Kiwi-family
{Rachael, the Mama of the family}
- Time of past OR future Camino
- walking every day for the rest of my life
So we want to walk 1,000km minimum (but not too much more!)
There would be Mama and probably two lads, 11 and 13 years old (and maybe possibly perhaps but probably not - two girls aged 8 and 10 - very uncertain about the youngest one especially)
Start in Saint Jean, take the lower route, stopping in Valcarlos the first night, then on to Roncesvalles.
Wander on to Leon over the next 23 days - longest distance would be 23km, but most around 20.
Shoot up Camino del Salvador to Oviedo in six days (we have already walked the Frances section from Astorga and so would quite like to do a different route) - distances between 13.5 and 23.9km.
Hit the Primitivo for a couple of weeks. Some days would need to be long-for-us (24km), but they would be balanced out by short ones (8.8, 9.6, 13, 14).
Back on the Frances at Melide (need to visit a favourite bakery there for emapanadas, croissants and cookies that I don't know the name of but will recognise and buy in bulk!)....three days to get to Santiago, but will not stop at the cathedral.
Straight on out to Finisterre and then back to the square, the cathedral, the pilgrims' mass, the pilgrims' office - time allowed: ten days.
According to the mundicamino distances that would be 1083.5km, and by my calculations should take 59 days. I'd allow four days wriggle-room to bring the total time to nine weeks. If we discovered we were able to walk longer distances and ended up with extra time, there would be plenty of ways to fill it - my concern is that we allow *enough* time to not be rushing.
Am I missing anything significant?
There would be Mama and probably two lads, 11 and 13 years old (and maybe possibly perhaps but probably not - two girls aged 8 and 10 - very uncertain about the youngest one especially)
Start in Saint Jean, take the lower route, stopping in Valcarlos the first night, then on to Roncesvalles.
Wander on to Leon over the next 23 days - longest distance would be 23km, but most around 20.
Shoot up Camino del Salvador to Oviedo in six days (we have already walked the Frances section from Astorga and so would quite like to do a different route) - distances between 13.5 and 23.9km.
Hit the Primitivo for a couple of weeks. Some days would need to be long-for-us (24km), but they would be balanced out by short ones (8.8, 9.6, 13, 14).
Back on the Frances at Melide (need to visit a favourite bakery there for emapanadas, croissants and cookies that I don't know the name of but will recognise and buy in bulk!)....three days to get to Santiago, but will not stop at the cathedral.
Straight on out to Finisterre and then back to the square, the cathedral, the pilgrims' mass, the pilgrims' office - time allowed: ten days.
According to the mundicamino distances that would be 1083.5km, and by my calculations should take 59 days. I'd allow four days wriggle-room to bring the total time to nine weeks. If we discovered we were able to walk longer distances and ended up with extra time, there would be plenty of ways to fill it - my concern is that we allow *enough* time to not be rushing.
Am I missing anything significant?