Monthly Archives: July 2019

We left Pessac this morning after a decent breakfast and a good night’s sleep. Refreshed, we hit the road and quickly hurtled along France’s very, very flat motorways (south of Bordeaux) to Bayonne before turning left onto busier but much … Continue reading →

I’ve just screwed up 😟. We’ve stopped in a very pleasant Ibis hotel in Pessac, a couple of kilometres south of Bordeaux and over a shared pizza I searched for and booked tomorrow night’s hotel, an albergue in St. Jean … Continue reading →

En route to Calais. Supposedly I have WiFi, courtesy of a £2 scratch card but this last out of focus, shot through the window image is taking an inordinate time to upload. We’re pootling off to the continent, got to … Continue reading →

We’re finishing off our abortive Camino in a Bilbao restaurant. Both of us are pretty disappointed that things didn’t go to plan. I suspect that if we’d stayed on the Norte we’d be still quietly making our way across northern … Continue reading →

It’s hot 🥵, very, very hot. 32 degrees worth of hotness outside according to Siri. We’re in a decent albergue, private room etc for €40 but there’s no air conditioning and the temperature isn’t scheduled to drop below 30 until … Continue reading →

Dorothy is home. 😊 We’ve arrived in Logroño, the capital of the Rioja region and the source of much innocent pleasure. It’s a mere 23+ km from Torres Del Rio so we delayed our departure until after the local café … Continue reading →

We’re in the lovely albergue with the swimming pool that we stayed in 3 years ago. Dorothy was really looking forward to using her swimming costume, brought specifically for this one occasion. She stepped into the water, bottled it and … Continue reading →

We’ve stopped in a highly recommended albergue next to the river in Estella called Albergue de Curtidores. This is the view out of the lounge in the basement. We’d not managed to reserve a private room but the three of … Continue reading →

Another relatively gentle day today. Some 18.8 km covered, a small mountain ascended (and descended), lots of flowers, snails, slugs, ants and groves of almond, olive trees and vines at the beginning of the Rioja region. We’ll start with our … Continue reading →

We’re now ensconced in a lovely, friendly albergue a few km outside of Pamplona. We stayed here in 2016 when they had tortoises wandering around the well stocked garden. But, no tortoises 😩. Apparently they all died some time ago. … Continue reading →