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Thanks so very much! I value your great knowledge and experience, and am delighted with your help.Deb,
Glad to learn that you soon will be visiting Paris! Hopefully it will be warmer then than it is today!
For more many tips/links re Paris and the camino do check out this recent post.
Happy planning and Bon voyage!
Yay, Deb!I have purchased my next ticket to Europe to do more walking, this time on the Le Puy route! I'll try to get to Santiago de Compostela again too, of course, but have booked about three weeks.Deb
I have purchased my next ticket to Europe to do more walking, this time on the Le Puy route!
Hi Deb,Little musical allusion there (please keep that song out of my head).
I have purchased my next ticket to Europe to do more walking, this time on the Le Puy route! I'll try to get to Santiago de Compostela again too, of course, but have booked about three weeks.
I'll fly into Paris--I've never been there!--and then I'll fly out of Madrid. Cool, right? That way, I'll be able to see the Eiffel Tower and a few important things around Paris. Nothing is in stone. If I fall in love with Paris, well, I may stay there for three or four nights.
Then, I'll make my way to a good place to begin the Le Puy route. I think that will give me an interesting new experience!
Buen Camino---
Deb
Hi Deb,
I've spent a couple of months in Paris recently, one month each on two trips over a couple of years. I love it. I love just walking around but this year my feet were very sore after my CF, went out every day anyway. I've never done the most popular, iconic stuff - too crowded. Seeing The Eiffel Tower can take a big chunk out of a short stay (not if you walk up the stairs to the first "floor" first thing in the morning). It's elitist and expensive and crowded with too many pesky tourists and it's pretty grubby. But it's Paris. No matter how long you stay, you'll go back. I went for a week the first time and the day I left I was already on my way back.
Maybe you know the story of the German general who was in charge of Paris towards the end of WW2. (They made a big movie called "Is Paris Burning?") His orders were to reduce it to ashes and rubble if things started to go bad. As the allies got close, General Dietrich von Choltitz delayed setting off all the rigged explosives. He couldn't do it.
I'll send some info about how to get the best out of a short stay. Check out how to get a weekly subway ticket (runs out Sunday night). Some train stations to be avoided Friday and Saturday nights. Etc.
There's a bunch of Paris pics on my website miketrebert.com
Buen camino, - Mike
Not to mention Northern Spain. More than once.I am more confident I will be able to get around Paris, having successfully maneuvered my way all over London and Scotland!
Not to mention Northern Spain. More than once.
I hope you will forgive me, Deb...but today I find myself channeling Dr. Seuss:
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."
Oh, the places you'll go!!!
Bon Chemin and Buen Camino!
Buttinski me. Apologies. Have a wonderful trip.You are too kind! I am more confident I will be able to get around Paris, having successfully maneuvered my way all over London and Scotland!
Congrats, Deb. Always good to have a booked flight to look forward to! What time of year are you going? You may already know this, but the LePuy route to St. Jean is very crowded in May and booking at least a day ahead seems to be required. I walked from LePuy years ago in late May and there were lots of French walkers who walk for a couple of weeks. It is more of a GR in France than a camino, IMO. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it does mean you get a lot more people who just plop down with a two week plan and then pick up the next year where they let off. Buen camino, LaurieLittle musical allusion there (please keep that song out of my head).
I have purchased my next ticket to Europe to do more walking, this time on the Le Puy route! I'll try to get to Santiago de Compostela again too, of course, but have booked about three weeks.
I'll fly into Paris--I've never been there!--and then I'll fly out of Madrid. Cool, right? That way, I'll be able to see the Eiffel Tower and a few important things around Paris. Nothing is in stone. If I fall in love with Paris, well, I may stay there for three or four nights.
Then, I'll make my way to a good place to begin the Le Puy route. I think that will give me an interesting new experience!
Buen Camino---
Deb
Congrats, Deb. Always good to have a booked flight to look forward to! What time of year are you going? You may already know this, but the LePuy route to St. Jean is very crowded in May and booking at least a day ahead seems to be required. I walked from LePuy years ago in late May and there were lots of French walkers who walk for a couple of weeks. It is more of a GR in France than a camino, IMO. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it does mean you get a lot more people who just plop down with a two week plan and then pick up the next year where they let off. Buen camino, Laurie
No, but I will!Hurray, Deb! Enjoy all the planning. Have you seen "Midnight in Paris" with Owen Wilson, directed by Woody Allen?
Lol, you misunderstood.Buttinski me. Apologies. Have a wonderful trip.
I may have JUST ENOUGH time to make it to Cahors...Oh! I loved the LePuy to SDC and I left mid-May but did not find it all that crowded as mentioned above. I did find it more challenging than the CF but so lovely! By the time I got to Cahors, I felt like I was in shape again. Some mighty long climbs and a few very steep ones - but beautiful! Buen Camino
Don't mind me, I'm often tone deaf. Sounds as though you might be still finalising your schedule so maybe not sure how long in Paris. I could suggest a couple of ways to see a lot in even a day. The trick might be not wasting valuable time. I'll watch this thread and when your schedule is set a bit more solidly I'll post again.Lol, you misunderstood.
I mean--THANKS so much, and I LIKE your help, as I get nervous going to places I've never been, although (pat on the back to me), I survived my Britain trip a few months back without getting run over, lol!
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