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This is a very encouraging message for me thank you! continue enjoying your great camino!I'm sending this from Zubiri - we're on the camino at last! Two years of planning (longer than that thinking about it) and having originally planned to start last September - I've posted here before about having to postpone at the last minute and have major surgery. But after all that, and still not as fit as I was before the surgery, my mother and I have finally started! We're taking it VERY slowly to begin with (we started in Roncesvalles and have taken three days to get this far - don't laugh! We'll build up our distances gradually, we have the time, and will have rest days.
So far so utterly beautiful, really. The trees just coming into leaf, wild flowers everywhere, birds singing and everyone so friendly and welcoming. We've met lots of other pilgrims (mostly as they stride past us! ) and it's such a thrill to be finally able to exchange "Buen caminos" with them!
We're having a great time so far (with the possible exception of that famous descent into Zubiri! We had planned to detour via the road but then said what the heck and just went for it. Well. .. We survived anyway! )
I'll try to post occasionally as we go.
Buen camino!
Buen Camino! Enjoy!Wow!! it all sounds wonderful. We start our Camino May 1, but I have not had much luck organising the first couple of nights. I don't know wether to be excited or worried!!
We fly into Barcelona April 29th, so I hope to be able to get the train to Pamplona, where we were to stay the night, but have just received an email to say that Pension Corazon Puro is full up so will try to book elsewhere. Next morning we hope to get a bus to SJPdeP. I did not book a place there as I thought there would be plenty of places to stay. Oh dear!!
Orisson is also full, so I was thinking that we should start at Pamplona, but I really wanted to visit SJPdeP
Tis the season, you are arriving on the eve of a long holiday weekend in France and Spain so lots of people will be out walking during the weeks before and after May Day. Expect limited services and closed shops during the weekend as wellWow!! it all sounds wonderful. We start our Camino May 1, but I have not had much luck organising the first couple of nights. I don't know wether to be excited or worried!!
We fly into Barcelona April 29th, so I hope to be able to get the train to Pamplona, where we were to stay the night, but have just received an email to say that Pension Corazon Puro is full up so will try to book elsewhere. Next morning we hope to get a bus to SJPdeP. I did not book a place there as I thought there would be plenty of places to stay. Oh dear!!
Orisson is also full, so I was thinking that we should start at Pamplona, but I really wanted to visit SJPdeP
Please Biarritzdon elaborate, what kind of a holyday, I start the Camino 27/5, is it going to affect me? how many days? Thank youTis the season, you are arriving on the eve of a long holiday weekend in France and Spain so lots of people will be out walking during the weeks before and after May Day. Expect limited services and closed shops during the weekend as well.
May first is labor day in Spain and France, it is not an insignificant holiday. Workers have mandated time off, shops are closed, etc. The fact that it falls on a weekend this year means that many people will make a 4 day weekend out of it, this means shop owners as well in a lot of cases. I guess the closest comparison in the US would be maybe Christmas falling on a Friday. Lots of French and Spanish residents will add the week before and/or the week after for vacations and travel.Please Biarritzdon elaborate, what kind of a holyday, I start the Camino 27/5, is it going to affect me? how many days? Thank you
We are arriving to pick up our Camino in Pamplona next Monday, hope our paths cross on "The Way"I'm sending this from Zubiri - we're on the camino at last! Two years of planning (longer than that thinking about it) and having originally planned to start last September - I've posted here before about having to postpone at the last minute and have major surgery. But after all that, and still not as fit as I was before the surgery, my mother and I have finally started! We're taking it VERY slowly to begin with (we started in Roncesvalles and have taken three days to get this far - don't laugh! We'll build up our distances gradually, we have the time, and will have rest days.
So far so utterly beautiful, really. The trees just coming into leaf, wild flowers everywhere, birds singing and everyone so friendly and welcoming. We've met lots of other pilgrims (mostly as they stride past us! ) and it's such a thrill to be finally able to exchange "Buen caminos" with them!
We're having a great time so far (with the possible exception of that famous descent into Zubiri! We had planned to detour via the road but then said what the heck and just went for it. Well. .. We survived anyway! )
I'll try to post occasionally as we go.
Buen camino!
Thank you!May first is labor day in Spain and France, it is not an insignificant holiday. Workers have mandated time off, shops are closed, etc. The fact that it falls on a weekend this year means that many people will make a 4 day weekend out of it, this means shop owners as well in a lot of cases. I guess the closest comparison in the US would be maybe Christmas falling on a Friday. Lots of French and Spanish residents will add the week before and/or the week after for vacations and travel.
So no, it will not affect you because you will be there 4 weeks later.
I am in the process of planning my camino for 2016. biarritzdon, You are knowledgeable about this 'May Day' holiday....is there a list of other holidays : spring/summer/fall that might affect availability of services along the camino? Appreciate any info you might direct me towards. Kind thanks, good sir.Tis the season, you are arriving on the eve of a long holiday weekend in France and Spain so lots of people will be out walking during the weeks before and after May Day. Expect limited services and closed shops during the weekend as well.
I am in the process of planning my camino for 2016. biarritzdon, You are knowledgeable about this 'May Day' holiday....is there a list of other holidays : spring/summer/fall that might affect availability of services along the camino? Appreciate any info you might direct me towards. Kind thanks, good sir.
Thank you! So obvious, it escaped me! Buen Camino!Googling "Public Holidays Spain" throws up a few lists add the year, and off you go!
Good luck!
Enjoy! Buen Camino.Wonderful! Being, walking, savoring. Perfect. Buen Camino!
Hope you can stop in Zabaldika to stay with the sisters...a magical place.
There are lots of local festivals during the summer in addition to the national holidays. Finding the dates and locations might take a little more searching, I do not know if there is specific site for finding them but you could try amawalker.blogspot.fr I've been in Puenta la Reina and Sahagun during two of them and most involve running bulls and bull fighting. For instance, the Fete de Bayonne is at the end of July, there will probably be close to million people visiting there over the 5 days.I am in the process of planning my camino for 2016. biarritzdon, You are knowledgeable about this 'May Day' holiday....is there a list of other holidays : spring/summer/fall that might affect availability of services along the camino? Appreciate any info you might direct me towards. Kind thanks, good sir.
Thanks, biarritzdon!There are lots of local festivals during the summer in addition to the national holidays. Finding the dates and locations might take a little more searching, I do not know if there is specific site for finding them but you could try amawalker.blogspot.fr I've been in Puenta la Reina and Sahagun during two of them and most involve running bulls and bull fighting. For instance, the Fete de Bayonne is at the end of July, there will probably be close to million people visiting there over the 5 days.
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