Tour de France visits the French side of the Aragones route!

Vacajoe

Traded in my work boots for hiking ones

Time of past OR future Camino

Frances, Portuguese, Aragon, Norte, SJWayUK, Nive

• Sep 4, 2020

• #1

Watch Stage 9 of the Tour de France this Sunday if you’d like to see where you would walk just before crossing into Spain at the Somport pass (the start of the Camino Aragones!)

Stage 9 travels from Pau to Marie St. Oloron and then up a valley ADJACENT to the one you walk through the day before reaching the official start of the Aragones. The last half travels across the pilgrim route and then into a third valley.

Trust me, only watch if you want to add yet another route to your bucket list!!!! Pure bliss and astonishing beauty out there.

 

Lexicos

Dimitrios

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2017 Camino Frances,
2019 C. Portuguese (inland).

• Sep 4, 2020

• #2

Going by your photos Joe, it looks absolutely ...... beautiful. Thanks for the tip, will watch Sunday's race for sure.

 

Vacajoe

Traded in my work boots for hiking ones

Time of past OR future Camino

Frances, Portuguese, Aragon, Norte, SJWayUK, Nive

• Sep 4, 2020

• #3

Sorry about the double photo post...I guess it’s doubly beautiful?

 

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jl

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Frances('05, '07), Aragonese ('05), del Norte / Primitivo ('09), Via Tolosana (Toulouse '05), Via Podiensis (Le Puy '07), Via Lemovicensis (Troyes '09), VF ('12), Winter Camino ('13/'14) Cammino d'Assisi ('14) Jakobseweg (Leipzig - Paris '15) San Salvador/Norte ('15) Ignaciano ('16) Invierno ('16)

• Sep 4, 2020

• #4

Oloron Sainte Marie is delightful

 

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lunna

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frances; lisboa-muxia; norte+bayonne; vdlp; le puy; voie d'arles+aragones; geneva to ales

• Sep 5, 2020

• #5

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Vacajoe said:

Watch Stage 9 of the Tour de France this Sunday if you’d like to see where you would walk just before crossing into Spain at the Somport pass (the start of the Camino Aragones!)

Stage 9 travels from Pau to Marie St. Oloron and then up a valley ADJACENT to the one you walk through the day before reaching the official start of the Aragones. The last half travels across the pilgrim route and then into a third valley.

Trust me, only watch if you want to add yet another route to your bucket list!!!! Pure bliss and astonishing beauty out there.View attachment 82284View attachment 82284View attachment 82285View attachment 82286View attachment 82284View attachment 82285View attachment 82286

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shhhhhhhh!!!!!!

 

Vacajoe

Traded in my work boots for hiking ones

Time of past OR future Camino

Frances, Portuguese, Aragon, Norte, SJWayUK, Nive

• Sep 7, 2020

• #6

Well, our secret remains safe! It was so cloudy and rainy in the Pyrenees that the tv coverage didn’t capture the soaring mountain ranges in all of their spectacular glory. I guess folks will have to go walk it if they want to know what all the excitement is about...