I have procrastinated long enough. I'm going next summer but... there are serious limitations as to when I can go and I really could do with some reliable advice from those who know about these things.
By way of introduction to the forum, I'm forty-five, live in the NW of Ireland (the nice damp(er)) bit and work in an institution of third level education. I have wanted to do the Camino for about twenty years. I am not impulsive by nature.
Working in a college leaves me in the privileged position of being able to go away for a month or so during the summer, but from what I have read, that will bring its own set of problems for walking the Camino. I can be free for any five week period between Friday, 20th June and Sunday, 31st August, next year. When, do you think is the best time to go within those limits? (I know I'd rather go in May but that's not happening this side of retirement.) I'm planning on starting on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees (Roncevalles?) and ending at Santiago.
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Sean
By way of introduction to the forum, I'm forty-five, live in the NW of Ireland (the nice damp(er)) bit and work in an institution of third level education. I have wanted to do the Camino for about twenty years. I am not impulsive by nature.
Working in a college leaves me in the privileged position of being able to go away for a month or so during the summer, but from what I have read, that will bring its own set of problems for walking the Camino. I can be free for any five week period between Friday, 20th June and Sunday, 31st August, next year. When, do you think is the best time to go within those limits? (I know I'd rather go in May but that's not happening this side of retirement.) I'm planning on starting on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees (Roncevalles?) and ending at Santiago.
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
Sean