Le Puy Camino: Le Puy-en-Velay to Saint-Alban | Part 1 (Via Podiensis)
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- Follow along as we walk over 1500 km on our longest Camino yet - the Via Podiensis - from Le Puy-en-Velay, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
We started the Via Podiensis (Le Puy Camino) on August 7, 2023, spending 28 days walking in France, arriving at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on September 3rd. From there, we continued on the Camino Frances, arriving in Santiago on September 29th.
This is our first time walking the Via Podiensis and our second time on the Camino Frances. We have hiked several other Camino routes in Spain including the Camino Primitivo (May 2023), Camino de Invierno (March 2023), the Camino del Norte (July 2019), and the Camino Frances (September 2017). We packed ultralight bags for all of our journeys.
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Filmed on August 6-9, 2023.
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In three weeks I'll be in Le Puy. This video has me panting with excitement. Lainey's adorable, by the way ...
Wow! Bon Chemin!
i think you are the most cheerful camino walkers i have ever seen. good luck on your new adventure.
Thanks so much! 😍
So looking forward to this adventure Shawn, Lainey. Thanks for taking the time to film.
Thanks so much! ❤️
You've inspired me! I was going to start again in st jean du pied but now I'm seriously considering starting in du puy!
Le puy i mean! 😂
That's amazing! We're so honored we could inspire you. The Chemin from Le Puy to SJPP is incredible.
Your capture is stunning. My sister and I who are in our 60s, walked this route August 2022. We stayed at the same place in Le Puy, I loved it there. The first two weeks of the walk are to beautiful. We could only walk less then 20 km per day. Keep inspiring.
Thank you so much.
Beau-ti-ful and the quality of the videos ⭐
Thank you so much! ❤️
Awesome quality! What are you filming with?
Thanks so much. We film with our iPhones in 4K, 24 fps
Great Video! Looks like it's going to be a great hike just from the first bit.
Thanks so much. It was a beautiful hike!
I will be going on this beautiful Chemin in April 24 however I am a coffee fanatic and worried about lack of daily caffeine🤣 , I am so obsessed with this part of France because it is so beautiful. Bien Chemin guys ❤
Oh how nice! There's plenty of coffee stops on trail (at least most days there are). Bon Chemin!
Well done, after completing the Camino, we will eventually be returning to do this Pilgrimage ❤🙏🏽😘
Thank you! You'll love the Chemin du Puy!
So fantastic. Can’t wait for the next instalment. Walking this route Aug next year. So exciting watching your video. GreT work
Thanks so much! Bon Chemin!
So crazy to watch these knowing we randomly met along the way! Beautiful video, gorgeous scenery, fun attitude. Also, it's very informative! You two are amazing! Congrats on another Camino completed! 👏
For sure!!!! It was incredible to meet you two in Condom. Can’t believe that actually happened!!!?! Thanks for the kind words. ❤️
Nice video! I enjoyed the landscape and your sunny disposition. However, I would have liked more useful information for future hikers.
Noted. :) Thanks for watching.
So much love! I hade the best time with you guys, and watching this I feel like I need to do it again! 😊
Yes!!! Let’s all do it again together!!!!!
Tireless i love it
Thank you! We loved walking in France.
Oh wow! I’ll be following it closely. I want to do it next year. 🥃
Thanks so much! You’ll have a wonderful time. We loved it.
great video(s)! having walked two Camino Frances, this is giving me ideas… 😅
Thanks so much! Go for it! It's unique and beautiful.
This looks like a great Camino! You'll pick up the French quickly I bet!
It was amazing! My French pronunciation got better, but Shawn did most of the communication since he actually knows a little French.
I didn't think it would be possible, but Lainey seems to have even more energy than Renee off the Renee and Tim thru-hikers channel. If you could bottle that, you'd make a fortune.
Aww, thanks so much!!! ❤️
I plan on doing the same route in April.
Did you change your SIM card when you got there? I use Verizon.
We live in Europe, so we have a European sim through Lobster. In the past, we've had the T-Mobile international plan.
Thanks for the vid. I did the Portuguese camino this year and looking for another challenge next year. How did you book the accommodation and was the signposting ok ? Thanks again.
Thanks for watching! The signposting is very easy to follow. We booked the first 9 nights of accommodation via email (1 month in advance since it was crowded August). Then, we booked by phone 1-4 days ahead of time while we were on trail. We used the Cicerone guidebook, Miam Miam Dodo guidebook, Google maps, and Gronze to find the accommodations.
Great job at capturing the Gr65!
Hiked it last year in October and it's nice to see it in a different season. It was pretty quiet in autumn.
As a French person, I was wondering if you struggled with the communication with other pilgrims since it's way less international than the Francés?
Thank you so much. We definitely struggled to meet other pilgrims. We made a few friends further on the trail but many were only walking for 5-10 days. It was nice to have our friends with us since we could talk to each other at dinner if it got too awkward (which sometimes it did). Overall, almost everyone was super nice about our lack of French since we were trying our best.
@@DaysWeSpend Ah, good to know.
Yes, there's definitely a different vibe, considering many hikers are section-hiking, especially from Le Puy to Conques, (more than on the Spanish side I think), it can be frustrating when you meet great people that you know you won't see again on trail.
I bumped into a few (maybe 5) foreign pilgrims on the Via Podiensis, and they told me it wasn't that difficult to communicate, but I had a hard time believing them 😆
I'm actually wondering how much I should recommend this trail to foreign friends.
On one hand it's not nearly as easy to have a social experience as it is on the Spanish side for people who can't speak French, on the other hand it's definitely a wonderful way to experience France (even for a French person) and discover beautiful villages.
Anyway, glad it worked out for you!
We definitely recommend it, with some caveats. It's definitely not the Camino Frances but it's a wonderful way to experience small village French culture. Without speaking French, it helped to make some of our reservations ahead of time via email. Then, we had French speakers and gîte owners help us make some phone calls until Shawn and Hans gained confidence on the phone.
A different time of year (not August) would probably be better to meet people too. August is full of families and groups that didn't always want to chat with us.
@@DaysWeSpend Thanks for the answer!
Looking forward to watch the other videos.
Thanks for mentioning the daily distance! Do you generally walk about 5km an hour (not hills)? Also Lainy has a hood instead of a hat. Do you find that is better/cooler?
Thanks for watching! Not counting breaks, we walk about 5 km an hour. If the terrain is tougher (rocks, mud, steep) more like 3.5 km an hour.
As for the hood, I decided to try something new since I didn't want to wear sunscreen on my ears. I like baseball cap style hats so that I can also wear them in the rain. The hood was pretty cool if the sun beat down on me, but NOT cool if the breeze was coming sideways. I found myself putting the hood down in the shaded sections. All things said, I LOVED having the hood and the sun protection.
@@DaysWeSpend Thanks for your response! Loving your vids, info and goofiness! I walked 5 days of the Camino Portuguese with my son a couple of years back and caught the camino bug! I have booked flights for a two week walk in June 2024. Thinking the Primitivo. I'm from Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺 Thanks so much for the content. I love seeing people live their best life!
@@user-zx5vr8xr9q thanks so much! The Primitivo is incredible! That’s a good choice to experience some mountain beauty.
How does the first day's climb compare to the first day's climb on Frances?
The first day out of Le Puy is a piece of cake compared to SJPP to Roncesvalles. Out of Le Puy, the climb isn’t very steep but it’s pretty steady most of the day.
Any issues with biting insects requiring repellent?
Yes. Lots of mosquitos. Bring bug spray!
Moi même sourd profond, je suis intéressé par le logo de l'oreille barrée sur le sac à dos qu'on aperçoit au tout début de la vidéo. Un lien ? I'm profoundly deaf myself, and I'm interested in the crossed ear logo on the backpack that we see at the very beginning of the video.
I made it myself since I'm hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. I can't hear anything behind me and sometimes I even hike without my hearing aids (if it's too sweaty). I think it was very useful since I had fewer mean looks on trail when I couldn't hear people trying to pass me.
I Googled "international sign for hearing impaired" and downloaded an image. Printed it and had it laminated.
-Lainey
@@DaysWeSpend Merci de votre réponse. Et je profite de celle ci pour vous remercier de votre bonne humeur tellement communicative dans vos vidéos. Thank you for your reply. And I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your good humor which is so communicative in your videos.
@@fredericboso5484 Thank you
I wonder if you really need the poles? Seems like you're just carrying them, not really getting any extra power from them. But you've done a ton of walks, so I guess you think they're worth it. I use them on steep trails, but tend to stow them for flat walking.
We love our poles for flat sections. We get into a nice rhythm with them. We don't film ourselves using them that way since we're moving too quickly. lol
We both use them a lot on downhills for our knees.
Poles are a totally personal choice. For us, they definitely make a big difference in the amount of repetitive strain on our legs.
They look like patients escaped from a madhouse....
Hahaha yeah we do!
You guys are fucking crazy to go again lol. Good luck with the plastic bags and unsolicited medical advice about blisters … half joking. Enjoy those cheap coffees and cheap cheese x
Hahahahaha. Sometimes we question ourselves when we’ve had a bad sleep. But really, it was incredible.