rather than accommodation. But if you are stuck I'm sure I can find a mattress or you could sleep in my camper van. Are you continuing beyond Poitiers?
Campervan sounds excellentAh. I have a spare room but my son will be staying. I'm sorry, I was thinking more of problem solving rather than accommodation. But if you are stuck I'm sure I can find a mattress or you could sleep in my camper van. Are you continuing beyond Poitiers?
Ok, no problem. I'll pm you my email and phone number.Campervan sounds excellent
If you do get to Tours, the nuns at the basilica St Martin have a place for you to stay, and they will feed you. Donativo.It has just poured down on me, in a Westerly gale, since I left the security of Ferme le Plessis at 7:30... Got to Amboise at 12.
Possibly the rain which broke the pilgrims back? One more day to Tours? I don't know!
If you do get to Tours, the nuns at the basilica St Martin have a place for you to stay, and they will feed you. DonativoIt has just poured down on me, in a Westerly gale, since I left the security of Ferme le Plessis at 7:30... Got to Amboise at 12.
Possibly the rain which broke the pilgrims back? One more day to Tours? I don't know!
I will get there... Poitiers may have to wait, again, for another Chemin?If you do get to Tours, the nuns at the basilica St Martin have a place for you to stay, and they will feed you. Donativo.
Here is more info re Amma ferme du Plessis
Carpe diem.
I tried to contact the Franciscans in Limoges. First I got the ones in Assisi and second they didn't reply...You are welcome to stay any time you are on the Tours route. For now, it's an easy train journey Tours to Limoges.
I stopped at Café Des Arts...and I can't move - my body won't go anywhere!Thanks for your update. I'm glad that you went to the right place. Where will you be tonight? Take care and try to stay dry. Here in Champagne it is pouring rain.
I've got to the Saint Martin Basilica this evening, however I might not have a key to get back in to the Guesthouse...futurefjp,
Pouring rain on the Marne river most of today. Where will you stop in Tours? After Limoges tomorrow you go where to fly home? Wherever you may be I wish you the best.
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