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    Public holiday and rest day recommendation please

    May 1st can be a problem in Spain as it is very much a "rest day" for working people. In Zafra where we arrived at mid-day there were not any shops open - butchers, bakers, grocers were all closed. Bars had little more than crisps on offer and the only restaurant we could find was run and...
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    Hostel in Bayonne or Biarritz?

    I can happily recommend the pilgrim friendly Hotel Paris Madrid, next to the railway station in Bayonne. The bus from Biarritz Airport will take you almost to the door. Laurie
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    St. Jean or Roncesvalles

    I recommend the walk over the Pyrenees, so that the pilgrimage starts from outside Spain, but the walk itself is worthwhile. Getting to St. Jean from England is straightforward - by train or air to Bayonne and then the train up the valley to St. Jean. I do not know if the whole journey can...
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    Your favorite refuge

    Favourite Refuges Rabanal and Gaucelmo - is one and the same refuge intended here, namely the C.S.J. house. I assume so. If not, which of the other two refuges in Rabanal is on the list?
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    Famous Pilgrims

    This is my first message. Can I suggest the Wife of Bath as a famous pilgrim, a fictional character but one representing many thousands of pilgrims who did go to Santiago? Chaucer's pilgrims walked on the line of a Roman road from London to Canterbury nearly a thousand years after the...

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