camino forum snips pertaining to skipping stages

DON’T skip:

  1. The climb out of Castrojeriz
  2. The climb up O’Cebrerio
  3. The climb up to and down from Cruz de Ferro
  4. The last 110km from Sarria to Santiago
  5. The climb up the steps into the Cathedral

 

Please don’t skip Burgos or Leon.

 At least sample the Meseta. It is a deceptively beautiful and intriguing region.

My advice would be to play it by ear – skip ahead when you need to. Aches and pains, bad weather, tummy upsets – reasons will occur.

 skip 19

bus mansilla to leon

 

‘la douleur est inevitable, la souffrance estoptionelle‘. I think a bit of pain makes it into a pilgrimage

 

God whispers to us in our pleasures…. and shouts at us in our pain (CS Lewis)

 “El fin del mundo” (the end of the world)

 Just start in Pamplona and walk without skipping. You skip the meseta, you skip the real heart of the camino.

There is probably a stretch that I could recommend skipping. After staying at the Parroquial Albergue at Tosantos and seeing the church hewed out of a cliff face , take a bus or taxi to Burgos. This will save 2 to 3 days.

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