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Many reasons : - With family, - With friends, - In a young people action, - To go into walking retreat, - With disabled, - For accompanying prisoners, juvenile delinquents, drug addict. In Belgium they do that. - You must be sure that in the place you expect to stop for a night, the gite will be able to receive you ; and...

Of course if you are short of time you can walk for only a part of the way. It is what we can see, more and more, but mainly by french pilgrims. Coming from other side of earth, it's not for a week. Some advices : - Any way, if you do it like so, remember that it will take you from 8 to 10 days to get a pilgrim mind and...

In the true Compostelle tradition : - By feet, from home, all in once.Others motorless means were, or are, used, Sailing ship, in Middle Ages, it was used from Great Britain to Galice coasts, in Spain. By horse, Now, by mountain bike, With donkey

By feet or by bicycle, diner, bed and breakfast : - Only for bed : around 8 €uros, and you handle your meals. - Bed, diner and breakfast, with 15 € you won't be hungry. Don't forget the fare back home or to you car.

In this first phase of construction of our site, we have only worked on the path from Le Puy en Velay to Roncesvalles called “ Via Podiensis”, so, in this page we will only give some ideas for a pilgrim gait. - Choose your stopovers in relation with the kind of meeting you want to do or you have choosed. - The place and the...

- A high-energy cereal bar ( in case of hypoglycaemia) - Some sterile dressings; - Adhesive dressings, e.g. Elastoplast ® - Blister dressings, e.g. Second skin ® or Compeed ®. - Antiseptic liquid or cream (e.g. lodine, if you're not allergic to it , Betadine ® or Savlon ®. - A pain killer, e.g. Paracetamol...

Rucksack (50 liters should be enough for a normal bag), with rain protection included if you don't use a poncho. - A light sleeping-bag should be enough in France. - In Spain it's better to have a normal one. - Moss matress ( I never need one), but if you like. - Sport wear, may be if it can be used as pyjama. ...

- Not too heavy, the way is not a desert ! - Not too light.- For a man the bag should not be more than 13 kg. For a lady, not more than 11 kg. And if you walk in group you can divide common équipment ( guidebook, medecine, sewing necessary, etc...) - In winter it will be slightly heavier ( warmer clothes,...