Now that I have decided to walk to Santiago from Paris, the internet tells me that it would take me more than two months to do the whole thing. Sigh. I don't really want to be walking in November. So I won't. I'll cut out some time, somehow. I might not start in Paris after all. Rumor has it that the first week or so out of Paris is depressingly suburban anyway. I might start in Orleans. Or maybe Le Puy. They were both popular medieval starting points for pilgrimages.
Let's see... If my return flight gets scheduled for sometime in the last week of October, and I definitely want to walk the whole of the Camino Frances (the pilgrim path in Spain, takes supposedly ~32 days of walking), I need to get over the border of France by the end of September, leaving me 20-25 days to get there from Paris. So. There may be a train ride in there somewhere...
Le Puy to St. Jean-Pied-de-Port is ca. 645 km, and at 25 km/day, that is about 26 days.
Chartres to St. Jean-Pied-de-Port is ca. 687 km or 27.5 days.
Orleans to St. Jean-Pied-de-Port is ca. 700 km, or 28 days.
Vezelay to St. Jean-Piel-de-Port is ca. 721 km, or 29 days.
Paris to St. Jean-Pied-de-Port is ca. 791 km, or 32 days.
Hm. If that is the only difference, less than 10 days, then maybe I'll just start in Paris.... I have to see when my plane ticket is for. Maybe I'll start in Paris proper and take a train to Orleans to avoid suburbia.
Also, duly noted, the French word for pilgrim is pelerin!
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