St Jean Pied de Port
We had a good days walking today - left about 9am and arrived at about 4.30pm. Everything has changed. The camino is an industry here! We went straight to the Accueil Pellerins and were allocated 2 bunks in a dormitory of 8. The others - an Italian couple, a Spanish girl and an Irish father and son are our room mates so far. They have all just arrived and will set off for Roncevalles tomorrow - a long mountainous and sometimes dangerous route. The Spanish girl who lives in the Findhorn Community in Scotland has got the most enormous sac as has the Italian fella. We have told them (us old hands!) that they won't manage and need to offload. I do feel really pleased that we have had this practice run to sort ourselves out.
The language spoken is now English - the more common tongue.
We are going to explore St Jeans for the evening. The refuge has no Kitchen faclities so we need to find some food!!
A demain ....
St Jean Pied de Port
Congratulations..... I hope you enjoy a wonderful sense of achievement! Am not surprised you find things in SJPP so surprising: it was enough of a shock to the system- even though I loved it- coming from the Le Puy route. But when you have known the 'isolation' of the Vezelay route, it must be mindblowing!
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Just found your blog - sounds wonderful...will keep an eye on what youre up to...you will be soon be walking into a part of the country which i will recognise having driven across the north with jeremy in 1985. I wrote an article on the undiscovered north which actually got published in a london mag! Be interesting to see if its changed that much. love Lesleyx
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