How many days off did you take on the CF?

[Bolso100]

my advice is to use the Camino guides as just that. A guide. During training you will get a sense of how far to walk a day. The first week is a breaking in period, but also a beautiful journey that should not be rushed. We took an extra day in Pamplona, Leon and Astorga. We also took a train to San Sebastián and Bilbao after Leon to explore.

Put some extra days in your plan for the unexpected. If you live an area and want to stay, then you can. If you are tired or hurt, you can rest.

The most frustrated or disappointed pilgrims we met were those that did not plan enough days for their pilgrimage. It’s not a race to Santiago, it is a beautiful journey.

If you are answering me, I will tell you that I was NOT frustrated at all... each town was well known, and a guy from Hungary did it at the same time as me, and he was not frustrated.
Another thing is that in addition to the Camino you want to do some sightseeing... Then yes, take all the time you can.

 

[Liica]

Licia,

That is exactly what I was thinking. Maybe 3-4 days off on my 30-32 day journey. Sounds like that will yield the balance of walking and enjoying the various towns on the CF

That’s perfect
Those 3, 4 days in the end will be more than necessary to get ready to go back to real life

 

[Phil2866]

I plan to do the CF from SJPDP on March 2025. It appears the number of days is usually 32-33 days. I know people usually take more than 33 days for various reasons.

My question for people that have done the entire CF, what is your experience in regard to number of days? Did you take a day off because you wanted to explore and enjoy a town? Were you just plain exhausted and needed to recharge? Was it an injury? Also, how hard is it to do walk everyday and complete it in 33 days?

Thanks

Around 33 to 35 days all depends on how you feel at the time.

 

[jgiesbrecht]

I plan to do the CF from SJPDP on March 2025. It appears the number of days is usually 32-33 days. I know people usually take more than 33 days for various reasons.

My question for people that have done the entire CF, what is your experience in regard to number of days? Did you take a day off because you wanted to explore and enjoy a town? Were you just plain exhausted and needed to recharge? Was it an injury? Also, how hard is it to do walk everyday and complete it in 33 days?

Thanks

It took me 39 days with no days off. I did have 3 or 4 short days, anywhere from six to twelve kilometers. But I also didn't really explore many places. For me, the goal is to finish not because I was in a hurry or anything, but just because a new, it was gonna be a hard feat for me, 50ish lbs overweight and no training.

 

[Karl Oz]

Weird. My original post said "...bail by Logroño..." and it got changed to "...dance by Logroño..." in Rob's quote of my post.

???

The word 'bailar' means 'dance' in Spanish. You got the conjugated form - I expect you have some sort of spelling auto-correct feature on your device switched-on. Or something...

 

[Frankybaby66]

I think something weird is going on with the Forum. (or my PC)
It took about 10 goes for me to post just now.
Text kept vanishing, my username even changed............

I did wonder about the context of 'dancing'
(edited the post)

Probably some sort of language issue - 'bailar' is the Spanish word for 'to dance' in English

 

[Maureen McGovern]

I plan to do the CF from SJPDP on March 2025. It appears the number of days is usually 32-33 days. I know people usually take more than 33 days for various reasons.

My question for people that have done the entire CF, what is your experience in regard to number of days? Did you take a day off because you wanted to explore and enjoy a town? Were you just plain exhausted and needed to recharge? Was it an injury? Also, how hard is it to do walk everyday and complete it in 33 days?

Thanks

None, walked it in 33 days

 

[DonnaS18]

Took an extra rest day in Burgos- such a fantastic place one day just doesn’t do it justice.
We took 35 days and rested twice- mainly when accommodation was full and weather was terrible.

 

[Getwood]

The word 'bailar' means 'dance' in Spanish. You got the conjugated form - I expect you have some sort of spelling auto-correct feature on your device switched-on. Or something...

Nah, it's Brave browser on my PC. The change happened during Robo's re-quoting of my post -- mebbe he did the quote on a smartphone with DeepL or somesuch.

Or mebbe the forum software's just messing with us. ;-)