Pamplona to Sarria

[Genecamino55]

Unfortunately, I am not able to walk from Pamplona to Sarria.

Is there a bus or train on September 7th to get me from Pamplona to Sarria ?

 

[henrythedog]

Unfortunately, I am not able to walk from Pamplona to Sarria.

Is there a bus or train on September 7th to get me from Pamplona to Sarria ?

Search for ‘rome to rio’ and use that.

 

[Bradypus]

No direct trains or buses. Might be best to take an ALSA bus to Madrid, another to Lugo, then a short local Monbus service to Sarria.

 

[Genecamino55]

Search for ‘rome to rio’ and use that.

I'm not sure what that means ?

 

[trecile]

I'm not sure what that means ?

Rome2Rio.com is a website that shows you the different options for travel between two points.

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Discover how to get anywhere by searching plane, train, bus, car and ferry routes

www.rome2rio.com

 

[Genecamino55]

Rome2Rio.com is a website that shows you the different options for travel between two points.

Rome2rio: discover how to get anywhere

Discover how to get anywhere by searching plane, train, bus, car and ferry routes

www.rome2rio.com

that looks amazing.. it will change the way I get to Sarria.. but I think in a good way.

 

[Tincatinker]

@Genecamino55 can I ask a couple of questions? These are meant kindly. You’re flying into Paris with a bed booked in St Jean pied de Porte but you’d booked that bed with no idea how to get to it. How did you think that was going to work out? You’ve planned to walk to Pamplona but then need to skip to Sarria, again without knowing how you might achieve that. Why start in France if you don’t have the time to walk to Santiago from France?

Are you sure that you want to spend your time in Europe and on Camino messing about with public transport systems that you seem not to have researched in advance?

In my youth I was perfectly happy to set out on a journey with no particular destination in mind and no clue as to how I would get there but these days I kind of like to have some sort of plan. Have you got one?

 

[Genecamino55]

@Genecamino55 can I ask a couple of questions? These are meant kindly. You’re flying into Paris with a bed booked in St Jean pied de Porte but you’d booked that bed with no idea how to get to it. How did you think that was going to work out? You’ve planned to walk to Pamplona but then need to skip to Sarria, again without knowing how you might achieve that. Why start in France if you don’t have the time to walk to Santiago from France?

Are you sure that you want to spend your time in Europe and on Camino messing about with public transport systems that you seem not to have researched in advance?

In my youth I was perfectly happy to set out on a journey with no particular destination in mind and no clue as to how I would get there but these days I kind of like to have some sort of plan. Have you got one?

My circumstances wont allow me to walk the complete camino. I wanted to start in France.. and finish from sarria to santiago. I am successfully finding ways to do that with the time i have available. This forum has been very helpful at finding those creative solutions. Its not conventional but its working so far.

 

[Ianinam]

My circumstances wont allow me to walk the complete camino. I wanted to start in France.. and finish from sarria to santiago. I am successfully finding ways to do that with the time i have available. This forum has been very helpful at finding those creative solutions. Its not conventional but its working so far.

There is not such a thing as 'the complete camino'. There are many, many different camino's (Camino Primitivo, Camino del Norte, Camino Invierno, Camino Baztan, Camino de Madrid, Via de la Plata, Camino Portugues and many more) and everybody can start where he/she decides.
Many people living in my country (the Netherlands) start at their front-door ... Other people with lack of time start (on the Camino Francés) from Burgos, Sahagún, León, Ponferrada, Sarria, depending how many days/weeks they have.

Like @Tincatinker stated: if you travel from Pamplona to Sarria you will spend your spare time travelling by bus/train from A to B. And why? If you start in SJPdP you will meet other people, have nice chats while walking and during your dinner together. This is called your 'Camino family'.

Then you will leave them in 3/4 days, just for another stressful bus/train travel to Sarria, where you will be in another 'bubble' with different people.

If I were you and if I did not care about obtaining a Compostela, I'd walk as far as my time permits me to do so (and if possible I'd come back next year or so to continue where I stopped last time).
Or, if you want to receive a Compostela, I would start from León or Ponferrada to walk the last stretch of the Camino Francés.
Or: go to Porto and walk the Camino Portugues to Santiago de Compostela.

The whole idea of 'the complete Camino' may be developed since the movie 'The Way', but this is only a (romantized) story in a movie!

There have been Camino's for more than 1000 years, pilgrims came from all places in Europe to Santiago de Compostela, from North, South and East, and they all walked a true Camino!

 

[Tincatinker]

My circumstances wont allow me to walk the complete camino. I wanted to start in France.. and finish from sarria to santiago. I am successfully finding ways to do that with the time i have available. This forum has been very helpful at finding those creative solutions. Its not conventional but its working so far.

OK. Here's a suggestion. From Pamplona take the train or bus to Burgos. From Burgos bus to Leon. From Leon bus to Lugo. From Lugo bus to Sarria. Probably do-able in two days. You'll be mostly following the route of the Camino Frances and you'll get to see, at least glimpse, two of the greatest cities on that route.

You can plan the journey here: https://www.alsa.es/ use the drop down for the English language version if needed.

Happy planning

 

[Grousedoctor]

I think that what folks are getting at is trying to better understand your reasoning for such a disjointed walk. Why a bit at the beginning of the CF and a bit at the end? Some excellent ideas have been offered as to why one might want to walk without such an interruption. When you add together the time it would take to walk from SJPP to Pamplona and the couple days to bus across the country and the walking days from Sarría to SdC, you would have sufficient time to have one continuous journey from SJPP to Burgos for example. Due to limited time, my wife and I did this particular section of the CF a few years ago. As mentioned above, one of the benefits of walking continuously is that you get to interact with the same people who left SJPP around the day you do. This continuity of connection with people was most important for us having a successful Camino even without the intention of reaching Santiago. In any case, just trying to better understand your thinking and offer an alternative or two. Buen Camino.

 

[DanielH]

Rome to Rio site is great suggestion. However, you choose to walk it, Buen Camino

 

[Stephan the Painter]

Unfortunately, I am not able to walk from Pamplona to Sarria.

Is there a bus or train on September 7th to get me from Pamplona to Sarria ?

You already looked at Rome to Rio. And Rome to Rio is great, although I found for complicated itineraries that it's best to check several sources. Below are other websites and apps you should have in your planning toolbox.

I always check Rome to Rio first. But then I also check "Google Maps", "Trainline", "Bla Bla car" and if I'm looking for a plane, "Google Flights".

For Spain only, check the train and bus sites "Renfe.es" and "Alsa.es". For French trains, it's "SNCF connect". Except for Google flights, all of these are both websites and apps you can have on a smartphone.

And I agree with the other comments here. Unless there's a compelling reason, I would not break up the Camino Frances. If I were advising a friend, I would tell them to either just walk as far as they can from SJPP and return another year, or skip that part entirely, and start in Leon or Astorga (10-12 days). I think you will enjoy it more and get more out of it.

Starting in Astorga is a very common route for Spaniards to take. And as far as they are concerned, it's a complete Camino!

Although if you have to break it up, I think that the bus itinerary suggestions from @Tincatinker are excellent.

 

[trecile]

Except for Google flights, all of these are both websites and apps you can have on a smartphone.

Google Flights doesn't have an app, but you can bookmark the site on your browser.

 

[David Tallan]

I think that what folks are getting at is trying to better understand your reasoning for such a disjointed walk. Why a bit at the beginning of the CF and a bit at the end?

I suspect this is just the "skip the meseta" rationale enlarged. Gene has heard that SJPP is "the place to start the Camino" and that the walk over the Pyrenees is the most spectacular section of the Camino. Clearly, it is not to be missed. The walk from Sarria is needed to earn the Compostela. Everything else is dispensable and, with limited time, Gene is dispensing with all of it. Neither you nor I share that opinion about where the Camino (or even the Camino Frances) starts, but if you look at guidebooks, it isn't hard to see where it comes from. I wouldn't make a similar choice. Given similar time limitations and a desire to walk the Frances, I would start in Villafranca del Bierzo or O Cebreiro, or perhaps in Sarria and walk on to Finisterre/Muxia. But I'm not the one asking the question.

 

[Ianinam]

I suspect this is just the "skip the meseta" rationale enlarged. Gene has heard that SJPP is "the place to start the Camino" and that the walk over the Pyrenees is the most spectacular section of the Camino. Clearly, it is not to be missed. The walk from Sarria is needed to earn the Compostela. Everything else is dispensable and, with limited time, Gene is dispensing with all of it. Neither you nor I share that opinion about where the Camino (or even the Camino Frances) starts, but if you look at guidebooks, it isn't hard to see where it comes from. I wouldn't make a similar choice. Given similar time limitations and a desire to walk the Frances, I would start in Villafranca del Bierzo or O Cebreiro, or perhaps in Sarria and walk on to Finisterre/Muxia. But I'm not the one asking the question.

More than half of the time it is cloudy, misty and/or raining up there ...
No beautiful sights, people arrive in Roncesvalles wet, muddy, exhausted and haven't seen anything. They just had a very hard walk.
On a sunny day I always tell the pilgrims they really were very lucky to have had such a beautiful walk!