Originally Posted by jameslent
Thanks for the advice and the encouragement! This will be our first bicycle tour; was their any equipment that you found particularly useful while on the Camino? Any recommendations for cycling-specific preperation or guidebooks?
Lots of water and sunscreen, though if you are going in Sept/Oct this may not be as important.
The guidebooks:
BRAVO LOZANO, Millan. A practical guide for pilgrims: the road to Santiago.
- León: Editorial Everest SA, - 261 pp. with maps in a separate
waterproof pocket. [Regarded as the best of the heavyweight (literally) guide
for walkers]
BRIERLEY, John. A pilgrims guide to the Camino Frances - Findhorn Press 2003
- covering St Jean Pied de Port to Santiago de Compostela - [A recent and well
written compact guide with maps, photos and information.]
ANGUITA JAEN, Jose Maria. Pilgrim's guide, the road to Santiago - Leon:
Editorial Everest SA, 2004 - 360 pp. with maps in a separate waterproof
pocket includes Finisterre and Padron. [Sometimes issued free by Spanish
Tourist Offices]
HIGGINSON, John. The way of St James – A Cyclists Guide.
- Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press, 1999. - covering le Puy to the Pyrenees to
Santiago and Finisterre. [A compact guide]
CONFRATERNITY OF ST JAMES. Pilgrim Guides
Camino Frances
Via de la Plata (2)
Finisterre
Los Caminos del Norte (4)
Camino Portuges
Camino Ingles
Cycling Pilgrim
Compact, authoritative, and frequently updated (annually on main routes) guides.
Write to or e-mail the Spanish Tourist Office in your country asking for information about the camino and you may be sent the Anguita Jaen guide free.
The CSJ guide to the Camino Frances is revised every year and is great for information on accommodation etc but has no maps/history etc. It is the one I would not leave home without however. You can get it and some of the others from
www.csj.org.uk