Pontarlier to Jougne. Last day in France! Nice walk up into Jura mountains and then spectacular views of Chateau de Jous, a castle fortress protecting the mountain pass since 11th century. Continued great forest walking on a pleasant day. Even though we got lost lengthening the day it did not damper our spirits as it …
Montboillon to Chapelle des Buis: Stopped in Besançon to take in some very impressive Roman ruins and the Cathedral St. Jean as well as a tour of Victor Hugo’s house. About 3:00 we headed up mountain which was a great feeling after 30 days of mostly flatlands to Chapelle des Buis, a Franciscan monk center. …
Days 27-29: Torcenay to Champlitte to Sevoux to Montboillon: One important point about this or any pilgrimage is not to be too rigid in your plans. We are growing a bit tired of the relatively flat farmlands since Reims and looking forward to the mountains. It is difficult realizing that after 4 weeks we are …
Day 25 Blessonville to Marac 24K Day 26 Marac to Torcenay 31K From Blessonville we walked on historical route road 8k to Richebourg and then veered right into a forest on the VF for a nice walk to Mormant and Templar abbey. Final stretch is historical route which closes with another forest walk and then …
Day 23 Unienville to Bar-Sur-Aube 20K Day 24 Aube to Blessonville 39K An interesting 2 days as the weather has broken and it is pleasant walking even in the afternoon. Although 39K was a bit of a stretch we hopefully won’t repeat. We ran out of water on the long day and trudged through a …
Donnement to Unienville: I woke early at 5:30 so filled up my thermos with hot tea and walked outside the garage and set up a small table and sat for an hour watching the sky turn blue, orange, yellow, and red. Michel joined me at 6:00 and Mika shortly after. Beautiful start to the day. …
Coole to Donnement: We left Brigitte’s and Jean-Claude’s at 7:30 and Brigette walked the first K with us. What a lovely end to our beautiful stay! Then we walked hard as it is supposed to reach 37C today. Best to get done early. We continued on the historical route due south. We were welcomed in …
Day 20 Châlons-en-Champagne to Coole 28K Today was the kind of day that makes this pilgrimage special. We once again were welcomed by a kind and hospitable pilgrim friendly husband and wife. From Châlons we decided to take the alternate route due south as the terrain is a bit redundant and we can make up …
Day 14 Seraucourt-le-grand to Bertaucourt 32K Day 15 Bertaucourt-Epourdon to Laon 27k Day 14 was one more tough walk on a hot day and we had to go 1 1/2K off trail to find a supermarket as there are no facilities in Bertaucourt. However, the experience in Laon was exceptional. We stopped …
It was the second day of my Camino which started in Le Puy-en-Velay. It was hot over 30C and I was trying to make it to Le Sauvage. I had only walked about 23K when I reached the little village of Le Villeret d’Apchier and still had another 8K to Le Sauvage. I stopped at …
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