Roads in Le Puy

[robermarbe]

Hi
My name is Roberto.
I planned to do the Camino de Santiago frances in Spain, but due to I live in The Netherlands and that I want to avoid crowds in Spain, I am considering to go for the Camino de Le puy or even the Via Turonensis.
I would like to avoid roads as much as possible. Could somebody give me an update on which percentage of both routes go through roads with vehicles?.
I would appreciate any info in this regards.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

You can look here at the IGN topography for the two routes and see the sections that are roads. Most roads are country roads where you might see only the postal vans during an entire morning!

http://pilgrim.peterrobins.co.uk/routes ... s/puy.html
http://pilgrim.peterrobins.co.uk/routes ... tours.html

 

[jl]

I have found that even though there may be roads on both the le Puy path and the Vezelay path they are surprisingly quiet! The exception for this was the detours in the Llandes last year, which were due to the fact that the path was impassable because of the fierce storms earlier in the year. I think there is probably more road walking on the Vezelay path than on the le Puy path - having done them both - but as I said mainly quiet roads. Cheers, Janet

 

[newfydog]

Most roads are country roads where you might see only the postal vans during an entire morning!

Those Postal vans are usually driven by crazed middleaged women, who drive like a bat out of hell! At least they are bright yellow.

Other than that, there are very few vehicles on the Le Puy route.

 

[robermarbe]

It sounds very good. Lets see whether I take a decision or not, but the Camino de Le Puy has many chances for this summer.

 

[ranthr]

Hello!
I went from Le Puy to Santiago in autumn 2009 and was surprised about on how much hardwareroad the route was on. Much asfalt i would say in France. I had walked the Spanish way a couple of times before with better paths. You have to change the side of the way you walk on to
avoid damageing your legs.
Randi

 

[gittiharre]

How odd, intuitively it did not feel very ashphalty for me on the Le Puy Route, I felt there were more natural paths than in Spain. Any of the french roads though were extremely quiet unlike the spanish ones. Gitti

 

[Deleted member 3000]

We switched sides of the road, too, but invariably a passing driver would tell us to walk on the left!