Via Gebennensis, Geneva to Le Puy

[Kam Wong]

Hi All
I will walk from Geneva to St. Jean Pied de Port in late August. But I want to concentrate on the route from Geneva to Le Puy first. I have never walked in France; unfortunately, I do not speak French. I am seeking information about

• short-stage itineraries --- I prefer to walk up to 25 km per day if possible.
• Various accommodations.
• Drinking water and food availability along the route? I have heard that they may be hard to find in certain stages, especially some long ones, and on Sunday and Monday.
• Particular things I should be aware of on the Path, e.g. dog
• information resources
• guide books and phone applications ( I have Gronze, Mapy. cz and Wisepilgrims loaded but need to learn how to use them properly)

I will browse the Forum, but I thought I'd ask first.
Many thanks for considering my request.

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

@Kam Wong , there’s a short, current thread underway on this here:

Thread 'Online resources for accommodation on Via Gebennensis?'
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...s-for-accommodation-on-via-gebennensis.86179/

There‘s not a heck of a lot of information on here about the VG unfortunately.
From other sources- reading, videos etc :

1/ water, yes there’s a few places where you either need to carry sufficient for most of , if not the whole day - or a water filter. (Plenty of lakes/ flowing water along the way). As mine is only 85g, that’s my plan!

2/ Food. As you say, Sunday/Monday can be a real issue. Ditto a few longer sections with nothing on the way - but that’s just lunch/snacks. You also have to allow for the interesting hours- sometimes shops, bakeries are only open until 12. Or take very long lunch breaks - until 17.00, for example. So carrying some food is pretty important, as I read it.

3/dogs - I’ve read zero comments about problems

It won’t help with staging suggestions, but for a general overview you could watch Efrén Gonzalos‘s YouTube series on this, he walked it last year. In August ! I’ll pm you the link.

If you’d care to share your itinerary/ info as you find it, it’d be appreciated!

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

By the way, Mapy.cz is easy to learn to use, the beauty of it is, you can use it at home. Remember to download the map’s you want, they remain really accurate even offline. (Within a few metres - careful if you have multiple options!)

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

Oh, and you really may want to start trying to learn a little French - or get comfortable with translate..

 

[Kam Wong]

Oh, and you really may want to start trying to learn a little French - or get comfortable with translate..

Thanks, I will learn some basics for the next few months.

 

[kayagee66]

If you stay in accommodation offering Demi-Pension (DP), which is evening meal, bed, breakfast. Then you may not want much more.
It’s enough for me, i do occasionally carry a snack, but not normally.

 

[Kam Wong]

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If you stay in accommodation offering Demi-Pension (DP), which is evening meal, bed, breakfast. Then you may not want much more.
It’s enough for me, i do occasionally carry a snack, but not normally.

Good to know. Thanks.