My friend has finally arrived and we just tourist (very good at that, a Real master ). As the weather is cold nothing better than visiting museums. So nothing much to tell. I really enjoyed the guggenheim very much inside and outside. The giant spider...

20 km cold, raining a bit, windy and terribly boring landscape. It took 4 hours to reach. Flat as a pancake. The famous guggenheim early in the morning leaving Bilbao I left Bilbao behind me for today (I am going back tomorrow to meet my friend). The...

15 km rain cold a Real pain. And took the wrong road AGAIN (we were 4 people not paying attention). 4 km by buss. Departure for Bilbao in the rain. We are 4 women, Viviane from New-Zealand, Harriet from England, Harriem from the Nederland and I. And we...

16,2 km. Rainy. 15 degrees. 4 hours to get here. Well, it had to happen!!! Rain! Not really fun, very slippery ups and downs (because it is still quite tough. I talked to some people today and we all admitted that we had been naive about how hard the...

27 km (exaushting km why are the Spanish km much longer than the Swedish km?) Up and down again. Not as hard as yesterday but hard. The last 8 km never ended. Beautiful weather 25 degrees. Warm to walk up and down. It took 8 hours to reach destination...

Enormous stones in a church/ énormes rochers dans une église VERSION ENGLISH 23,3 +2 (detour some problem, they did apologize for the extra bit) beautiful weather 23 degrees ( felt lime much more going up). Very much up and down (supposed to be one of...

DAY 13 resting day. Beautiful weather 23 degrees. Due a bad knee and the fact that I have extra days to take myself to Bilbao, i decided to take a day off. Lekeitio is a small very cute and very touristy town. Not the same kind as the Compostella road...

13,1 km blue sky but quite cold 16 degrees 3 hours 30 minutes to reach Yesterday I stayed at that convent for nuns as I told yesterday. 400 years of history, etc, etc... I tell you what the nuns can't have lived very long. The place was freezing cold....

A L ' ATTENTION DES LECTEURS FRANCOPHONES. Vous avez certainement l'impression que tout est en anglais sur ce blog. Malheureusement J' ai un peu du mal à suivre. Donc la version en français, qui je le re6n'a peut-être rien à voir avec la version en anglais...

SAN SEBASTIAN / ZARAUTZ little over 20 km (18 according to the book) beautiful weather the all day, blue sky but quite cold. 16 degrees. It took 6 hours to walk the all way. Much up and down (the down went very slowly. And I have some pain in one knee)...

26,5 km cloudy in the morning, beautiful in the afternoon variating temperature 17-25. 7 hours walk. Very much up and down. Category 5 in difficulté according to the guide book (did not feel that bad at all) Leaving HONDARRIBIA without problem (for once!)....

29 km. (The usual wrong turns but I am use to it by now). Cloudy in the morning, beautiful weather in the afternoon. 25 degrees. 7 hours walk. Today was a big day. I left the camping early. 2 wrong turns but knowing that there is a meaning in everything...

Bayonne-to Biarritz (by buss) Biarritz (a bit of tourism) to saint-jean-de-luz 13,5 km cloudy in the morning, sunny in the afternoon. 15 degrees. It took four hours to get there. (Hard walk in sand and rocks) To move directly to the Camino Norte was a...

MAULEON/BAYONNE One and half hour by buss cloudy followed by rain . 2 hours walk in town to visit the main attractions. 16 degrees only today The Camino is calling and telling the individual what to do. Well, this morning, I heard a clear voice telling...

14 km + 4 km= 18 km cloudy 4 hours and half to reach A short section. It was absolutely Impossible to go wrong, the hostel keeper said. GUESS WHAT HAPPENED? It is getting ridiculous as my friend Marie-Noelle said it is good that she will join me soon,...

23, 8 km + 4 km = 27,8 km beautiful weather warm up 28 degrees. Walking time 6 and half hours. Not much to see in Hôpital Saint Blaise. A small Church and a small village 75 inhabitants and it is a commune. I was alone at set Pilgrim Center somebody came...

22,8km on paper. 27,5 from the GPS. Beautiful weather 25 degrees It took 7 hours walking time to get there A particularly beautiful section. I got it wrong again in the beginning and ended up on some VVT trail. But as I thought bicykels must end up somewhere....

Compostelle signs along the way/les panneaux deviennent plus nombreux ASSON/ARUDY Quite a tough day. Up and down all the time but beautiful sceneries. The only annoying factor is the high number of dogs. The working dogs are OK. They are actually supposed...

ENGLISH version Lourdes-Asson Distance 23,5 km +2 to buy food (no shop in the village) + 5 ( getting lost all the time). Weather splendid 25 (feeling like 30). It took 8 hours to get there. Interesting day. Beautiful sceneries. I don't really manage the...

Temps clair. 25 degrés Je suis enfin arrivée à Lourdes et je suis officiellement une pèlerine. J'ai passé au bureau jacquaire. Ils ne doivent pas avoir beaucoup de monde car ils étaient aux petits soins avec moi. Ils m' ont aidés à faire toutes les réservations...