I recommend Madrid too, it just opens up all your options like the other board members said. I took a direct flight from Santiago to Madrid, there are buses, though they can be uncomfortable from what I heard from friends I met along the way and heard from later, after the freedown of the Camino...
I suggest taking the train to Pamplona then taking Express Bouricott to St Jean, they are a private shuttle service in this area. http://www.expressbourricot.com/en.html
Hi, Congratulations on your upcoming Camino. I did mine last year from St Jean and it took me 33 days, not a day goes by that I don't think about it. Like you I traveled from the U.S. (as you can see from my screen name I live in San Diego. Anyway I wanted to pass along a little info on how I...
Just a thought, and maybe you've already done this, check is your Spam folder, for some reason the emails I was getting from the hostal in St Jean was going into mine. Like you I had emailed them and heard nothing back but one day I thought to check there and my confirmations were there. My...
Express Bourricot is still in operation, I contacted them last week to arrange transport from Pamplona to St Jean. I contacted them via their website and they got back to me the next day. They are a great bargain, I got transport from Pamplona to St Jean for 24 Euros a person. I was just looking...
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