Le Puy en Velay Day 0 (again)

This town is the start of the French Camino which joins the well known Spanish route to Santiago de Compostella and the tomb of Saint James. Over 22 days we will walk about 500kms of this route finishing in Cahors in rural southern France. We walked up to the Cathedral to collect our "passport", which we get stamped after walking each stage.

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