Steven B
Old occasional walker
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances SJPDP, Le Puy, Next the Via Feancegina
Hi All,
I leave Australia on the 4th Jul 23 and start walking UK to Mont Saint Michel on the 8th July then travel to Vezelay. I am working on the Vezelay route and have downloaded guides and gpx files etc.
The GR 654 is the route mostly referred to and I have the gpx file. However some comments and text also refer to walking the traditional route as a better alternative to the GR 654, it is also more direct and this alternative is being further developed by associations etc in some areas.
I am having trouble determine the difference in the two routes. I cannot locate a gpx or kml file for the more traditional route or seem to find where it deviates from the GR654. Is this info available anywhere?
In any event I do have a tendency to often go my own way and ignore the GR path when I prefer another way. I.e. On the Le Puy The GR 65 often keeps you in the woods and in the hedge rows when I prefer to see the farms and villages so I switched to walking from Church steeple to the next church steeple when I could see in the right direction. Enjoyed this much more. I noted doing this there were many more stone crosses at intersections and suspect it was the same way the pilgrims of old navigated as well. I expect much of the more traditional route would now have a main road over it!
Thanks in advance
I leave Australia on the 4th Jul 23 and start walking UK to Mont Saint Michel on the 8th July then travel to Vezelay. I am working on the Vezelay route and have downloaded guides and gpx files etc.
The GR 654 is the route mostly referred to and I have the gpx file. However some comments and text also refer to walking the traditional route as a better alternative to the GR 654, it is also more direct and this alternative is being further developed by associations etc in some areas.
I am having trouble determine the difference in the two routes. I cannot locate a gpx or kml file for the more traditional route or seem to find where it deviates from the GR654. Is this info available anywhere?
In any event I do have a tendency to often go my own way and ignore the GR path when I prefer another way. I.e. On the Le Puy The GR 65 often keeps you in the woods and in the hedge rows when I prefer to see the farms and villages so I switched to walking from Church steeple to the next church steeple when I could see in the right direction. Enjoyed this much more. I noted doing this there were many more stone crosses at intersections and suspect it was the same way the pilgrims of old navigated as well. I expect much of the more traditional route would now have a main road over it!
Thanks in advance