Saint jean pied de port, France

Day 5 Here we are again, up and at em, packing the bags grabbing the breakfast (which has been interesting. I'll paragraph that in a bit) and loading the bus. We already had one ready or not here we go when we loaded the plane in Dallas, Houston, and ...

Depart a 7h le matin - Start at 7 AM

... of the title ¨all-you-can-eat¨at my Hotel, I showered, packed and then headed off for my 11;27 pm train to St Jean Pied de Port. Arriving on the platform, I was unsure if the parked train was indeed mine, and was fortunate to meet my first fellow pilgrim, ...

... the hills were in the early stages and when they plateaued things became much easier than I had expected. Eventually I cycled into Saint Jean Pied de Port (the town at the foot of the pass), my final stop in France and, rather pleasingly, 35 kms past the ...