Holiday plans
Jul. 20th, 2010 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThis year's holiday plans are firming up nicely - as they should be, since we set off tomorrow week. Meanwhile, I continue to find things in the Guardian travel supplement - in among all the 'wild horses wouldn't drag me...' suggestions - which seem worth noting for future reference.
Last Saturday brought a new suggestion for a trip which we have actually contemplated: the Spanish section of the Camino de Santiago, by train: we've walked - give or take, over a period of time - the route through France from Le Puy to the Pyrenees (and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler has completed the last leg from the pass down into Roncesvalles. And I'd love to see some of the locations along the Spanish, route, not to mention Santiago itself. But the more I read about the route through Spain, the less inviting it sounds: packed with walkers whose motives are either heavily spiritual or hard core athletic, and for much of the way either seriously challenging walking or too close for comfort to major roads. But narrow guage railway could be a fun way to travel (the railway's web site is in Spanish, and worse, it's heavy on the animations; Explore - or possibly, Explore! offer a package).
An earlier article about destinations near ferry ports recommends the Wadden Sea - with islands! - (via Esbjerg). This was new to me, but the description sounds good: Denmark, seaside, islands. Poking a bit further around the internet identifies the Wadden Sea as that coast of Denmark that faces the Channel, and the islands as the Frisian islands, which sounds more familiar. Still looks good, though not necessarily better than a seaside holiday in Britain...
Last Saturday brought a new suggestion for a trip which we have actually contemplated: the Spanish section of the Camino de Santiago, by train: we've walked - give or take, over a period of time - the route through France from Le Puy to the Pyrenees (and
durham_rambler has completed the last leg from the pass down into Roncesvalles. And I'd love to see some of the locations along the Spanish, route, not to mention Santiago itself. But the more I read about the route through Spain, the less inviting it sounds: packed with walkers whose motives are either heavily spiritual or hard core athletic, and for much of the way either seriously challenging walking or too close for comfort to major roads. But narrow guage railway could be a fun way to travel (the railway's web site is in Spanish, and worse, it's heavy on the animations; Explore - or possibly, Explore! offer a package).An earlier article about destinations near ferry ports recommends the Wadden Sea - with islands! - (via Esbjerg). This was new to me, but the description sounds good: Denmark, seaside, islands. Poking a bit further around the internet identifies the Wadden Sea as that coast of Denmark that faces the Channel, and the islands as the Frisian islands, which sounds more familiar. Still looks good, though not necessarily better than a seaside holiday in Britain...
