Questions about the refuges in the French side

[Lia Laura Puglesi]

Hi:

As the time for my trip is approaching, I am reading more and more and I am having more and more questions fro everybody. I hope you can forgive me if I ask things you have already answered through this server.

When I decided to , finally, go to Compostela, I thought that the perfect place to start would be Paris: It si a city I am in love with and I would have the chance to go to many interesting places I still haven't been to.

But reading the info in many websites I ended up realizing it is a path far too full with cars and bicycles and it is pretty dangerous and also not as picturesque as the other 4.

So until today I planned to leave in Vezelay. But reading the diary of a guy who did it in March-April 1996 (it was winter, of course it was harder than in summer) I start having serious doubts about it, as it it seems I am not going to find as much nature and cultural sites as expected. I don't know if it is just his account of his trip or the Via Lemovicense on its own what is boring. I am starting to consider taking the Via Podiensis, starting in Le Puy, because even when the road seems to be much shorter, I've read is the nicest one in terms of nature and there are several walking trails through the forest.

I was also considering starting in Vezelay and look for a way toward the southeast, to have like a second start in Le Puy, after leaving Limoges. Of course that would had a fair amount of Km to our road and maybe we wont finish it before July 25th .

I haven't still gotten any guide and I have seen so much bibliography that I am still not sure about what to get. I need a guide that can help me mostly to know what I can expect to find in each way, I know all of them must be very interesting but I want to start by the one that has involves more "adventure' just to express it some way.

Any piece of advise?

On the other hand is that I have found several descriptions about the refuges along the way in the Spain, BUT NOT SITE DESCRIBING ANY IN THE FRENCH SIDE. Does it mean that I haven't been looking correctly or that there aren't actually refuges along the way in France? I read in this guy diary that he was looking for campsites or sleeping in hotels, the second one is something that my friends from Argentina, cause to the crisis aren't going to be able to afford at all. Anyone knows anything about it? Any idea about the costs of the cheapest lodging

Thank you very much

Lia





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