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Vasco del Interior - impressions and photos
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[QUOTE="peregrino_tom, post: 334990, member: 4307"] I walked this way in June and really enjoyed it. I journeyed with a couple of compadres, a Catalan and a Basque, who helped with the language, and it made for many interesting discussions about politics, culture and autonomy! I wanted to see if it was possible to stay in albergues every night - and indeed it was. At the start the province of Gipuzkoa is hilly and steep, although for the most part the route follows the river valley into the hinterland. Because the valley floor is flat, all the roads, trains, industry and town want to occupy it as well, but you leave all this behind after a couple of days. Overall, there’s a similar amount of walking on asphalt as the Norte, Portugues or Ingles, but in the early part you are at least on pavement and cycleways for most of this. Once through the St Adrian Tunnel the landscape widens out and it's generally quiet. I found the Basque people, lands, food, culture and history to be fascinating. I’m now reading Kurlansky’s The Basque History of the World so that some more things are starting to make sense... If I can recommend just one thing it would be the guided tour of the renovations of the cathedral of Santa Maria in Vitoria Gasteiz. Amazing. It’s a lovely and surprising camino and I wholeheartedly recommend it. In terms of a guide book - the CSJ one is worth it for the insight and cultural detail but otherwise quite out of date. We took the Gronze pages, from which I transferred the distances and albergue details onto a single sheet. I’ve attached it as a PDF, but send me a message if you want the original spreadsheet. I’ve written a longer piece for the CSJ website [URL='http://www.csj.org.uk/vasco-impressions-june-2015/']here[/URL] and have placed [URL='https://www.flickr.com/photos/peregrino_tom/sets/72157654492550364']a set of photos on Flickr[/URL] Zorte ona, tom [/QUOTE]
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