choosing a route

[Barry Evans]

you got me, andrea...it's like choosing between pizza and dessert. all of the
camino for me was easy/hard, boring/exciting, wet/dry, hilly/flat, rural/urban,
crowded/lonely... (often in the same hour!)...
four months later, memories of the meseta linger strongest, perhaps because i
hadn't experienced that sort of dry, flat, endless, treeless country before
(perhaps on the central plains of India?)...but for outright beauty, Galicia
was lush, green, hilly, gorgeous (especially early mornings in the mist)...
not to mess with your mind, but how about doing half this year, half the next.
many people do, and the ones we met seemed to be having as rich experience as
we do-it-in-one-straight-shot folks were.
you probably can't go wrong, as you'll gather from this forum!
best wishes, barryevans

--- Andrea Innes-Michailov <andreaaCORP.IDT.NET> wrote:
> 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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