pilgrimglenn7
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- st james way and portugese
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Anamarie many thanks for your advice and helpfulnessIf I had to choose between I'd say May, September is very hot, and busier. I like May into June myself, when all is green, with flowers everywhere - beautiful. (having said that, this year I am going in September again - its the only month we can get off)
I think your wife would need to leave much later than you in the mornings, and taxi to where you are walking.
There is little point in getting there too early as places arent open. There is very little open in the mornings, just bars and cafes.
The choice of accommodation is often limited in smaller villages, with a wider range of accommodation in towns and cities.
There will be a lot of waiting on her part. A taxi for 25 kms takes only a small fraction of the time it takes to walk it.
thanks mate much appreciative in your commentsIf your wife is planning to travel the same stages as yourself then probably she will have to travel by taxi much of the time. Or you will have to put a lot of time and effort into researching bus services and timetables. A lot of the Camino Frances is in rural areas and passes through villages with little or no public transport. As you intend to cycle you have the possibility of longer stages and therefore more options than a walker would have. So you can probably choose to stop mostly in larger villages and towns which might have some bus services. But even then I doubt you could plan a whole route around them.
I've never used a taxi on the Camino myself so I can only say what I've read on here: that along the Camino Frances the average cost of a taxi is around 1 euro per km. A very expensive way to get from SJPDP to Santiago I'd say!how much would it cost to have a taxi ride say 50-60 kilometers ?
Taxi's are roughly 1 euro per km. There are buses that link some of the smaller places, but I've heard that they are not that frequent, so I'm not sure if that would work. I used buses twice to do some side trips eg Burgos to Bilbao for a day- they were very economical, about 26euros from memory, which was heaps cheaper than taxi's.Anamarie many thanks for your advice and helpfulnessand all the best on your time in September How much would it cost for a taxi to travel say up t0 50-60 kilometres? I know here in australia its a prohibitive cost.
Anything else you care to share will be greatly appreciatedBuen Camino
Have a look at the Alsa website, the bit between Burgos and León has about three services a day and more or less follows the caminoHey All
I am planning on riding the Way of St James and wondering what is cheapest way of my wife to travel from the start of Way of St James to Compastella and then onto Muxia and Fisterre and back to Santiago? she cant ride or walk the camino but wants to support me but wonders how she can get to next town and help us find accommodation and places to eat. We are both vegetarians.
Also what is best month? may or september?
We are planning minimum next year or year after as i am recovering from a serious car accident
Glenn
If your wife is comfortable driving in Europe, rent a car. It will be cheaper and more flexible than taking taxis. For your situation, I think it offers many advantages - You will easily be able to meet up during the day. It will give your wife the freedom to make her own side trips to places of interest, use out-of-town supermarkets for grocery shopping, and use the boot/trunk to store non-valuable luggage (but for goodness sakes never leave valuables in the car and never leave anything in view). Finally, it gives you a backup plan in case your cycling Camino doesn't pan out the way you expect. With a car and a bike rack you can switch down to a road trip with cycling excursions.
Anamarie many thanks for your advice and helpfulnessand all the best on your time in September How much would it cost for a taxi to travel say up t0 50-60 kilometres? I know here in australia its a prohibitive cost.
Anything else you care to share will be greatly appreciatedBuen Camino
thanks again mateEveryone should also avail themselves of the free app Rome2Rio. Also available at www.rome2rio.com, this app provides Point A to Point B travel suggestions for virtually any two places on the planet.
It does not solve your problems, but it DOES get you pointed in the right direction. For example, if a bus is indicated, there will be a link to the bus company.
This WILL help you.
Buen Camino Jim thanks for your suggestions and especially the buses. Reason why we want to spend every night together is that we depend on each other so much we need each other at night. And i promised her she where ever i went would be with me every night unless she was dead or impossible for me to stay with herGlenn,
After reading your request and some of the replies, all good indeed, it did come upon me to ask if your wife needed to be with you for each and every day. Perhaps, an alternative could be to send your wife ahead to the larger towns and cities along the Frances where she could stay for a few days. She could scope out the attractions and pick what the two of you might like to enjoy together. She could keep busy with photographing much of what she enjoyed on her own. You could spend your nights without her in the albergues to economize. Buses do run along much of the Frances but generally between the larger towns and cities. ALSA runs between the major cities. Many local lines stop at towns along the way. For example, I know that there is a local bus running between Logrono and Burgos, stopping at many of the common stage destinations in between those two cities. Best wishes to both of you. And even though it's a ways off, buen camino!
true mate and thanks but see what i wrote to JimAnd expanding on Jim's post, although you might miss her for a day or two she could make it up to you if she can find a local cooking class.
thanks so much we will look into thisCamino Facil, the luggage transfer service, is offering taxi service .
You could email them and ask.
Buen Camino
unfortunately she cant ride any type or bike and can drive a car/suv Buen CaminoCan she ride a motor bike or a rental car?
thanks for all the optionsIf your wife is comfortable driving in Europe, rent a car. It will be cheaper and more flexible than taking taxis. For your situation, I think it offers many advantages - You will easily be able to meet up during the day. It will give your wife the freedom to make her own side trips to places of interest, use out-of-town supermarkets for grocery shopping, and use the boot/trunk to store non-valuable luggage (but for goodness sakes never leave valuables in the car and never leave anything in view). Finally, it gives you a backup plan in case your cycling Camino doesn't pan out the way you expect. With a car and a bike rack you can switch down to a road trip with cycling excursions.
1) First get some quotes from comparison sites:
https://www.autoeurope.eu
www.kayak.com
2) Then call or email autoeurope.com and get a quote for a short-term lease with buy-back:
www.autoeurope.com/peugeot-open-europe-lease/
My gut tells me that a two month lease with buy-back is going to be your best option. I believe it should be possible to pick up in Portugal and drop off in France or vice versa. It might sound too good to be true, but as a non-EU resident you can get a great deal this way:
www.tripsavvy.com/buy-back-car-leases-in-europe-1509095
Just as a benchmark, the absolute cheapest car rental that I know of in France is around €180 for 30 days for a Renault Twingo from Super-U supermarkets. It's probably not suitable for you because of the service restrictions (Max one month rental, inconvenient pick up locations, no one-way rentals, high insurance excess, awful website). But it gives you a rock-bottom benchmark to keep in mind as you review quotes for one-way rentals etc.
EDIT: On second thoughts, if you can work around the challenges with Super-U, it might be worth considering for the time that you're in France. It would take some ingenuity to make it work though. You would need to return the car to the place where you rented it, which means a cross-country drive at the end of the month, and then public transportation to get back. I would also recommend an additional insurance policy to cover the excess. And you might need help to deal with the website.
i agree t2andreo has been most helpful but so has everyone but he works there as a volunteer and never hesitates to answer my lot of questionsAs others have suggested, check out local buses before you fall into needing taxis. Spanish buses are safe and comfortable and makes Canadian public transport rather third-worldy in comparison.
A cursory glance at the Francese route suggests to me that buses are easily available from Pamplona to Santo Domingo de la Calzada, and from Burgos on. They normally leave either first thing in the morning, or in the late afternoon. They may not be always available on Sundays and the Saturday schedule, serving shoppers, may be quite different. Many happy hours can be spent on Rome2rio and individual sites figuring out the schedule. My experience of Spanish taxis is that they are roughly a euro per kilometre, but she will sometimes be able to share them with other pilgrims who are taking a break through injury or sloth. 2tandreo's post is a pinnable and has much useful information.
thanks so muchI pulled together a tentative itinerary for my husband who was going to ride and my father-in-law who would have taken public transport.... it can be done (even taking into account whether there would be inexpensive non-Pilgrim-only accommodation. Let me know if you’re interested in a copy of the spreadsheet.
thanks so muchThis is very doable.
As you walk your wife can take bus or train from town to town. Your best bet is to have your wife transport from larger towns and cities and await your arrival. Reason being, in some tiny towns the bus that arrives at 6pm is the 6pm bus on next day your wife will take to meet you at some very late hour in next town. Usually, this means the longest she’ll be on her own is a few days possibly a week.
In 2001, my mom and I did just that and this was prior to a cell phone in every hand.
My mom went with intention of walking the way. I was 39 and could easily average 30kms a day. She was a 70 year old couch potato, eight kms a day in August heat was a stretch.
From Roncesvalles she trekked to first small town then cabbed to Larrasoaña. Next day on road to Pamplona it was a Sunday no cabs. As we walked along at her pace our first camino angel arrived. A local picnicking with his family noticed her distress.
He commandeered another local to drive mom to Trinidad del Arre. I walked there . We ate lunch. She found a hotel in Pamplona. Restaurant helped us manage that and call cab to drive her there. I walked to Pamplona, met her at our agreed upon hotel.
And, that was our camino.
We would settle on a joint meeting city town for next day or few. I walked. She’d transport there find lodging. Once that was secure. She’d manage to tell albergue where she was staying. Not once did a hospie fail to relay her message. Because, she had a pilgrim’s passsport occasionally we sleep in albergues.
Sometimes we would meet up daily, more often than not a few days or a week would elapse before we would see one another.
The nicest part; I enjoyed the albergues and meeting other pilgrims on my own; while she saw every nook and cranny of Spain via bus, train, and extensive sightseeing while awaiting my arrival. Then when we’d get together we either stayed at hotel or hostel or every now and then an albergue; sightsee, enjoy our company.
Get yourself a bus and train schedule and camino guide, make a plan, take cells, and you’ll both be just fine.
Buen camino to you both.
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