Category Archives: Daily trek

Good flight, decent dinner at what must be one of the few remaining Jamie’s restaurants after a relatively easy bus journey. Many thanks to Menna for firstly walking over to us to pick up excess packaging and later, driving into … Continue reading →

We’re heading back to Bilbao on Saturday, staying overnight at a hotel at the airport and then catching an early afternoon train back to Logrono. Having walked from Pamplona in July and then climbed over the Napoleon route in August, … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →