Helen Mannersjö
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Via De La Plata + Sanabres march-april 1050km 2015
Arles to Lodeve + Norte & Primitivo march-may 1250km 2016
Planning for Sureste and Torres march 2017
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You can get a stamp and a rough map at the cathedral in Tours, but I would strongly urge you to learn as much French as you can between now and April. After Tours until you get to Bordeaux you aren't going to find many people who speak English, even in the tourist offices, except maybe in Poitiers. I did find a blog a year or so ago written by an English girl who started in Tours who used couchsurfing.com to find places to stay with people who spoke English.
Your English is just fine, incidentally. But you will get a lot more out of the trip if you can learn at least a little French before you go.
Even if you don't learn much else, try to be sure you can understand the difference between à droite (turn right) and tout droit ( straight ahead), even when spoken quickly. Since you're already a polyglot it should be easy to pick up a little basic French between now and then, at least much easier than it is for people who only speak one language, like most of us Americans.
I am not sure how long it will take us to reach Irun. Men vi har ingen tid att passaTours, I like that. I agree that you should learn as much french as possible, not only for practical reasons but also to be able to exchange a few words with people you meet in the villages. I couldn't imagine doing the Camino without french in France or spanish in Spain...
Do you know when you will reach the border Spain/France to go on the Camino del Norte? Jag tror att jag startar nån gång i början av juni, i Irún i så fall.
/BP
Not speaking French makes it a tad bit more difficult, but not impossible! SY
Hello I live with 40kms in the south of Turns, and it is very pleasant to make the way of Compostelle starting from Turns. The city is beautiful and there is the superb Loire river. then people are hospital; there are not too many people, one eats good things and Poitou with all the Romanesque churches it is really superb. For English it there moreover it than one says it who leparle, but it is necessary to go towards people. they know that American released France in 1944 with the allies. they often learned English but one does not practise it much then needs partel slowly but the jlangage of the smile and the heart makes the rest
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Hi Andy,bonjour everyone, i begin my camino from paris march 29th. can i get a credential from notre dame? does anyone know of a map shop or book shop where i can pick up a guide or maps? thanks andy
Bonjour, @andyvi.bonjour everyone, i begin my camino from paris march 29th. can i get a credential from notre dame?
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