Camino Francés with Thom & Luke – Sep 2023
12
Sep
Automobiles , Planes , Bus and a V.small Mountain train
4.00 am up – 6.00pm arrival but the journey is so varied it flys by.Liverpool , Dublin , Biarritz, Bayonne Gar...
13
Sep
SJPdP The best little town no one’s heard of
The overcrowded , excitable backpack filled train finally rolled into St Jean pied de Port. The official start...
14
Sep
Cross day / Cross Country blogging
The way this trek is going – we arrive mid afternoon at our Albergue – I have an hour to catch up with this jo...
15
Sep
Roncesvalles to Larrasoana
The Monastery looked after us well – an exuberant atmosphere from all who’d hiked the pass and into the deep v...
17
Sep
Pamplona Saturday – life in a day.
Late-ish on Saturday night . Back at the Alb’’ Plaza Catedral situated on Catedral square – (BTW no ‘h’ for Ca...
18
Sep
Puente la Reina & Farewell to the Irish
Leaving the early Sunday quiet streets of Pamplona through wide green spaces and out through the hill village ...
20
Sep
Town & Country burnt ochre .
Puente la Reine – had more life than expected. We were happy to head through the cool early streets –
T...
20
Sep
Old Mill to Palace
The old mill at Estella to the 1703 Palacio at SansolEstella got a bad press from me last time as did Los Arco...
21
Sep
What’s that coming over the hill 🎶 Is it a Wine Festival ?
We’ll bless my scheduling skills – it sure is.Sansol to Logronõ via the lovely Viana Super helpful Dutch Hospi...
23
Sep
San Saturnino – Ventosa from Logronõ at Dawn
The resilience of fiesta prone Spain is due in no small part to the early clean up Crews . Th...
23
Sep
Tail of 2 Hamlets – Ventosa to Azofra
The Alberque with the strict curfew has an equally strict check out time. So by 8.00am we are packe...
27
Sep
Santa Domingo to Belorado
Sunday 24th Sept 2023Where : The trail since 883AD for penitents , supplicants and occasionally the...
27
Sep
Sabado Noché – Domingo Mañana
We 3 appear to have developed a symbiotic trail relationship that suits all.6.00am alarms hardly ev...
28
Sep
Belorado to Olmos de Atapuerca
Atapuerca – we would all have heard this name in the early ‘90’s through to early ‘00’s . A place o...
28
Sep
Cutting the trail on the Atapuerca Massive .
We start at dawn and have a good plan to reach Burgos by Lunchtime . I changed the hotel booking la...
01
Oct
BurgoMeisters
The first daylight start to the day for 2 weeks. Thom the planner is keen to visit the enormous Hum...
01
Oct
Finale – Burgos to Bilbao
Even though we are here for a full day until our journey home starts. We need to be out of the apar...