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Lourdes to SJPJP

goldenlotus5

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Time of past OR future Camino
Lourdes to Finesterre, September & October (2015)
Has anyone taken the Voi du Piemont from Lourdes to SJPSP? How many days for the average walker? How is the scenery and albergues?
 
Down bag (90/10 duvet) of 700 fills with 180 g (6.34 ounces) of filling. Mummy-shaped structure, ideal when you are looking for lightness with great heating performance.

€149,-
Transport luggage-passengers.
From airports to SJPP
Luggage from SJPP to Roncevalles
Has anyone taken the Voi du Piemont from Lourdes to SJPSP? How many days for the average walker? How is the scenery and albergues?
I did this last September- 7 days - I've the route description in English
If you pm me with your email address I'll send it to you
Buen Camino
Joe
 
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Technical backpack for day trips with backpack cover and internal compartment for the hydration bladder. Ideal daypack for excursions where we need a medium capacity backpack. The back with Air Flow System creates large air channels that will keep our back as cool as possible.

€83,-
I'd like to see this too, please would you send it to me as well
 
Has anyone taken the Voi du Piemont from Lourdes to SJPSP? How many days for the average walker? How is the scenery and albergues?
There is the option to walk to Somport via the GR653 and join up with the Camino Aragones. The route is lovely and it is a path less traveled.
 
Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-
There is the option to walk to Somport via the GR653 and join up with the Camino Aragones. The route is lovely and it is a path less traveled.

Lourdes to SJPP is very quiet also, most days last September I was alone !
 
I did it last late September; from Lourdes to Betharram (monastery albergue), Arudy (parish), Mauleón (municipal), Oloron (Amis du chemin, others), Hôpital Saint Blaise (parish), St Just Ibarre (private), SJPP (lot of choices). The albergues are fine. Calling for a reservation is customary. I saw many "rural hostals" in farms, but I don't know about them. Kitchens are not always available; sometimes dinner is offered (for a price). Arudy is "donativo". Walking in France is more expensive than in Spain.
It is a very beautiful and picturesque way (see pics in Godesalco guide). Mostly rural roads, gravel paths; some sections of paved roads with scarce traffic. Little villages (note: most of the times without commercial services), farms, woods; a couple of medium cities. Quite lonely, too (apart from Oloron, where you meet the people going to Somport). I walked between 8-10 hrs daily (I am rather slow...) alone, with almost no person in sight. It has some tough sections, especially the "col de Napal", before Ibarre. I think some trekking experience is advisable. I noticed other pilgrims were walking in pairs or groups, but maybe it was just a coincidence.
Signposting is very good, but some sections has many alternatives that require attention.
There are some online guides: Gronze (in Spanish), Peterrobins (English), Voie du Piemont (French)
and some printed ones. An association in Toulouse, ACIR, offers a free pdf available by request (they also have a fine printed guide).
Buen camino!
 
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Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-

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