choosing a route

[Andrea Innes-Michailov]

Hi Barry,
I saw your pictures from the beginning of your pilgrimage which I believe
would be st jean to roncesvalles part.  I am not sure I could make it from
St Jean to Santiago in one shot so I wondered if I did start at St Jean,
where would you recommend that I skip?  Meaning what part of the route did
you feel could be skipped over if one had to skip over part of it?

Andrea

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Barry Evans
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 8:16 AM
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Subject: Re: choosing a route
>
>
> Andrea, i understand about 95% of pilgrims choose the St Jean to
> Santiago route
> (of whom only about 20% actually do the entire route, and about 10% do the
> additional 3 days to finisterre).
> (btw, one of my best day's hiking ever = st jean to roncesvalles, so i
> recommend not to skip that part)
> The northern route appeared well marked around San Sebastian (it
> goes right
> through the city) and folks i met in Santaigo who had just
> completed the coast
> route told me it was fairly well marked all the way. they hadn't
> seen another
> pilgrim the whole time, and when their route joined the "main" ("Camino
> Francais") route, they were blown away with the crowds (! as they saw
> them...we, who had been on the main route, just took the odd
> other person as
> normal by then). This was walking last september.
> barryevans
>
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