English leg of Camino.

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• Dec 27, 2022

• #1

Hi all. Article in todays UK media.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/...go-starting-in-reading?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Sounds great, start and finish very close by train to London and very close to London Heathrow Airport. Start very close to Windsor Castle and lots of other walking alongside the Thames River in the beautiful countryside. And some of the most beautiful pubs imaginable. Sorry for the advert, it’s where I live when in UK (the area not the castle or the pub!).

 

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jungleboy

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• Dec 27, 2022

• #2

Thanks for sharing, that looks like a nice route. If there were a boat from Southampton to A Coruña or Ferrol (a quick look on Rome2Rio doesn’t show any), that would really be a fun pilgrimage to undertake.

 

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• Dec 27, 2022

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jungleboy said:

Thanks for sharing, that looks like a nice route. If there were a boat from Southampton to A Coruña or Ferrol (a quick look on Rome2Rio doesn’t show any), that would really be a fun pilgrimage to undertake.

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Yea great point. Southampton (and Portsmouth nearby) has a ferry port and Southampton has an airport so could play around about with some options!

 

JabbaPapa

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• Dec 27, 2022

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The traditional part of the route over the water from Southampton or Portsmouth would be via one of the ports in Northern France, or Bordeaux, or any of the ports in Northern Spain between more or less Bilbao and A Coruña.

If I were to go that way, I might get a morning ferry to Saint Helier in Jersey, spend a day there visiting plus fish and chips for lunch, they're excellent, and some of the great local beer, then an evening ferry to Saint-Malo, where there is a variety of lodging available at various price points, excellent moules marinières, then walk from there.

 

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• Dec 27, 2022

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JabbaPapa said:

The traditional part of the route over the water from Southampton or Portsmouth would be via one of the ports in Northern France, or Bordeaux, or any of the ports in Northern Spain between more or less Bilbao and A Coruña.

If I were to go that way, I might get a morning ferry to Saint Helier in Jersey, spend a day there visiting plus fish and chips for lunch, they're excellent, and some of the great local beer, then an evening ferry to Saint-Malo, where there is a variety of lodging available at various price points, excellent moules marinières, then walk from there.

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Great post. Appetite whetted!

 

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Tom Hughes

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• Dec 28, 2022

• #6

I read this article and immediately got the Camino bug again! Planning to walk it in March 2023

 

Marcus-UK

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• Dec 30, 2022

• #7

jungleboy said:

Thanks for sharing, that looks like a nice route. If there were a boat from Southampton to A Coruña or Ferrol (a quick look on Rome2Rio doesn’t show any), that would really be a fun pilgrimage to undertake.

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It was possible to take cabin space on merchant ships docking at Vigo from the commercial harbours in Southampton. In a similar way it istill possible to take cabin space on the banana boats travelling to and from the caribean. If you were UK armed forces or family memeber it was (and possibly still is) to take space on the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships departing Portsmouth to Gibraltar. My family has traveled on RFA ships to and from my fathers Royal Navy postings around the Med and the far east.

 

Bradypus

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• Dec 30, 2022

• #8

Marcus-UK said:

It was possible to take cabin space on merchant ships docking at Vigo from the commercial harbours in Southampton.

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There was a proposal several years ago for a ferry route between Vigo and Cork with a stop en route in the UK. I've heard nothing more recently so I think the plan may have been a victim of COVID and other events.

Thread 'Ferry between Cork & Plymouth and Vigo starting in 2020' https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...ork-plymouth-and-vigo-starting-in-2020.64734/

 

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jackie59

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• Dec 31, 2022

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JabbaPapa said:

The traditional part of the route over the water from Southampton or Portsmouth would be via one of the ports in Northern France, or Bordeaux, or any of the ports in Northern Spain between more or less Bilbao and A Coruña.

If I were to go that way, I might get a morning ferry to Saint Helier in Jersey, spend a day there visiting plus fish and chips for lunch, they're excellent, and some of the great local beer, then an evening ferry to Saint-Malo, where there is a variety of lodging available at various price points, excellent moules marinières, then walk from there.

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This sounds like a good plan