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Please let me know if you are planning to walk the Levante in 2017 and would enjoy company.
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Kanga- Thanks for your response. Sounds like you are iffy when/if you can go. I am looking at either between Feb/Apr-May/Jun; or Sept-Nov. I am looking at doing the Geneva/LePew to Santiago route next year too.
Trevor- Thanks for sharing your experience of doing the Levante. What is your Facebook page?
Trevor Cowan-ClarkKanga- Thanks for your response. Sounds like you are iffy when/if you can go. I am looking at either between Feb/Apr-May/Jun; or Sept-Nov. I am looking at doing the Geneva/LePew to Santiago route next year too.
Trevor- Thanks for sharing your experience of doing the Levante. What is your Facebook page?
I am not so fast as I like to look around and to saunter along.Also, I should let everyone know I average 2.5-3mph and 22-25k a day. So I am kind of in the tortuga speed range.
Eyup Matt. I'm setting off from Valencia on the 10th of January.
Will do I am also on facebook Trevor Cowan-Clark which I will update each day if wifi is about with a few photos
Hi, Trevor,Will do I am also on facebook Trevor Cowan-Clark which I will update each day if wifi is about with a few photos
Just the Amigos book Matt. I've got my iPad too. I walked through the Western Scottish Highlands in winter and kind of got addicted to the cold and damp. Bring it on.
You are kidding me! A couple of peregrinos died from the weather??? That is serious dudu!
Trevor Cowan-ClarkKanga- Thanks for your response. Sounds like you are iffy when/if you can go. I am looking at either between Feb/Apr-May/Jun; or Sept-Nov. I am looking at doing the Geneva/LePew to Santiago route next year too.
Trevor- Thanks for sharing your experience of doing the Levante. What is your Facebook page?
Please let me know if you are planning to walk the Levante in 2017 and would enjoy company.
Matt
I've planned to get to Valencia on April 6th and start my Camino del Levante on 8th.
I've already booked my flight from Pisa to VLC but the issue of going or not depends on my parent's health conditions.
Depending on the holiday period i can get i plan to get to Toledo (at least) or maybe to Avila or even to Zamora; i'm pretty sure i can't get a longer holiday period in order to get to Santiago, this year.
Average "caminante", here: usually, when on the Camino, i can walk stages of an average of about 35 kms; some 40/45 kms (or slightly more) long stage, now and then, are possible when the trail is rather flat, but i prefer enjoying my "Camino" than doing some race.
I'm planning to get to Toledo in 14/15 days walking and having a resting day there for visiting that brilliant town; if my holiday period will allow me to, i'd like to have my second resting day in Avila.
I'm used to walk mostly alone or with some good friend of mine but also enjoy to meet people now and then while walking, chatting a little, walking together for a while, supporting each other for any peregrino's need or problem, having meals together.
I can communicate fluently in spanish, rather well in english; ...and perfectly in italian, of course!
Just curious if anyone else has plans for Levante in 2017. I'm still planning for sept, though having read @trevorcc report, I will definitely have to work on heat acclimatization, though I may start later in the month if possible.
Yes, I agree. Laurie's notes are invaluable. Like you, I am using them as the core for the "personal guide" I'm assembling from this forum and a few other sources. A good way to spend evenings in January.Thank you a lot, Laurie!
I've read your blog about your experience along the Camino del Levante and found your comments & advices very, very useful in building up my personal guide i'm assembling.
Useful just as all the valueable advices you give us on this forum, i must add!
So, thus far, I am counting
John Theroux
Bernie Bonar
Mauromono
Mathew
Myself and two friends from the Netherlands
leaving Valencia in early April. Did I leave anyone out?
I am hopeful that our paths will cross and that moments with coffee and/or wine will be shared.
DkPond
(James M.)
Indeed, you are Matthew. (Apologies for the mis-spelling).If I am "Matthew", I am probably leaving Alicante March 8th or so. Brandy from Italy is leaving Valencia I think a week later. Yes, there are two women from Netherlands who are leaving April 1ish
So, thus far, I am counting
John Theroux
Bernie Bonar
Mauromono
Mathew
Myself and two friends from the Netherlands
leaving Valencia in early April. Did I leave anyone out?
I am hopeful that our paths will cross and that moments with coffee and/or wine will be shared.
DkPond
(James M.)
Indeed, you are Matthew. (Apologies for the mis-spelling).
I haven't heard about the two women from the Netherlands yet, or at least I don't think so. That makes for a really solid Dutch representation. Maybe I need to switch my Duolingo lessons from Spanish to Dutch.
James
You definitely don't need to!
I have been living in the Netherlands for one year or so, some years ago, and can tell that they probably are the most skilled people in the world in speaking foreign languages!
And, of course, english is the first foreign language the learn.
After i came back to Italy and afterwards, when i met some dutchman anywhere outside Holland, i've never met any of them who couldn't easily communicate in english...
My friend John Theroux and I will leave Valencia on April 4 or so... Looking forward to it!
I wish!! San Diego State for me.. My daughter graduated from Cal in 2015. Metabolic Biology! She's the smart one...
Ok this is a new one. Having walked the VdlP/Sanabres in Feb/March this year I thought I had ended my Camino "thing" but not so. It just does not go away does it.
So I fly to Alicante on last day of August and intend to start from Valencia on 1st September 2017. Zamora is the first goal with an extra 5 days added so as to get to Astorga (and complete the VdlP)
Have had considerable difficulty in locating an English guide book but have managed to download information on the route. As usual all the guidebooks seem to be in German.
Will be dumping some items from my kit list and increasing the water carrying capacity from my usual 1 lt. The bivvy bag and mat will be staying as I reckon it will be getting some use.
All in all this seems to be a greater challenge than all my previous Caminos, really looking forward to it. A new adventure !
Ok this is a new one. Having walked the VdlP/Sanabres in Feb/March this year I thought I had ended my Camino "thing" but not so. It just does not go away does it.
So I fly to Alicante on last day of August and intend to start from Valencia on 1st September 2017. Zamora is the first goal with an extra 5 days added so as to get to Astorga (and complete the VdlP)
Have had considerable difficulty in locating an English guide book but have managed to download information on the route. As usual all the guidebooks seem to be in German…...
Thank you Pilgr and Grace. I am just starting the process of research ,planning and preparation........looks like I am going to need a new pair of boots ....is it just me or are Vibram soles getting thinner !
Have sorted out the flights and post Camino plans include getting back to Toledo, train to Valencia and then up to Tarragona before flying back to UK from Barcelona.
I will look at the recent threads you refer to,
Buen Camino,
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@moromauro that is fantastic news!. I’ll follow your footsteps soon so any helpful hints on ‘tricky’ spots will be much appreciated. Buen Camino