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Pilgrimage through the Voie Nive Bidassoa: A Winter Adventure
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[QUOTE="jackinatent, post: 1225814, member: 114250"] Hi Aurigny and everyone else We enjoyed your write up as we walked the VNB last year, as it is the only write up in English we could find. To help others who may find themselves here in similar circumstances, we have a couple of things to add: 1. An updated list of instructions can now be had from the pilgrim office in SJPdP. We found these fairly useful with only limited French 2. GPS tracks can be found online, though the source we found failed to include a short section on the descent to Ascain, why I don't know, but if you have any common sense or a map it is hard to get lost. If anyone has any interest i will export my GPS track to fill in the gap. 3. Accommodation at Espelette - we stayed at the Galeri d'Art which as it sounds is also an artist's gallery. We got the number I think from Espelette tourist information. It was very good and at the right price. 4. As Aurigny says, there are few amenities. We filled up on water in churches as Aurigny suggests above but carried the entirety of our food, which was a good decision excepting that I suppose we could have resupplied in Ascain. Overall I thought it was a fairly utilitarian route which we took to link two places. I enjoyed it though, and I don't think it was as hard as all that - I wonder if our GPS/new instructions took us a slightly different route perhaps. We took two days over it and that was a stretch, we were very fit at the time. That said i think that 4 days as per Aurigny's suggested itinerary would be a bit tedious at 20 km/day, many of them quite fast km. I would instead suggest accepting one long day and two shorter ones if you can. One fringe benefit of the VNB is seeing your first glimpse of the Atlantic after (presumably) a long walk from somewhere in France which buoys the spirits considerably though depending on your plans might herald the unwelcome end of your walk. [/QUOTE]
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