Saint-James way, where to start?

Over the years, the experience coming by walking, I gradually lengthened the distances covered until I reached my maximum physical tolerance threshold. For me, it will be the bar of 42 km on foot to never exceed. Everyone has their limits, it is important to know yours before embarking on too long journeys alone, especially with a heavy load of 12 to 15 kg on your back.  

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Some will prefer to be assisted by a system of shuttles depositing their luggage from lodging to lodging, when this service exists locally. Other hikers, like me, will choose to sleep under the stars in the middle of nature to walk freely over the encounters. 

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The bivouac is above all a process, a way to feel even more free and independent at any time of the day. To bivouac is to learn to live with uncertainty, because generally not everything goes as planned. It's also a way to listen to your body and adjust your efforts if necessary.

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It is in this wandering state of mind that I find myself today: if I am tired, I decide to stop. If I'm hungry, I eat. I'm sleepy, I'm sleeping. There are no longer hours to be scrupulously respected. I walk therefore I am... happiness has become as simple as that.

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The fact of alternating nights in camping, in a stopover lodge or in a bivouac allows me to embark at a lower cost on hikes of at least ten days, in the most remote places that I had thought until then. inaccessible.

In the following pages, I share with you my adventures on foot to make you want to leave.

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You can  discover my routes seen from the sky, with the description of the stages, photos and GPS tracks: from mon way of Saint-Guilhem, from my Stevenson path on the GR 70 trail , of my crossing of the Eastern Pyrenees by the GR 10, of my tour of Belle île en mer on the GR 340, of my many stages on the ways to Compostela, otherwise by the detours and the mountain and much more... 

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My videos will help you, I hope, to take the first step.

buen camino :-)

Lionel de Compostelle

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