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Yes. A modified version of the Arles route (Canal du Midi from Sett to Toulouse where we rejoined the Arles), and Turonensis via Orléans. Le Puy via limestone plateau one year and Cele Valley the next.Nicely expressed, Kanga. Have you walked any other French routes?
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Your drooling at Vezelay route very appropriate for your avatar, Newfy. Did you walk this chemin or only Chemin du Puy?
My understanding is that Tours, Vezelay, Arles, Le Puy all traditional starting places f?or medieval christians...
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I am looking forward to Vezelay and spending some time here (well a day or two).
Did you walk from Vezelay to Le Puy as part of your pilgrimage?
I hope to learn of all the options when I am actually in this part of the world.
Which is like...um...soon....
1st eyewitness report from Paris concerning Vezelay-Condom 2014!!
You absolutly encapsulate the Vezelay experience, Scruffy! Glad you arrived safely and had a good time1st eyewitness report from Paris concerning Vezelay-Condom 2014!! The Vezelay route is marvelous demanding little physically but you will often be absolutely alone with your own thoughts memories and reflections most of the time. Bourges cathedral is marvelous but cannot compare with Conques or Moissac. I used the Randonnee GR654 book AND Madame Chassin - her edition is sadly growing very outdated the maps are very good however many places recommended to stay to eat to consider visiting are long gone closed or vanished. Places mentioned as open all year round were found to be before during and after Easter closed due to annual vacation or for rennovations-her route is well marked but often when overlapping exploits the GR654. The Randomee book has excellant maps the route is so well marked the map is un-necessarly except for distances. However! The authors have absolutely no hesitations to send the would be pilgrim down another country lane through another forest path up to another shrine chapel or croix anciene - warnings such as trei humiditee appear often and do not refer to water but shin+ deep mud - these added attractions can add another 5-8 km a day in order to arrive at the same gite found with Chassin - another 150km a month at least. The authors can be lazy recommending accomodation and often simply send one off to the Mairie closed half Saturdays and Sundays or tourist info closed the same and often open only certain days or only mornings. I often combined routes and learned that in early Spring one should absolutely reserve the next night's lodging since some gites are tiny or as mentioned despite the guides not open yet. The Vezelay route then is not as developed or as commercial as other rouytes to SdC, pilgrims always welcomed and even admired; somehow I developed a feeling that the Camino Frances was probably something like this in the 60's an adventure which required a flexibility and initiative now not really demanded. Quite huge glowing fields of rapeweed cream colored cows wisteria by the ton and yes light rain almost every day. Chemin Vezelay in the early Spring is marvelous but not suited for everyone.
I'm seriously considering Le Chemin Le Puy to Santiago as my Camino for next year. This is an excellent thread to familiarize myself with the route!
Right now I've just returned from walking the Portugués and am now preparing for the Inglés combined with Finisterre and Muxia which I begin on August 3rd this year.
I'm seriously considering Le Chemin Le Puy to Santiago as my Camino for next year. This is an excellent thread to familiarize myself with the route!
Right now I've just returned from walking the Portugués and am now preparing for the Inglés combined with Finisterre and Muxia which I begin on August 3rd this year.
After Perigueux one re-enters a gently rolling countryside of wheatfields cows and first sown crs - I needed a final destination with a train to get back to Paris so a bit of the Chemin a bit of several GR's a wine route and local scenic walks and the rest was easy - flexibility and imaginative inititive will get you anywhere.
PS and a big one the French are super kind polite and always generous their only failing concerns the clock - true from just before Limoges the churches all chime the hour twice as in all of southern France - the people are also flexible and imaginitive concerning opening times of gites - if you have a reservation wait and someone will eventually appear!
p.s. I even thought about offering my spare room up to pilgrims... but I'm away a lot so I wouldnt be a very reliable host!)
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