[Gocamino] Chemin de Compostelle--LePuy to Pamplona

[Kathy Gower]

Hi Patricia...

You are talking about my favorite, so far, Camino route.  I don't know where 
you are located, but I flew direct to Paris where I stayed the night in a 
favorite hotel in the Latin Qtr.  The next morning at 6 there is a TGV to 
St. Ettienne, which gets you to a local train going direct to LePuy.  There 
is only that one connection.  The local train will take you through 
spectacular scenery along a river with fly fishermen, etc. to the town of Le 
Puy-en-Velay.

If you are going in the fall, the second week of September is a medieval 
festival in LePuy that is worth staying the day for, but St. Michael's 
Needle (an ancient chapel on top of a volcanic plug) and the Cathedral (also 
atop a volcanic plug) in the center of the old town are well worth it as 
well.  Be sure to see the Black Madonna and the Rock of Fevers in the 
Cathedral and if you can, there is a Pilgrim Mass at 7 am.

Below the Cathedral is a square (as in market) marked with a scallop showing 
the beginning of the Via Podenais.  Both David, the listmaster and Ralph & 
Susan can also tell you more.

The walk itself is not bad overall...rather quite beautiful and historic, 
but it does goes up and down a lot.  There is a road, but why do the road 
when you can traipse through the woods and fields?

I'll let some others tell you more about the gites, food, transbaggage etc. 
and if you're still wondering, ask me about the variants.

Bon Chemin, (or is it bonne?)
Kathy

From: "Mr Charles Rush" <c.c.rushassociates at verizon.net>
To: <gocamino at oakapple.net>
Subject: [Gocamino] Chemin de Compostelle--LePuy to Pamplona
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 00:14:26 -0500

Hello all--I plan to walk from LePuy to Pamplona (where I began the Camino 
Frances last fall) in September.  Any suggestions, advice, etc. will be 
welcome, including the best way to get to LePuy.  Should I fly to Paris and 
take the train and the bus, or is there a better way?

Patricia
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