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Planning my way for next April, I have the right guide books, the right maps, Randonnee, and Google Earth isonly a button push away, got down the road and planned all the way to La Charité-sur-Loire wow! a whole whopping 70 odd kilometers what a marvelous achievement only some 1000 and change more to do then...Yok! Its "You take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road" time-Bourges or Nevers! Only trouble I"m walking alone! True they meet up again 150k +- later but which way to take? I need yhou kind people to convince me, Bourges has the nicest scenery, the nicest gites, the best food and wine or Nevers has the most fantastic Romanesque churches, the nicest people, the best food and wine, the most picturesque villages. A real dilema, which way to take??!?
The Scruffy One Scratching his head in Jerusalem
Hello Scruffy!
All the other pilgrims were keen to save a few km so chose the Bourges route.
Haha! Sorry AJ, you are right - those who choose the Bourges route undoubtedly do so for reasons other than saving their feet - though many of those I met had walked from Holland, and by the time they got to Vezelay they were desperate to find shortcuts and avoid any steep paths! Anyway my point is that there are pros and cons to both routes, and one probably cannot make a wrong choiceAll? Bourges cathedral is a pretty good reason to choose this route.
some of us are truly moved by the Romanesque and left overwhelmed and even cold by the Gothic.
Thanks Metropolly-I had come to the Nevers route decision on my own but really appreciate your recommendations for lodging, already marked in my guide-I leave in two months and the excitement is building!
S
You have, alas, discovered my secret! I am not of the Christian persusion and have come to walk the Camino five times now from my love of history and architecture. The splendid experience, the camaraderie, the personal spirituality of the Camino keeps bringing me back. We will not agree on things artistic-Gothic will work but don't get me started on say Baroque or even worse the Neo-Classical-I truly don't care for the flashy modern stuff.Don't care for the flashy modern stuff eh?
The gite I'm sure is wonderful, I only mention the CH in case you wish to make a two-night stopover in Gargilesse, as I was forced to do for reasons beyond my control! By the way, are you starting in Vezelay? As you are such a fan of the great wines, if you have a little more time you could always begin back in Reims. There's a well-marked path and guidebooks are available in the cathedral there. Then you could enjoy the Champagne region as a kind of aperitif, before the big guns of Burgundy! It is a wonderful route for many reasons, not all of them grape-basedGeorge Sand already in my notes, the gite is there now! Thanks again
As you are such a fan of the great wines, if you have a little more time you could always begin back in Reims. There's a well-marked path and guidebooks are available in the cathedral there. Then you could enjoy the Champagne region as a kind of aperitif, before the big guns of Burgundy! It is a wonderful route for many reasons, not all of them grape-based
Thanks Margaret-a very good idea, better than Sermizelles by far. I only have six weeks to walk so Santiago is not the last stop this time another two days here or there don't matter and this is a very good option. ThanksWill you be walking from Auxerre to Vezelay? A nice route to follow is
Auxerre, Cravant, Mailly-le-Chateau, Chatel-Censoir to Vezelay. In late autumn 2008 I walked from our farm located on the Marne over the hills to Vezelay. Although I intended to continue on to SJPdP and Spain my knees did not !
MM
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that particular abbaye. Are you thinking of staying there for a night? Some of my loveliest times on the camino were staying at the lovely abbayes and attending vepres etc. I think you're going to love this trip. I'm just writing up that portion of my camino, and the notes are all 'another 12th-century church' and 'brought back from the 7th crusade'I will be leaving Jerusalem April 6 for Paris, train schedules force a night in Paris then on to Auxerre on Monday hopefully in Vezelay Monday late or early Tuesday. So very difficult to decide! Are you familiar with Abbye de Loirlac closeby Saint-Armand-Montrond?
Auxerre, Cravant, Mailly-le-Chateau, Chatel-Censoir to Vezelay
Hi Margaret,
which way did you follow?
The one from the Jacobean association or did you follow your own intuition?
Regards,
FatmaG
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