LIVE from the Camino Day 32 Chateauvillain

[irrie]

We are in Chateauvillain. What an adventure! The VF is much different from the camino’s we did. Less pilgrims, since my last post we’ve met 1 pilgrim.



The everyday planning takes more time. Because we want to walk about 20 km a day we have to divert sometimes from the route to get an accommodation. That was never a problem. The accommodations we booked vary a lot: from supersimple to luxury.



And we have to plan our food. There isn’t every day a restaurant or a supermarket on our way. But when we are in a restaurant we appreciate it even more.



We have had terrible weather in the beginning after Calais. The path was flooded and very muddy at some parts. I only fell in the mud once! But after that we had manu sunny days with a few raindrops. Today should be sunny.



The plan is to go to Lausanne and than go home and to return september to continue the VF.

 

[DreamWeaver]

Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated

 

[roving_rufus]

The VF is Eastern France is definitely more of a stretch and finding an open shop, bar, restaurant can be a challenge! But enjoy!

 

[irrie]

So true! Since Calais we play bingo in every village: eglise: check, mairie: check, monument: check, busshelter: check and for a busshelter with a bench there are extra points!! We had many lunches in the heavy rain in a busshelter eating a baguette of sometimes 2 days old. But we are having the best time of our life!

Yesterday in Chateauvillain all the restaurants were closed because it was a monday, so we went to the supermarket to get some food. This morning we made a coffee in our room and than went to the bakery to get the delicious filled baguette, only to discover than the baker went on a holiday! So we had to get the plain baguette off the vending machine! Breakfast: baguette with nothing. Luckily I had a can of tuna so lunch was saved. It makes you appreciate the little things.

 

[grayland]

My favorite kind of Camino....all unscheduled and everyday an adventure.

The modern commercial/tourist oriented routes have pretty much defeated my interest. I guess you cant go back …..but losing what we had is sad.