November on the Camino France is wonderful. Quiet, safe, comfortable with enough pilgrim infrastructure to have a seamless exitance, enough English speaking people to get to know if one wants company, few enough walkers to have solitude when preferred, a wonderful safe landscape decorated in frost where everyone in Spain honours and knows what you are doing. I have done this particular camino many times, maybe to many times, mostly since I walk out of season in winter. Posts in this forum says the other caminoes are difficult to do this time of year.
My last camino was 3 years ago. Walked the Camino France in September, and the Portuguese in reverse down to Fatima and onwards to Lisbon in Octobre. I like the idea of walking south for winter. I guess that does not make my walk this time, a pilgrimage for Santiago de Compostella. Anyone else going out of most peoples usual comfort zone and doing one of the other caminoes this winter?? Del Norte? Via de la plata? de Lana? Anyone else doing other walks this winter? I do look at the GR92 along the Mediterranean coast, but I wonder if there is less "pilgrim mood" along those routes? No "lights out by ten o'clock at the albergue, and out on the road before 0800 in the morning", or? Anyone?!!
My last camino was 3 years ago. Walked the Camino France in September, and the Portuguese in reverse down to Fatima and onwards to Lisbon in Octobre. I like the idea of walking south for winter. I guess that does not make my walk this time, a pilgrimage for Santiago de Compostella. Anyone else going out of most peoples usual comfort zone and doing one of the other caminoes this winter?? Del Norte? Via de la plata? de Lana? Anyone else doing other walks this winter? I do look at the GR92 along the Mediterranean coast, but I wonder if there is less "pilgrim mood" along those routes? No "lights out by ten o'clock at the albergue, and out on the road before 0800 in the morning", or? Anyone?!!
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