Les Volets Bleus Arcangues

... Pinxos restaurant she, Ev, and Jullie had loved 3 weeks earlier. It was truly amazing and we enjoyed talking with a lovely british couple who now run a B&B in Provence. Judy and the kids had a wet but fun time, as the weather had finally turned south.

                       

I don't really need to tell you what we did do I? Take one part playground, one part beach, and one part sunset and you have a Kramer day in Biarritz.

           

Judy spent the day with Pierre, a former wrestler and French Olympic wresting coach (he went with the team to Atlanta) who she had met on the train ride a few days ...

... we tried to get a lesson from our hostel but they said the instructor wasn´t available. I think he was hungover because I saw him moping around the hostel. We rented boards and head out to Playa Zuricola, tons of surfers were out and the waves look meanacing. Thank god the dude renting the boards told us where the ...

... that, and about religion. i had been nervous about meeting ¨religious¨people on the trail, as i wasn´t sure how open i was able to talk about my feelings and questions on religious matters. however, he has proved to be very very open to discussion and a very great companion to help me start asking some questions as to why i am here on the camino. religious concerns may not be the primary reason, but questioning of a greater power is pretty constant in my life. exhausted, from the ...

Our first day was just a short walk from Roncesvalles to Viscarret (about 15km) it was too late and we called the next village (Zubiri) but was full, so we stopped in that village, the drawback was the price of the hostel, cuz in that village there's no refuge, but me and my mum could sleep in a great room with our bath, the first and last pilgrimage luxury.

Our first impression: this is pretty easy! we don't feel tired, so tomorrow we should walk much more!

We arrived to Roncesvalles from Madrid at 1pm so we decided to start our trip that afternoon.
After take our first pictures we asked the people from the village we began our trip, we felt very strong as if we were going to eat the world!!!

Roncesvalles was amazing, our first impression of the Camino couldn't be greater, the refuge is like a great castle, there we get our first stamp!!!

The Camino has started! Buen Camino!

... etre que vous avez deja vu cela a la TV, mais c'est a Pamplona que, une fois par annee, ils lachent des taureaux en liberte dans la rue et les gens essaient de se sauver... Malheureusement, ca a lieu au printemps :( A 18h00, j'ai pris l'autobus pour mon rendre a Roncesvalles, mon point de depart pour el camino de Santiago. Dans l'autobus, j'ai rencontre un couple de francais tres sympatiques qui habitent maintenant en Belgique ...

... sentiva, e con una convinzione davvero coinvolgente, fino all'ultreya finale praticamente urlato. tutti i pellegrini ammassati di fronte all'altare, e tutti visibilmente emozionati compresi quelli che verosimilmente non hanno capito una parola. confido che in questi 20 minuti di blog il freddo e la pioggia si siano ridotte un pochino... ci sentiamo stasera (spero) da dove riusciro' ad arrivare. mi hanno assicurato che nella prossima valle ci sara' il sole.. speriamo!

... and ceiling into the lines of their drawings. This is the original graffiti, but it tells us more about our world than "Maria te amo Rodrigo" ever will. Even the Paleolithic equivalent of tagging - reverse "air brushed" hand prints - give us useful anthropological data**. Does this mean that "Crusha", "Spaz" and "Taza" will contribute more to future knowledge than that we couldn't spell and had a highly-stylised lettering system? We spent the night in Santillana del Mar, population ...