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@peregrina2000 with your experience, if you had to choose between walking these three outes, which would you take?
Girona > Vic
Vic>Monserrat
Monserrat > Lleida (or any other place that has a train station!)
Very interested to know, thanks
I have seen the thread but I must admit I had not idea how one was meant to utilise it, it seems so... random? I gleaned some great info but maybe just did not understand the structure.Hmm, I love these questions! I will have to look back at my notes and my pictures when I have a bit more time. But my definite first and immediate reaction is that Girona to Vic is my choice. And if I were to do it again, I would extend the route all the way up to Olot, rather than cut over in Sant Esteve (?) and heading to L’Esquirol from there.
Have you seen our planning thread (done during covid confinement), @RhysB?
Personally it would be Monserrat > Lleida ; including because there are more Albergues and more Pilgrims and generally more infrastructure and services.@peregrina2000 with your experience, if you had to choose between walking these three outes, which would you take?
Girona > Vic
Vic>Monserrat
Monserrat > Lleida (or any other place that has a train station!)
We did a bunch of these threads during covid confinement. The “leader” would put out a stage (which many others then would modify, comment on, add to, etc) and we went inch by inch along. You’re right that it’s random. In terms of structure, there is no way to keep the discussion completely linear when people are in different time zones, remembering different things at different times, etc. So it was a lot of fun for us, and gave people a lot of good ideas, but maybe not so helpful for those who come after us. Anyway… on to your question about the choices.I have seen the thread but I must admit I had not idea how one was meant to utilise it, it seems so... random? I gleaned some great info but maybe just did not understand the structure.
Girona > Vic
Vic>Monserrat
Monserrat > Lleida (or any other place that has a train station!)
Granted this was late October and early November (2019) but my encounters were mainly with six walkers headed the other way on the Camino Ignacio. Montserrat: 1; Castellolí: 3 Italians, only one spoke English or Spanish; Cervera: 2 in passing, we gave directions because we all knew the way behind us; Berbegal: 1 multilingual Basque, the only one headed to SdC (he was fast so one night only until we met again on the Aragonese); Bolea: 1, an English speaking Huesca local who often used the albergue as a base for nearby weekend hikes. That's it for about 16 days. I noticed in log books that entries were days apart.Last summer we had pilgrims from the Camino Catalon who met only 2 or three others the whole way until it joined the Aragones.
Our Camino Catalan pilgrims were all fast walkers doing 40 km plus each day. One though had met another pilgrim who he had walked with much of the way. The other pilgrim had some kind of injury and fell behind and was considering abandoning the journey. The night the Jose-Luis was staying with us he heard from his friend and was trying to decide between walking back to Santa Cilia so he and his pilgrim friend could continue the journey together or just continuing his own Camino alone. He had an earnest conversation with me about it and you could tell he was conflicted. He had no particular timeline for his walk as he was a construction worker who could return home and get a job at any time. I told him that whatever decision he made, I believed it would be the right one for him. He did return to Santa Cilia and walked on with his friend. The plan was to make it to Santiago and I hope they did.Granted this was late October and early November (2019) but my encounters were mainly with six walkers headed the other way on the Camino Ignacio. Montserrat: 1; Castellolí: 3 Italians, only one spoke English or Spanish; Cervera: 2 in passing, we gave directions because we all knew the way behind us; Berbegal: 1 multilingual Basque, the only one headed to SdC (he was fast so one night only until we met again on the Aragonese); Bolea: 1, an English speaking Huesca local who often used the albergue as a base for nearby weekend hikes. That's it for about 16 days. I noticed in log books that entries were days apart.
Most of the Aragonese had three of us spending the night together but we walked separately.
Totally agree, and if you can pull it off, try to spend the night there in the pilgrim accommodations. I was overwhelmed with huge crowds when I arrived there on a weekend afternoon, but by late afternoon, it was almost eerily silent and just spectacular.My advice: don’t miss Montserrat
The same for the mornings.Totally agree, and if you can pull it off, try to spend the night there in the pilgrim accommodations. I was overwhelmed with huge crowds when I arrived there on a weekend afternoon, but by late afternoon, it was almost eerily silent and just spectacular.
eh, I went straight from Manresa to Igualada on tarmac, and regret it not in the slightest.My advice: don’t miss Montserrat
This previous post of mine shows a map and picture of the first arrow I found. It is where you leave the built up area of Barcelona and enter the park and woods.From Barcelona, the route up via Sant Cugat del Vallès from the Sagrada Familia (towards Montserrat) seems good ;
We did a bunch of these threads during covid confinement. The “leader” would put out a stage (which many others then would modify, comment on, add to, etc) and we went inch by inch along. You’re right that it’s random. In terms of structure, there is no way to keep the discussion completely linear when people are in different time zones, remembering different things at different times, etc. So it was a lot of fun for us, and gave people a lot of good ideas, but maybe not so helpful for those who come after us. Anyway… on to your question about the choices.
JP is right that Monserrat to Lleida will have more pilgrim infrastructure. In fact, the other two options have none or very little. I did the Huesca variant, so I only did a stage or two from Monserrat that overlaps with the Lleida variant. Those first few days had a fair amount of road walking, and after Monserrat, the natural environment wasn’t as spectacular.
Vic - Monserrat has those days in and out of Manresa that are not so great. It all comes with the camino, of course, but if you’re only walking 4 or 5 days, it would not be my choice for a sampler.
Girona-Vic is in my opinon the most beautiful by a long shot. And if you take the detour to St. Pere de Casseres, you get the extra treat of the romanesque monastery of St. Pere de Casseres and the neolithic sites that were really fascinating. But I would agree with those that say it doesn’t really have much of a Camino feeling. What it’s got is the scenery, the architecture and it’s bookended by two very nice places.
I don’t think you’re likely to meet any other peregrinos on this route, but I loved it all!
My advice: don’t miss Montserrat
I know this place well, I hike to San Cugat from here oftenThis previous post of mine shows a map and picture of the first arrow I found. It is where you leave the built up area of Barcelona and enter the park and woods.
I think there are three routes from Barcelona to Monserrat and two go to Sant Cugat. Somewhere on the forum I read that there are now arrows through the city to direct you to one of them.I know this place well, I hike to San Cugat from here oftenI had no idea it was the camino route.
There are about half a dozen from Barcelona itself, plus three or four from its suburbs, plus a few more passing through Barcelona and/or its suburbs. Plus multiple variants. Things only really get simple from Igualada onwards.I think there are three routes from Barcelona to Monserrat and two go to Sant Cugat.
Hello, my son and I rode our horses across the Pyrenees and south to Figueres, then west to Lleida. This was in 2012 when the Cami de St Jaume wasn't particularly well known, but the signage was brilliant. We stayed in hostels occasionally (a bit complicated if you have horses with you!) and sometimes we camped. For us, the most spectacular and beautiful part of the route was between Vic and Montserrat - the views were perhaps even better than most as they were from the additional height of a horse! Everyone we met was incredibly welcoming.@peregrina2000 with your experience, if you had to choose between walking these three outes, which would you take?
Girona > Vic
Vic>Monserrat
Monserrat > Lleida (or any other place that has a train station!)
Very interested to know, thanks
I actually walked this backwards this week on my way back from Rubí. I love the CollserolasI know this place well, I hike to San Cugat from here oftenI had no idea it was the camino route.
The description of the path following the old train tracks from Girona to Olot really had me wanting to walk it.We did a bunch of these threads during covid confinement. The “leader” would put out a stage (which many others then would modify, comment on, add to, etc) and we went inch by inch along. You’re right that it’s random. In terms of structure, there is no way to keep the discussion completely linear when people are in different time zones, remembering different things at different times, etc. So it was a lot of fun for us, and gave people a lot of good ideas, but maybe not so helpful for those who come after us. Anyway… on to your question about the choices.
JP is right that Monserrat to Lleida will have more pilgrim infrastructure. In fact, the other two options have none or very little. I did the Huesca variant, so I only did a stage or two from Monserrat that overlaps with the Lleida variant. Those first few days had a fair amount of road walking, and after Monserrat, the natural environment wasn’t as spectacular.
Vic - Monserrat has those days in and out of Manresa that are not so great. It all comes with the camino, of course, but if you’re only walking 4 or 5 days, it would not be my choice for a sampler.
Girona-Vic is in my opinon the most beautiful by a long shot. And if you take the detour to St. Pere de Casseres, you get the extra treat of the romanesque monastery of St. Pere de Casseres and the neolithic sites that were really fascinating. But I would agree with those that say it doesn’t really have much of a Camino feeling. What it’s got is the scenery, the architecture and it’s bookended by two very nice places.
I don’t think you’re likely to meet any other peregrinos on this route, but I loved it all!
The Association has them, but they are only open on Tuesday and Friday from 7-9 pm.Hi all! In the end I am walking Girona to Vic (from this Thursday!), does anyone know if I can get a credential in Girona? I thought it could be a good souvenir for my partner as it is her first time walking any part of camino.
The answer to that question is, always, YES! (Records of actual trips are the antidote to questions about bedbugs and snoring!!)I just got back, do you think there is any benefit to me sharing my experience? If so, where? This place is so big!
@peregrina2000
I just got back, do you think there is any benefit to me sharing my experience? If so, where? This place is so big!
@peregrina2000
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