German guide on the Via de la Plata

[Kkort]

I have heard that the German guide to the Via de la Plata is excellent and very detailed. Can someone please confirm this for me?

 

[Donna Sch]

I have heard that the German guide to the Via de la Plata is excellent and very detailed. Can someone please confirm this for me?

It is. I walked with a German for my first week and that damn guide was spot on almost to the minute. It actually started to get too prescriptive for me as it has every detail possible. I like the occasional surprise. But it also gave accommodation options that I hadn't seen anywhere else eg the pension in Calzadilla.

 

[ranthr]

There are I guess several German guidebooks for VdLP , I used the red ROTHERGUIDE in 2011 and found out that the the yellow OUTDOOR guide was more updated and had better maps and
description. So if I go again, I will bring the yellow outdoor guide.

 

[Waka]

As a point of interest, is the German Yellow Guide for the VDLP in English?

 

[peregrina2000]

As a point of interest, is the German Yellow Guide for the VDLP in English?

Unfortunately, except for the yellow guide to the Francés, all of these German Yellow guides are exclusively in German.

http://www.amazon.de/Raimund-Joos/e/B00457VBBQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

 

[ranthr]

As a point of interest, is the German Yellow Guide for the VDLP in English?

No, but I think it is useful even if I do not speak much German.

 

[murraydv]

I have heard that the German guide to the Via de la Plata is excellent and very detailed. Can someone please confirm this for me?

Available on ebay
Details about TB - Spanien: Jakobsweg - Via de la Plata: Der Weg ist das Ziel - Raimund Joos M

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/TB-Spanien-J...740196?hash=item2106d80164:g:T5oAAOSw7FRWaERs

 

[West Coaster]

There are I guess several German guidebooks for VdLP , I used the red ROTHERGUIDE in 2011 and found out that the the yellow OUTDOOR guide was more updated and had better maps and
description. So if I go again, I will bring the yellow outdoor guide.

Hello Ranthr:

Thanks for the info. I think I found the Red Rother guide but not the Yellow outdoor guide. Do you know where this may exist? When I walked the Camino Frances last year on my own, I did not make a lot of planning everyday. All I wanted to know was how far I was expected to walk and how many Bars were along that way. If I came across something interesting it was totally by surprise. The Bierley guide and myself did not get along well. John

 

[SYates]

I have heard that the German guide to the Via de la Plata is excellent and very detailed. Can someone please confirm this for me?

I am walking at the moment with the German Outdoor guide (yellow book) the Via de la Plata and it is badly out of date ~3 years. Alison Raju is walking the Via de la Plata a few days ahead of me to update her Cicerone guide and if you have the time to wait for its publication that one would be my first choice for a printed guide book.

Buen Camino, SY

 

[alipilgrim]

I think, SYates, that you've been providing excellent information in your LIVE posts, and that will be all the updated info I'll need to supplement the notes I made for myself from this Forum and the Eroski website for when I finally go back to complete my interrupted 2012 VdlP!

 

[ranthr]

Hello Ranthr:

Thanks for the info. I think I found the Red Rother guide but not the Yellow outdoor guide. Do you know where this may exist? When I walked the Camino Frances last year on my own, I did not make a lot of planning everyday. All I wanted to know was how far I was expected to walk and how many Bars were along that way. If I came across something interesting it was totally by surprise. The Bierley guide and myself did not get along well. John

John, I buy the German guidebooks on www.amazon.de. I have used the Le Puy, GR65, guide, the GR653 guide, and have studied a number of others when I wanted to start walking from Denmark. They all look ok for my use. On the Frances I only bring Brierleys mapbook.
Randi

 

[Raimund Joos]

I am walking at the moment with the German Outdoor guide (yellow book) the Via de la Plata and it is badly out of date ~3 years.
Buen Camino, SY

Hi Sybille
As you now we are always publishing the most important updates for the book.

https://www.conrad-stein-verlag.de/...n=978-3-86686-440-5&edition=6&t=1460040892813

Bon Camino !

Raimund

 

[SYates]

Hi Sybille
As you now we are always publishing the most important updates for the book.

https://www.conrad-stein-verlag.de/...n=978-3-86686-440-5&edition=6&t=1460040892813

Bon Camino !

Raimund

I know that page, since I set out to plan the Via and then to walk it, it has changed one time as far as I noticed. And what do you mean please by "As you now we are always publishing the most important updates for the book." ?

SY

 

[Saint Mike II]

I am walking at the moment with the German Outdoor guide (yellow book) the Via de la Plata and it is badly out of date ~3 years. Alison Raju is walking the Via de la Plata a few days ahead of me to update her Cicerone guide and if you have the time to wait for its publication that one would be my first choice for a printed guide book.
Buen Camino, SY

Hola SY - so after promising for some 5 or more years Alison is finally going to get an updated edition of her much vaunted 2005 edition of the Guide to the VDLP. I gave up waiting for the new one - Cecerone kept promising through most of 2012 and early 2013 before finally admitting that they did not know when the next edition would be available. An updated version of the German Yellow book would also be useful - just have a German/English dictionary ap and log-on via the nearest wifi. Cheers.
(PS really enjoyed your report on the La Plata. Mike)

 

[Kanga]

Gentle folks, no need to attach. @SYates I think what is meant is that the guide is updated online.

 

[Raimund Joos]

An updated version of the German Yellow book would also be useful - just have a German/English dictionary ap and log-on via the nearest wifi.

In march I have been walking the Via de la Plata and now I am starting writing the new edition. I dont know when the new come out (depends when the old is soled) but in the Updates you will find the most important informations.

Bon Camino

Raimund

 

[Stacey Wittig]

I just returned last night from VdlP and used Gerald Kelly's guide - loved the maps! It can be purchased at Ivar's bookshop and is available as an app. Another American pilgrim used Kelly's app. As for my fellow pilgrims who were Germans, some used the red, other the yellow. I heard no complaints from any of them.

Interestingly, the only pilgrims that I met were from USA or Germany - other than the Australian couple who were called home on the 2nd day with a family emergency.