Chambre / Refugio at Vezelay

[franck_franck]

Hejo and all the best for you within this blog.

We will start our tour at Vezelay on the 3rd of September and looking for an overnight posiibility from the 3rd to the 4th of September 2012.

Can anyone give us a hint where we can find a place to sleep?

... in addition to that
We bought the "yellow cards" and will takte the "green route" via Bourges.
Does someone have expirients with places to sleep on that way?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Cheers
Frank

 

[mspath]

Hejo and all the best for you within this blog.

We will start our tour at Vezelay on the 3rd of September and looking for an overnight posiibility from the 3rd to the 4th of September 2012.

Can anyone give us a hint where we can find a place to sleep?

... in addition to that
We bought the "yellow cards" and will takte the "green route" via Bourges.
Does someone have expirients with places to sleep on that way?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Cheers
Frank

Frank,

Vezelay, the magnificent hill top monastery village in Burgundy, is a wonderful place from which to begin your Camino! How lucky you are.

Use this Vezelay tourism web site in French http://www.vezelaytourisme.com/ or in English http://en.vezelaytourisme.com/sommaire_ang.htm to help you find a room either in a pilgrim albergue or public accommodations.

In Vezelay the Association des Amis et Pélerins de Saint-Jacques de la voie de Vézelay
is located at 24 Rue Saint-Pierre, Phone .03 86 32 38 11. Their most useful site for pilgrims in Vezelay is http://www.vezelay-compostelle.eu


Please give my best to the 'la colline eternelle' or ' the eternal hill' when you are there.

Bon chemin and Buen Camino!

Margaret

 

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The gite in Vezelay is on the right just before the church. The tourist office is useful when open, but has the normal French closings.

Many of the gites along the way are small, so it is good the crowds are small. For many of the accommodations you need to call ahead. Local organizations have volunteers who open their homes to pilgrims. They need advance notice, and they may pick you up at the church for the ride to their home. Phone numbers are in the guide books. If you need assistance calling ahead, ask your current host, or stop in a tourist office. Some French skills are quite useful on this route, but not absolutely required if you are patient and good at pantomime! We stayed one place where the host had built a gite in an addition to his home at the request of the local friends of the chemin group. He had few non-French guests, but had learned early that English speaking guests could converse if he used French one word at a time, as if speaking to a five year old. My comprehension went from 20% to 80% that evening! If you are not fluent in French, ask others to speak slowly.

Bon chemin!

 

[Luka]

That's a pity... I am arriving the 4th in Vézelay... Just the day after you.

Thanks for the information about where to sleep. I would prefer the pilgrim's refuge, I think.

 

[spit2000]

That's a pity... I am arriving the 4th in Vézelay... Just the day after you.

Thanks for the information about where to sleep. I would prefer the pilgrim's refuge, I think.

Hallo Luka,

may be we visit us on the tour. Will you walk the way over Bourges?

Frank

 

[Luka]

No... I walk from Vézelay to Le Puy en Velay (the route through the Morvan)