Hi all,
Can anyone offer advice.We have decided to begin our Camino in Pamplona but our flights were already booked to Biarritz ( long story ).. so now looking at available transport from Biarritz airport to Pamplona.
All suggestions welcome
Breda
Thank you Irishrock, yes I would love to find a train service and was surprised not to find one. I will try rome2rio.Rome2rio
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rome2rio is a fantastic service...looks like there is bus service, but I don't see (and am surprised) to not see a train
I saw this also. Need to rethink my journeyHi! Clicked on link
For Alsa bus
The frequency says bus only goes twice a week!
Woody
@Bretom, while searching, consider two separate sections: Biarritz to Hendaye (on the French side of the border and Irun (on the Spanish side) to Pamplona. This increases your chances of finding a combination of trains and/or busses that will suit your purposes. Buen Camino!I saw this also. Need to rethink my journey
Not the most obvious choice but if the times work out ok then it could be the best.You could go to SJPdP and take the ALSA/CONDA bus that people use to get there from Pamplona on its return trip.
You could go to SJPdP and take the ALSA/CONDA bus that people use to get there from Pamplona on its return trip.
I took the OP's post seriously.Not the most obvious choice but if the times work out ok then it could be the best.
All suggestions welcome
There is a bus or train from Biarritz to SJPdP?You could go to SJPdP and take the ALSA/CONDA bus that people use to get there from Pamplona on its return trip.
My mind is slipping. I thought the Bayonne to SJPdP rail service passed though Biarritz. But anyway ...There is a bus or train from Biarritz to SJPdP?
Hello Tincatinker,From where I live there is one train a day to Milton Keynes. I’m always a little surprised by this as I can think of no reason why anyone who lives in my lovely little south coast harbour town would possibly want to go to Milton Keynes. But it exists. Few, other than those obsessed by the arcanities of rail travel, would wish to undertake the journey which, according to the timetable takes about 4 millennia, and offers the sole benefit of not having to change trains. The drivers are presumably selected on the basis of their lack of family ties or any social obligations or needs.
Similarly, a journey from Biarritz to Pamplona is one that no local habitant is likely to ever wish to undertake. Therefore, the existence of even one bus a day between a place that no rational traveler would start from to a place that no one from there would ever wish to go to is, for me, astonishing.
This is of course just a further expression of my continued amazement that pilgrims will book their ‘plane tickets, train tickets, and even their first 900 days accommodation without reference to how those aspirations might be achieved.
May the good ( and bad) gods forbid that life on this poor benighted planet should ever be easy. They’ve never forbade us from looking at a map, a railway timetable or even Godgle in an hope that we could sort our lives out for ourselves.
“If I was going there I wouldn’t start from here” is the finest advice I was ever given