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2017 E5 walk
This is a journal of my walk along the E5 trail in 2017. The simplest way to read it is to start at the prologue, and continue from there via the links at the end of each page.
I’ve divided the walk into sections, purely arbitrarily. Neither the E5 nor its French GR components have any such divisions; they are here purely for my and your convenience, to help understand how the landscape changed as I walked. Many of these sections could have shifted a day or two either direction and still been useful divisions.
This journal updated daily, around 10 PM CEST (1 PM PDT), until the last entry (the epilogue) posted on June 6.
In addition to the photos that are part of each day’s post, I also shared basically the complete set of pictures I took. They are minimally labelled; looking through them is the equivalent of looking over my shoulder as I flip through a box of photos and mutter something about each one.
- Prologue
- Gear
- Phone
- Day 0: Audierne to Plogoff
- Section 1: Pointe du Raz to Douarnenez (3 days)
- Day 1: Pointe du Raz to Trouérennec
- Day 2: Trouérennec to Pors Peron
- Day 3: Pors Peron to Douarnenez
- Section 2: Douarnenez to le Faou (4 days)
- Day 4: Douarnenez to Lestrevet
- Day 5: Lestrevet to Sainte-Marie-du-Ménez-Hom
- Day 6: Sainte-Marie-du-Ménez-Hom to Kervézennec
- Day 7: Kervézennec to le Faou
- Section 3: Le Faou to Huelgoat (4 days)
- Day 8: Le Faou to Skiriou
- Day 9: Skiriou to Saint-Rivoal
- Day 10: Saint-Rivoal to Coat Mocun
- Day 11: Coat Mocun to Huelgoat
- Section 4: Huelgoat to Mûr-de-Bretagne (6 days)
- Day 12: Huelgoat to Kroas ar Breton
- Day 13: Kroas ar Breton to Carhaix-Plouguer
- Day 14: Carhaix-Plouguer to Glomel
- Day 15: Glomel to Gouarec
- Day 16: Gouarec to Beau Rivage
- Day 17: Beau Rivage to Mûr-de-Bretagne
- Section 5: Mûr-de-Bretagne to Josselin (4 days)
- Day 18: Mûr-de-Bretagne to Saint-Caradec
- Day 19: Saint-Caradec to Gueltas
- Day 20: Gueltas to Chapelle Saint-Maudan
- Day 21: Chapelle Saint-Maudan to Josselin
- Section 6: Josselin to Trémelin (4 days)
- Day 22: Josselin to le Vieux Bourg
- Day 23: Le Vieux Bourg to la Ville ès Mélais
- Day 24: La Ville ès Mélais to Beignon
- Day 25: Beignon to Trémelin
- Section 7: Trémelin to Saint-Malo (6 days)
- Day 26: Trémelin to Montauban-de-Bretagne
- Day 27: Montauban-de-Bretagne to la Gilais
- Day 28: La Gilais to Dinan
- Day 29: Dinan (zero-day)
- Day 30: Dinan to le Minihic-sur-Rance
- Day 31: Le Minihic-sur-Rance to Saint-Malo
- Section 8: Saint-Malo to Mont-Saint-Michel (4 days)
- Day 32: Saint-Malo to Pointe du Grouin
- Day 33: Pointe du Grouin to Mont-Dol
- Day 34: Mont-Dol to Roz-sur-Couesnon
- Day 35: Roz-sur-Couesnon to Mont-Saint-Michel
- Day 35: side-trip to Mont-Saint-Michel
- Section 9: Mont-Saint-Michel to le Neufbourg (4 days)
- Day 36: Mont-Saint-Michel to Avranches
- Day 37: Avranches to l’Anglaicherie
- Day 38: L’Anglaicherie to la Filtière
- Day 39: La Filtière to le Neufbourg
- Section 10: Le Neufbourg to Alençon (6 days)
- Day 40: Le Neufbourg to le Gué Safray
- Day 41: Le Gué Safray to Domfront
- Day 42: Domfront to Bagnoles-de-l’Orne
- Day 43: Bagnoles-de-l’Orne to Carrouges
- Day 44: Carrouges to Alençon
- Day 45: side-trip to Paris (zero-day)
- Section 11: Alençon to Verneuil-sur-Avre (6 days)
- Day 46: Alençon to Aillières-Beauvoir
- Day 47: Aillières-Beauvoir to la Bruyère
- Day 48: La Bruyère to la Chapelle-Montligeon
- Day 49: La Chapelle-Montligeon to Saint-Maurice-lès-Charencey
- Day 50: Saint-Maurice-lès-Charencey to Verneuil-sur-Avre
- Day 51: Verneuil-sur-Avre (zero-day)
- Section 12: Verneuil-sur-Avre to Boncourt (3 days)
- Section 13: Boncourt to Paris (5 days)
- Day 55: Boncourt to Tacoignières
- Day 56: Tacoignières to Perdreauville
- Day 57: Perdreauville to Neauphle-le-Château
- Day 58: Neauphle-le-Château to Viroflay
- Day 59: Viroflay to Paris
- Epilogue