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    Absolutely terrified to start

    to add to the wonderful advice above: you can show up for that first step in the road somewhat disorganised. Having a vague plan and most of the things you think will help you out is plenty. The road will provide the rest if you trust it. There are shops and kind people along the way, and so...
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    Camino Portugués - lessons learned

    Congratulations on finishing the walk! Sounds like a beautiful yet challenging route. Thank you for the debriefing. I don’t know if I’ll ever walk this via, but I love reading these lessons learned from someone who was just there, and I know they are invaluable for those about to start this route.
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    Skipping a day

    I’d say that you do your journey how you see fit and if you visit the places where stamps can be given before and after your bus journey, and it feels right & fun, then go for it! If you are doing it for spiritual or religious reasons then meditate/pray about it and see what the right answer is...
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    Gear list for Via Campaniensis

    I used a Big Agnes Rapide Wide & Long. That is worth its tiny bit of weight in gold for anyone who is tall, not very thin and a tummy/side sleeper. It is probably more comfortable than my mattress at home - I’m not even kidding. In some gites I slept on the stone floor on my mattress instead...
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    Gear list for Via Campaniensis

    In summer: one that is very light, or even just a sleeping bag liner (if your tent can keep some warmth in, like my Durston xmid -2 solid. It gets to about 12 degrees at night and on some nights it was 30 degrees until about midnight. In almost all gites and at people’s homes they all provided...
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    Gear list for Via Campaniensis

    Hi all, I wanted to post about some of the gear that I took on the Via Campaniensis in the north of France in Summer season, so others can decide what they want to bring on this stretch of the Camino. A couple of things that were essential, in my opinion: The French Campaniensis society...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    I made it to Vezelay!!! I walked to Vermenton, to meet up with my sister and family, which was a very happy reunion. The camp site patron had not stamped a Credencial before. He was very weary of it, and said a few times that he would not sign the document. I assured him, that I only needed a...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    I am in St Cyr Les Colons! The heat has been brutal these last few days. I have started very early in the morning and stopped walking around noon or a little later each day, and still… it is so hot! I stayed the night in Eaux-Puiseaux on the loveliest small farm camping. They sold fresh...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    That’s okay! 😄 I wrote last when I was in Epernay. From Epernay, I walked to Monmort-Lucy and stayed at a farm near Lucy that had a room especially for pelgrims. Very nice. Then I walked on to Thalus-Prix and slept in the 12th century Cistercian abbey, founded by St. Bernard of Clairvaux! That...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    I’m in Epernay! I walked from Reims to Rilly-la-Montagne, which was a fairly easy going walk. It was great to enter the land of champagne fields and champagne making houses. There was no shade and it was very hot, but I managed the walk before midday, so it was hard but doable. I stayed at one...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    Yes supplies are truly difficult to figure out here! Although I do think that people would give me some food if I asked them for it, I am definitely carrying more weight than I’d like just to be able to have decent meals without having to ask for anything. Also, like last year, many of the...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    I spent the night in St Loup de Champagne with a lovely lady, who cooked a 5 course meal for me! It was St Jacques feast day, so it had to be celebrated! The road from Chateau Porcien to Saint Loup was not very nice. I mostly walked on the side of the road. There were a few very beautiful...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    Sorry to hear about the accident, and great to read you will be starting again! I am in Château-Porcien currently! I stayed the night in Lalobbe with a very lovely couple. There were some mud jungle bits left, but mostly that walk was very lovely and not too difficult. Then I went on to...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    Thank you, that is very kind! I am in Sevigny l’Abbaye now. The mayor of Aubigny-les-Pothees brought us our supplies for breakfast & lunch yesterday morning, and then it was time for the next day’s walk. I slept in Sevigny l’Abbaye today. I chose to ‘only’ walk 10 km, and that was the right...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    I am currently in Aubigny-les-Pothees. It was a 22 km walk in 30 degrees Celsius heat with very little shadow. I wanted to walk to l’Echelle (15 km), but there was no place to sleep there yesterday. It was a very challenging walk, due to the heat. I have ortostatic intolerance due to the Lyme...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    Thank you all! I made it to Rocroi yesterday afternoon. The road from Couvin to Rocroi was very beautiful on the Belgian side. Beautiful forests and really well kept paths through them. There was one part, high up above a gorgeous lake, that was slightly scary in terms of tumbling down a slope...
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    LIVE from the Camino Orione on the Via Campaniensis (Northern France)

    I am starting my next leg of the Camino tomorrow - so excited! Deo volente, I will arrive in Couvin by train tomorrow & will try to make my way to Rocroi, the starting point of the Via Campaniensis/ La Voie Champenoise. Right now I’m in a youth hostel in Charleroi. I hope I will be able to...
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    Tips for a disabled person

    I met a couple who walked the camino together. The man could not walk very far. They would wake up in the campervan, walk for a few kilometers together, have a lovely picnic breakfast outdoors. Then the woman walked on and the man returned to the campervan, driving to the location that his...
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    Questions - leaving for the Via Campaniensis soon!

    Thank you, ThreeWishes! That is very valuable information. What made you choose the GR654 route between Reims & Troyes over the Campaniensis one, if you don’t mind sharing? For future pilgrims, I just found a gps track that leads from Couvin directly to the french border, very close to Rocroi...
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    Questions - leaving for the Via Campaniensis soon!

    Thank you so much! These maps gave me a little more info on a walking route from Couvin to Rocroi, for the last part, at least. I think the last part may have been the route that I walked into Rocroi from last year, too! That will be nice to revisit. The GR 654 intersects and overlaps with some...

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