Monthly Archives: August 2019

We’re en route, heading for Limoges to pick up Raphaël before picking up an early evening sailing from Calais on Thursday. There were no buses back to Pamplona so a chap in a large taxi picked us up at 8:30 … Continue reading →

We’re back in Roncevalles after a hard, hard day clambering over the Pyrenees, or at least one small part. We started early My recollections of the initial 8km up to the refuge at Orisson were of an unremitting steep, steep … Continue reading →

Let’s start with last night’s albergue failure. From the outside the new part looks like this. But block D is probably an old cow shed and internally looks like this. With a close up of Dorothy’s sleeping corner. Can anyone … Continue reading →

What a day. What a night. Let’s start with the night. Dinner outside at the hotel was great, a salad with decent bread and a glass of wine. We’d been hearing stork noises all evening, a low thrumming noise so … Continue reading →