choosing a route

[Andrea Innes-Michailov]

Thanks Lisa, I too love water and would really love to go along the coast
but like you I prefer my first time around to be a bit more predictable.  So
far people have said the northern route really had almost no other
travelers.  As a woman alone I am just not comfortable with that.  I guess
if I don't go during the summer months there will be a little less people.
I was thinking September but am now also considering May or June.  Thank you
for your input!  How many miles did you and your son travel and for how
long?
Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Lisa Forman
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:06 PM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Re: choosing a route
>
>
> Andrea-
>  I spent a long time last spring looking at all the different routes -
> getting maps- and info off various web-sites - even wrote to a
> man in England
> who was doing a book (very detailed) on the Northern Route and he sent me
> pages and pages of his instrutions.  I was travelling with my son, and we
> both love water, planned the trip for july and august (HOT HOT HOT) so we
> thought it would be cooler by the sea.
>  Alas, I made the decision to go the Camino Frances simply
> because it is more
> well travelled, and for some odd reason, we thought we would meet
> more people
> and feel more "warm and cozy".  It certainly was well travelled-
> quite over
> populated for my taste, and sometimes we slept outside (no tents) because
> there were no beds at a refugio, and we did not find an 'Inn".
>   But I did take pleasure in seeing and photographing the places
> I had read
> about in so many books before I had left, and there were many
> times I found
> myself walking alone (which is what I really wanted!) Some day I
> would love
> to walk the Northern Route and really see how they differ.
> Buen Camino
> lisa
>