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[QUOTE="Desmond Walsh, post: 463086, member: 13415"] I started from Bordeaux in September 2013 and took 10 days to reach St Jean on the way to Santiago. I used the inland route first stopping at Gradignan in the southern suburbs of Bordeaux, then Barp, Belien-Bebliet, Moustey, Labouheyre, Onesse-Laharie, Taller, Dax,Cagnotte, Arancon, St Palais and finally St Jean Pied-Port. There is always accommodation (generally municipal gite) in a daily 20 to 25 km range. The sign posting is excellent thanks to the local Les Amis du St Jacques Association. The Les Landes scenery is a little monotonous until you reach the foothills of the Pyrennes after Dax. I found the flat terrain a wonderful conditioning exercise for the later climbs. I only met 4 other pilgrims heading for Santiago in sharp contrast to the numbers staring from St Jean. This route was also part of the medieval route from Bordeaux. At that time Les Landes was a much feared section due to difficult swampy terrain and bandits but it was transformed into a forest in the 18th century. Most of the forest still remains but thankfully the bandits seemed to have disappeared. [/QUOTE]
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