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Anyone ridden it?
Some friends have invited us to join them on a trip in July - their plan is to walk it in sections, ours would be to ride each leg, ride back to where we started again (or work it into a loop) then ferry everyones luggage by hire car/van to the next nights accom.
The Camino Frances, the most popular one, is incredibly boring in places. Straight desert roads with distant mountains coming closer not particularly quickly. It might work with your plan though, just some places would be more interesting to ride than others. The coastal route, Camino del Norte, is much more interesting (and demanding), see if they'd be up for that one!
If you can do the Google " site: " search I think you'll find several decent threads on this, IIRR
Where in the world is (the) Camino de Santiago?
France, Portugal, Spain.
Sort of.
I'd not heard of it till I watched a movie called The Way. Good movie.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1441912/
Is on my bucket list now. I'd love to walk it (can take months) or ride some of it as a close second.
It's a pilgrimage. If you want it to be.
Bob summersStraight desert roads with distant mountains coming closer not particularly quickly.
That sounds absolutely idyllic to me. 🙂
Always fancied it after reading [url= https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117772.Travels_with_My_Donkey ]this.[/url]
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Always fancied it after reading this.
That looks great, will add that to my read list.
Urinate on bonfires mode:
About 250,000 people a year do this route now, around a thousand a day in the season. According to friends who've done it, it's like a procession at times: think of the queues at Snowdon'r summit.
Mrs Stoner and I rode from Santander along the northern route (road riding) to Santiago and then back along the camino frances before heading down the southern side of the pyrenees and crossing towards Perpignon.
The Northern parts through Asturias and Galica were beautiful and while there are some very dull bits back through Castille e Leon, there are also some beautiful sections. The northern route is much less busy, and of course riding against the flow of the camino de frances (from W to E) meant not being part of the pack. (although when we didi this 10 years ago it wasnt quite so busy anyway)
North coast not unlike cornwall coast
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Gallician sand
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5am, the best time to explore Camino de Santiago. Very touristy and busy otherwise
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The more boring bits back through the middle
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Not so boring
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Our route
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our blog
http://pompinos.blogspot.co.uk/
Lots of information here https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/forums/biking-the-camino.24/
There are lots of routes from all over Spain and beyond.
The Via de la Plata from Seville has fewer people on it and there is an alternative to joining the CF on the last crowded part.
Where in the world is (the) Camino de Santiago?
...is the exact phrase I came here to post. 😆
We were originally going to buy a property on the Camino, but decided against it. Planning to walk it one year and ride it another. Not sure which we'll do first but we will start at Somport on the Spanish/French border.
i rode it from edinburgh to santiago about eight years ago . it was great but i did it out of season in October , November and December . then rode to porto for a fortnights holiday then cycled back to Santander and ferry home . it was much nicer cycling in France , Spain and Portugal than it was in englandshire where i was pretty much abused as a vagrant
It's not a pilgrimage if you don't get some abuse along the way! Those monks who walk it from the middle east in a vow of silence must be full of pent up rage by the time they get there.
No, but I've walked it twice from home in France and have nearly done a third trip in sections. I wouldn't do it on a bike because part of the experience is walking along with an ever changing group of pilgrims, that and walking for long enough that you start to forget about your normal life and have time for contemplation.