Rental question

Rental

Hello Suzanne,
What a dilemma for you – and for your friend. I do hope she has recovered sufficiently by July to walk some, if not most, of the camino.

Using the Brierley guide for the camino Frances, which splits the miles for each day into “paths –quiet roads – main roads, the 798kms from St Jean works out like this:

505 km on paths/tracks
202.6km on quiet roads (mostly through small villages)
90.6km on main roads

If you look at the daily stages you will see that the ‘camino path’ often winds alongside the main road, with a few sections (Cizur Menor to Puente la Reina, Burgos to Castrojeriz and a few more) nowhere close the main road at all.
There is a road route for people who drive the camino that takes you to all the same towns and villages and if you guys do decide to rent a vehicle, it would be worth ordering one of those maps.
Just one thing to bear in mind is that your friend won’t be allowed to stay in the refuges if she travels by car and you might not be accepted either if she carries your packs in the car.
Wish your friend a speedy recovery.

It would be a lot cheaper and LOTS more fun if you rented a donkey. It can be done.

Now, that is a great idea, Br. David, I second it. There r so many ways of going to Compostela, as pilgrims or not, each one according to his/her needs and means. As far as I'm concerned they're all valid, judgements excluded. Buen, buen Camino, to you, Suzanne, and to your fellow pilgrim. Your care for each other, is one of the things that this experience is all about. xm 8)