[Gocamino] Options to the Camino Frances?

[Donald Schell]

Brandon,

I can't speak of a different route, but of the two different beginnings 
of the Camino Frances.  I've walked from St. Jean Pied de Port across 
the Pyrenees and also crossed Somport Pass and taken the route through 
Jaca.  If you haven't done the Somport beginning, I recommend it.  The 
mountains are really beautiful, the camino is still somewhat less 
populated (until this old route joins the other line of the Camino 
Frances in Puenta Le Reyna) and it's got very pleasant newer refugios 
of larger and smaller scale.  One treat is to see the Cathedral's 
museum in Jaca where the frescoes from several medieval ermitas 
(country chapels) are now displayed.  As you go beyond Jaca, you pass 
the ermitas where the frescoes were painted - some in ruins, some 
whole, but stripped bare.  It seemed to me that there were more of them 
in this section of the Camino than I recall from later on, and the only 
larger museum of this kind of Spanish frescoe art is in Barcelona, so a 
long ways from the Camino.

love,
donald

On May 5, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Brandon Wilson wrote:

> Fellow peregrinos,
>
> I need your opinion. I walked the Camino Frances back in 1999 solo and
> am looking forward to walking it again this summer with my wife. Of
> course we could walk the same route, but I was wondering if there is
> another route across Spain that we could cover in 27 days that would
> have refugios similar to the Camino Frances? I'd considered Ruta de la
> Plata--but late July is not the best time of year to start.
>
> Any thoughts? If so, can you direct me to a website for details and
> maps? Thanks.
>
> Brandon
>
>
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