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Dr. Jeremiah Gibbs 
Hello Dr. Gibbs,
I follow your Camino journeys on youtube and hoping me and my wife could do it next year. Although we wanted the Camino Frances, we only have 3 weeks vacation time from work including travel so is it OK to start with the first 5 days of walking thru Camino Frances, then take bus/trains along the way to Sarria where we can walk another 5 days all the way to Compostela? Then maybe also walk to Finisterre if we still have time left?
If we do that, do we get a pilgrim passport from Camino Frances or Sarria?
Great question. You will always be welcome to do the pilgrimage any way you’d like. I assume by “first five days” you mean something like walking from St Jean to Pamplona then taking train to Sarria? You can definitely do that and that is a beautiful section to work. The only caveat is that you’ll spend a full day on trains getting to St Jean. Then it will be at least a day to get from Pamplona to Sarria. I’ve not done that so I don’t know the connections. But if you don’t mind riding a bit then this is a good plan.
As for the Compostela? The only rule is that you must walk the last 100k and document with stamps. So yes…if you walk from Sarria you would earn a Compostela. It won’t say anything about where you’ve been, etc. So you will have your stamps to show these other segments you have walked.
I’m sorry. That’s not right. Pamplona is only 3-4 days from St Jean. You may make it Puente La Reina or Estella for a bus.
Thank you for the reply. Yes, we’d like to walk St Jean to Pamplona or wherever the first 5 days will get us and then spend the next 3 days maybe traveling by bus or train ro Sarria where we’ll walk all the way to Compostela.
We’re from Canada by the way.