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Martin the other option on Ryanair that is fairly easily followed is fly to Biarritz and then bus to San Sebastian and bus to Logrono. From memory from the last time the connections work really well. But Madrid to Logrono should work as well...depends on what prices you are getting for either...
Laura Last Easter we travelled by bus from Biarritz airport to San Sebastian and then from San Sebastian to Estella. It all worked like clockwork, as indeed have any of the various spanish bus routes we were looking at. I spent a lot of time looking at various options and ended up realising that...
A note of caution on water...we did the day from SJPP to Roncesvalles at the end of October and a lot of people were caught out to find out that Orisson was closed. At the same time when we got to the Roland fountain there was a very slow trickle of water. Evidently earlier in the day there was...
I am fascinated by the level of agitation that this event is causing. I wonder did the locals who were using the paths for whatever commercial/social reason they originally had look aghast at the first pilgrim(or the first modern day pilgrim with a backpack) with a sense of trepidation as to why...
Well to endorse the suggestion on Gauchos:
I was doing a week on the Camino at the end of October/beginning of the November and of the small group of us who had gotten to know each other between St J P d P, one of the couples had gotten engaged near the river a bit outside Larrasoana. We...
Just putting this up to make it appear on the calendar...a feature I have actually not noticed before! The weather forecast is looking good but I am wondering if we will be walking our way up the hill with either the equivalent of the broom wagon from the Tour de France or a van containing...
You are a lucky woman to have someone in your life so supportive! The only word of caution I would add is that last year I developed plantaars and did not treat it as kindly as I should, leading to me having to abandon daily walking for anything over 45 minutes for 4-5 months. Like everyone else...
My thoughts are that when 250,000 people per year do any activity there will be such a variety of experiences approaches and opinions, and all of them may not be compatible with mine, but the very variety is wonderful. And I think over the 7500 kms or whatever all the routes encompass there is...
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