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I guess the obvious question is, why bail-out on the Meseta merely to walk a section you have walked before?
I'm not sure why some people avoid it....
I found the most boring part of the Meseta between Sahagun and Villarente most of it alongside the road,in the open with no shelter from sun or wind.The railway runs through Sahagun so catch train here to Leon.Hi,
We are starting another 'stage' of our personal Camino Frances in Roncevalles about September 8th. We have planned the walk to Burgos. However, we do not want to walk the full distance from Burgos to Leon, but perhaps walk a couple of days to 'sample' the meseta. Is there some point along the meseta where we can easily 'bail-out' and continue onto Leon with public transport? From Leon we plan to restart at Virgen del Camino and rewalk part of the route we walked in 2014 until we run out of time and have to return to Madrid for our flight home to Perth, Australia.
Hi, why scip the Meseta? It's such a beautiful part of the Camino.Hi,
We are starting another 'stage' of our personal Camino Frances in Roncevalles about September 8th. We have planned the walk to Burgos. However, we do not want to walk the full distance from Burgos to Leon, but perhaps walk a couple of days to 'sample' the meseta. Is there some point along the meseta where we can easily 'bail-out' and continue onto Leon with public transport? From Leon we plan to restart at Virgen del Camino and rewalk part of the route we walked in 2014 until we run out of time and have to return to Madrid for our flight home to Perth, Australia.
Peter, I live within 10 minutes drive to the Lake District and I can assure you the Messeta has nothing to compare.Hi, why scip the Meseta? It's such a beautiful part of the Camino.
It's a great country site with nice villages and small towns.
But the choice is yours, wish you a Buen Camino, Peter.
Peter, I live within 10 minutes drive to the Lake District and I can assure you the Messeta has nothing to compare.
Many thanks for the information about Fromista, if we can make that a four day segment, rather than three, it will be ideal and will fit into our time frame.
Comparing the Lake District with the meseta is like comparing beer and wine.
I love the Lake District. I also love the meseta but then I did not walk along the path beside the main road.
The alternate way avoids the road almost all the way into Mansilla de las Mulas--it's much more remote, but not without comfortable accommodation at Calzadilla de los Hermanillos (a very nice CR, Casa el Cura, as well as an equally high-quality albergue).I found the most boring part of the Meseta between Sahagun and Villarente most of it alongside the road,in the open with no shelter from sun or wind.
Absolutely! Bottom line is how a given landscape makes us feel inside, which is why there is no such thing as an absolute measure of beauty...our subjective experiences are unique."beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
I do understand you want to "make the most" of your days on the Camino, but before getting there and actually doing it, how can you know what this "most" might be? To me that sounds like thinking in tourist categories: See the (assumedly) most beautiful scenery and sights, all those things we tend to read and hear of...
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