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DAY 11 ZARAUTZ/ ZUMAIA
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...
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DAY 15 MARKINA / GERNIKA
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...
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Lourdes le 09.04.2017 version française
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...
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DAY 16 GERNIKA/LARRABETZU
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...
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The days after the Camino
"Le chemin des vignes", the vineyear's camino" Back from the Camino.... after the euphoria of " I managed" come the depressing days of "no more walking the Camino", The restless legs syndrome. The first day is OK. Hairdresser, peeling, etc... becoming...
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DAY 2 ASSON - ARUDY 20,5 km Weather cloudy time 6,5 hours
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...
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DAY 18 BILBAO / PORTUGALETE
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...
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DAY 7 BAYONNE / BIARRITZ / SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ
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...
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Plan de voyage / Trip planning
The departure is imminent!!! Training is ongoing. I´m preparing the best I can, the weather is terrible but the reality helps in deciding what is following in the backpack (rain pants will follow). The backpack is now ready, the tickets bought and the...
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DAY 42 LOURENZA/ ABADIN
The cathedral of Mondoneo 25 km. Blue sky medium warm (around 22) it took 8 hours to get there. Can we say that the way was only up? A long day. No ups and downs only up, up, up. First stop after 8 km. Mondoneo. An old nice little town with a real big...
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DAY 3 ARUDY/ OLORON SAINT- MARIE
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....
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DAY 47 SALCEDA /SANTIAGO DI COMPOSTELLA
Compostella 28 km mixed weather, warm, stuffy, style 23 degrees. Very humid but not rainy. It took around 6 and half hours to get there Up quite late according to our own standard but we (a frenchman, his girlfriend, an Englishman and myself) had decided...
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DAY 19 20 and 21 BILBAO
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...
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DAY 48 SANTIAGO DI COMPOSTELLA
The COMPOSTELLA A few km in town, mainly looking at souvenir shops. Quite cold and rainy. Santiago. FIRST THING in the morning, getting the Compostella, the document that assures that you arrived to Compostella and finished your pilgrimage. I had always...
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DAY 23 CASTRO URDIALES / LAREDO
27,2 km Rain part of the time. Good weather in the afternoon. It took 6 and half hours to walk that part. Full drama on the Camino today!!!🤢 My friend ate something that did not fit (Don't know what but the ham sandwich, the orange juice or the apple...
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DAY 10 SAN SEBASTIAN / ZARAUTZ
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)...
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DAY 8 CAMPING TAMARIS PLAGE/ HONDARRIBIA (SPAIN)
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...
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DAY 14 DEBA/ MARKINA-XEMEIN
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...
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DAY 13 DEBA/LEKEITIO
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...
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DAY 4 OLORON SAINTE MARIE / L'HOPITAL SAINT BLAISE
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...
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Jour 1 LOURDES/ASSON
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...
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DAY 26 GUEMES / BOO DE PIELAGROS
26 km beautiful day 25 degrees 6 hours to get there Fantastic walk along the cliff. One of the best😁... to return to Santander. We met some of our fellow pilgrims again. We decided on taking the buss to leave Santander and walk the rest of the way to...
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DAY 38 CADAVEDO / LUARCA
17,5 km mainly cloudy but not rainy. 16 degrees 3h 30min to get there. Very short walk. After a good breakfast in the appartemento, we headed for Luarca. The feet were patched, cleaned, disinfected, massaged. It remains me a bit of these Japanese cows,...
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DAY 36 SAN MARTIN / SOTO DE LUINA
32, 5 km + 3,5 (took the wrong turn) pouring rain the all day. About 16 degrees. 9 long hours to get there. What a day!!! After such a nice hostel and a nice evening, it was a bit of a anticlimax to leave the hostel under pouring rain. I left with a couple,...
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DAY 32 LLANES/ RIBADESELLA
30 km blue sky, sometimes cloudy and even some rain last 15 minutes. It took 8 hours to reach the destination. A very long day. Interesting way but 30 km is a lot. Strange up to 25, it is no problem but the last ones are a real bitch. I have some problems...