Chemin Via Podiensis from Le Puy to Conques

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May 9, 2025
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Arrival and travel to Le Puy
May 9, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
For the first time, we flew Air Canada to get here. We started at 5 AM on Thursday, changed in Denver, then to Montreal and finally arrived in Paris early Friday morning. We had a few hours to wait in Paris for our train that would take us to Le Puy en Velay. We changed trains in St. Etienne, where we met Connie and Carolyn and Larry, who were coming off a train from Barcelona. So we ended up all arriving in Le Puy at the same time. We are renting an Airbnb apartment in a 5th floor walk up. 😬 After checking in, we went to get dinner at a crêperie.Read more
Traveler Did you stay in ur favorite bed & breakfast that you told Bob and me about on our 3-day trip from Berlin to Paris.
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Traveler Yum!
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Traveler Gosh, that looks so familiar; just like it was yesterday😘
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Le Puy en Velay
May 10, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
What a beautiful town! Just under 19,000 people, Le Puy contains much more than one would think going by the population. We stayed the entire weekend so we could recover from jet lag, and have some time to soak in the cuteness of the town. On Saturday we went to the Cathedral of Notre Dame and checked out the Pilgrim welcome center. Then we walked 600 steps up to the church of Saint Michaels, which was built in 961 at the Apex of a volcanic spire. On Sunday, we took it very easy, just strolling around town to see the sites, preparing to start what is said to be a very difficult Camino on Monday.Read more
TravelerThis is adorable
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TravelerOh, this leg us definitely on my bucket list!!
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Traveler How wonderful; I would love to go to Spain, especially the Basque region as I am a little bit Basque.especially yhevNadqur
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Le Puy to Montbonnet
May 12, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 54 °F
A lot of climbing today, we walked about 17 km and most of it uphill. It was very beautiful though, we enjoyed the views. It was our first day and we weren’t used to carrying our packs so it was a little rough.Read more
Traveler There were steps and then more steps, just the beginning of this Camino with many ups and down
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Traveler It’s very beautiful up on top of the world!
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Montbonnet to Monistrol-D’Alliers
May 13, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F
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Monistrol-d’Allier to Saugues
May 14, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
This was supposed to be a 12 km day, as usual it ended up being a couple of kilometers longer, at least for everyone else. I ran out of speed at about 8 km in, after all the climbing, and was able to get a ride for the remainder of the day’s walk from a woman who ran a snack bar out of her house. After that, I decided to have my bag transported, so it would be easier for me to keep with the group and not have to burden anyone else with my stuff.Read more
Great idea Tina! [Judy Strodtman]
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Wow, wish it had been that easy on our 1,000 acre ranch. It could have been … [SusanBoard]
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I want to go💕 [Susan board]
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Sauges to Domaine du Sauvage
May 15, 2025 in France ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
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Sauvage to Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnote
May 16, 2025 in France ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
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Limagnote to Aumont-Aubrac
May 17, 2025 in France ⋅ ☀️ 61 °F
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A.-Aubrac to Finieyrois
May 18, 2025 in France ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
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Finieyrois to Nasbinals
May 19, 2025 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 61 °F
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Saint-Chely-d-Aubrac
May 20, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 59 °F
I love traveling with you through your photos, you are seeing some amazing sights! It does look like hard work though 🤭 [Nancy]
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TravelerThanks, Nancy, I haven’t been very good about explaining any of my photos, I’m hoping to do it while we’re relaxing at Marlies and Ulli‘s house in Germany or maybe after we get home. The walking is hard sometimes, but it lets me know I can still do some things. But right now I’m thinking I won’t do another walk like this until after I get my left knee fixed, this time it’s been hurting a lot.
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TravelerI want to go! I am part Basque!
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Saint-Côme-d’Olt
May 21, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 61 °F
Traveler This looks like my yard in the spring, except not as green as our weather is now more like central California.
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Traveler One can tell this is France, whose people show & tell the joy of faith in their artwork.
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Traveler Where’s Tina?🤓
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Espalion
May 22, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 48 °F
We just walked through this town and stopped to have lunch, it was on the way from Saint-Côme-d’Olt to Estaing. As we were entering town, we walked by the most amazing area with so many beautiful scenes to take pictures of.Read more
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Estaing, France
May 22, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
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Estaing church and castle
May 22, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 57 °F
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Golinhac to Espeyrac
May 23, 2025 in France ⋅ ☀️ 59 °F
LIke it! I love it! [Mary]
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Arrival in Conques
May 24, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F
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6/19/25Reply
Oh my! [Nancy]
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This is all unbelievably beautiful!! Mary [Mary]
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You two are having such amazing adventures!! I love it! [Susan Starr]
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Trip end
May 25, 2025