Walked the challenging Napoleon Route over the Pyrenees and down into Roncesvalles, a distance of 28 kilometres and rising over 1 200 metres through the Col de Lepoder from Saint Jean Pied de Port.We left in a soupy fog at 7.20am. It was around 3 degrees C and we arrived in Roncevalles at 4.30pm with … Read more
Maybe the last of the rains today but it was heavy in spurts and misty fog hung in the valleys so I decided to chill for the day in Saint Jean and get an dawn-early start in the morning. I was staying in a private two-room guest house called Maison Bakea just further out on … Read more
The train from Gare de Bayonne became a winding bus ride up the valley of the Nive River through lush-green forests to Saint Jean Pied de Port. Anyway the road hugged the single-track railway line. Then we saw the Pyrenees beyond and they looked daring and brooding below dary grey clouds that bellowed and clung … Read more
Fly out on Wednesday to Biarritz and then by train to St Jean Pied de Port and the main starting point of the Camino Frances and the “foot of the pass” to Rocesvalles (Spanish) Orreaga (Basque) and Roncevaux in French. It could be the most challenging day of the entire Camino all at the beginning … Read more