Oldtimers can i pick pick your brains for a sec ?

JoroAtanasof

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• Yesterday at 8:49 PM

• #1

So since 2018 i compleated Camino Frances/Portuges/Primitivo/Norte . Some of them more than once . It may sounds like a lot (FB) but not in this forum ..... I don't have any plans for 2025 camino and to be honest i dont feel the calling like i used to . However just in case can you recomend some of the other routes ? 2 or 3 weeks time perhaps , April till October ? And yes i have other plans for 2025 like TMB and possibly bikepacking ruta de la plata (i don't think of it as camino/pilgimage though ) .

 

Kiwi-family

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• Yesterday at 9:16 PM

• #2

Mozarabe? Levante? Invierno?
Or are you drawn to something else? Kilamanjaro? Machu Picchu? Everest Base Camp? Trans Siberian Railway? a cruise?

 

JoroAtanasof

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• Yesterday at 9:32 PM

• #3

Kiwi-family said:

Mozarabe? Levante? Invierno?
Or are you drawn to something else? Kilamanjaro? Machu Picchu? Everest Base Camp? Trans Siberian Railway? a cruise?

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i am quite interested what is your opinion/recommendations about those 3 caminos . Most of the places in your second sentence are memories a part from the cruises

 

rappahannock_rev

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First one in 1977 by train. Many since then by foot. Next one ASAP.

• Yesterday at 9:56 PM

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Camino Aragones: Lourdes to Oloron, then up over the Somport Pass to Jaca, and from there on to Puente la Reina/Pamplona..... Did it in 2018.... Desperately wish that I could do it again someday!

 

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C clearly

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• Yesterday at 11:47 PM

• #5

JoroAtanasof said:

can you recomend some of the other routes

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The forum has threads for 31 routes in Spain in addition to the Camino Francés. Browsing through some of those sections might help focus your questions.

 

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Perambulating Griffin

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• Today at 12:03 AM

• #6

rappahannock_rev said:

Camino Aragones: Lourdes to Oloron, then up over the Somport Pass to Jaca, and from there on to Puente la Reina/Pamplona..... Did it in 2018.... Desperately wish that I could do it again someday!

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Ok... I'm interested. Do you have an itinerary for the first leg from Lourdes to Oloron?

 

trecile

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• Today at 12:36 AM

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Perambulating Griffin said:

Ok... I'm interested. Do you have an itinerary for the first leg from Lourdes to Oloron?

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Lourdes is on the Piamonte route.

Camino del Piamonte | Camino de Santiago | Gronze.com

El Camino del Piamonte es el camino jacobeo que discurre a lo largo del Prepirineo francés, pasando por Narbonne, Carcassonne, Lourdes y Oloron hasta Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, y que comparte trazado con el GR-78. Considerado hasta hace pocos años una variante del Camino de Arles, estamos ante un...

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When you get to Oloron-Sainte-Marie you continue onto the Arles route to Somport, then the Camino Aragonés.

Camino de Arles | Camino de Santiago | Gronze.com

El Camino de Arles, también conocido como Vía Tolosana por atravesar Toulouse, la capital de Occitania, es uno de los cuatro grandes itinerarios jacobeos de Francia. Mencionado ya en el Códice Calixtino (s. XII), con sus grandes hitos en Arles, Saint-Gilles, Montpellier y Toulouse, en la...

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Camino Aragonés | Camino de Santiago | Gronze.com

El Camino Francés por Aragón o Camino Aragonés enlaza el puerto de Somport en la frontera hispano-francesa con la localidad navarra de Puente la Reina, donde se une al Camino Francés procedente de Roncesvalles. El Camino Francés por Aragón debe su origen al Camino de Arles (Vía Tolosana), una de...

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rappahannock_rev

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Perambulating Griffin said:

Ok... I'm interested. Do you have an itinerary for the first leg from Lourdes to Oloron?

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I had no guidebook in 2018 -- and relied entirely upon the good services of Amawalkers and the Forum's own sillydoll.... (I had made previous visits to Lourdes in 1977 and 1978 for --well, let's just say "professional reasons". It's a strange and wonderful place!) I don't think that there is a guidebook even today.

Day 1 - Lourdes to Betharram, 17 km.
Day 2 - Betharrem to Arudy, 23.4 km
Day 3 - Arudy to Oloron, 23.2 km

Walking through that stretch of southern France was like walking through the Shire.... Absolutely charming.

 

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