• 7-night single person rate:
  £1230.00 Pounds Sterling or €1430.00 Euros
• 11-night single person rate:
  £1675.00 Pounds Sterling or €1940.00 Euros
• Extra nights on request

• Discover yourself and make friends along France’s Classic Pilgrimage trail.
• Cross three regions: Auverge, Languedoc-Roussilon and Midi-Pyrenees.
• Enjoy single and en suite rooms in a mix of excellent accommodations: Chambres d’Hotes, Gites du Charme and good hotels.
• Explore the cultural heritage of some of France’s most enchanting ancient regions.
• Experience the ‘UNESCO’ section from Nasbinals to St Chely and the Aubrac Plateau.

• 7 or 11-night versions to suit you – you average 12 miles-19 kms a day over a total of 134 miles/215 kms [full tour] or 82½ miles/133 kms [7-nighter], with options to shorten or lengthen stages to personalise the tour.
• moderate self-guided tour through the best of rural France.
• Start any day, beg. April to mid-October.
• Tour starts in Le Puy-en-Velay and finishes in either St Chely d’Aubrac or Conques.
• Best access: Lyon airport or SNCF, with onward train to Le Puy via St Etienne, with Claremont-Ferrand as the alternative.
• Carefully-selected and fine accommodation mix averaging ‘superior 2-star standard’ hotels and auberges.
• Optional return transfer to Aumont-Aubrac or Le Puy at tour’s end – please ask us for details.
• We transport your luggage, you just carry a light day pack.

• 7 or 11-nights accommodation, respectively, in single rooms and with en suite facilities
• 7 or 11 breakfasts
• 5 or 8 evening meals, respectively.
• Luggage transfers¹ and transport integral to the programme.
• Themed dossier, Hiking Insight Notes and 1: 50,000 maps. The Way is very well way marked and we consider this scale map as entirely adequate for this particular trail.
• 7/7 Emergency telephone help-line service with native-English speaking backup from 8 till 8.

Notes:
¹ You are entitled to take one piece of luggage weighing up to 13 kgs – i.e., no suitcase must exceed 13 kgs and supplements apply for extra or overweight luggage. We accept no responsibility for lost valuables. We advise you not to bring computers and business-related equipment. 
Note: we are able to arrange for your excess luggage to be securely stored for the duration of your tour and delivered to the final hotel before your departure. Please ask us for further details of this service if it is of interest to you.

Not included:
Remaining meals and all drinks and extras;
personal expenses;
1: 25,000 scale maps: nine of these would be required to cover the tour, which we are happy to supply at a supplement;
entrances into any optional cultural visits and venues;
hiking, personal and travel insurances;
travel to Le Puy and from St Chely or Conques.

• Nearest airport or SNCF station is Lyon [3 hrs on TGV from Paris or Lille] with onward train journey to Le Puy via St Etienne.
• Next-best access is via Eurostar to Paris and change for Clermont-Ferrand and then Le Puy. From Paris Bercy to Clermont-Ferrand in 3½ hours and from Clermont-Ferrand to Le Puy in 2 hours.
• By Car: leave your car in the central Le Puy car park – ask us for details.
• Alternative Nimes option is via cross-country train to Langogne and bus to Le Puy. This option takes a whole day’s travel from Nimes, arriving in Le Puy at approx. 17.30 – please ask for details.
• Departure:

• We can get you transferred back to Aumont-Aubrac, Le Puy-en-Velay or onto Figeac for easy onward travel. Please reserve at time of booking. Please ask us for details.
• Aumont-Aubrac lies on the regional railway line that runs north-south connecting Clermont-Ferrand to Beziers. Onward transport leaves here from around 11am and takes approx. 2 hours to go north to Clermont-Ferrand or 3½ south to Beziers.
Alternatively, you can travel east across by SNCF bus to Mende followed by onward train to La Bastide Puy Laurent and onto Nimes in approx. 5½ hours.
• Please check out the rail/bus options at RailEurope or Bahn.com.

• “Matching your needs to meticulously-selected accommodation, based on superior facilities, food, location, service and welcome.”
• The optimum mixture of both guesthouse and hotel accommodation, designed as a ‘best of’ mix that maximises the opportunity to meet other kindred spirits.
• Accommodation standard averages 2-star or higher, with en-suite facilities throughout.
• The human factor and the personal touch is thus writ large. Your hosts are accustomed to welcoming Anglophones into their homes although, as with anything in life, your extra effort will be handsomely rewarded and so practicing some French [however rudimentary] is highly recommended.
• Evening meals follow a fixed menu format for all half-board guests and do not include drinks. Most hotel menus provide a meat or fish dish, plus a vegetarian option; whilst chambres d’hotes and auberges tend to function around one common meal of which all guests partake, bar vegetarians, who would have an alternative dish. All showcase ‘produits du terroirs’ typical of the regions through which you walk.

• Warm summers; mild and sunny spring & autumn
• Enjoy sub-alpine flora and volcanic plateau to schist valley topography.
• Cross three regions: Auverge, Languedoc-Roussilon and Midi-Pyrenees.