Judith Upchurch
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Ponferrada-Santiago (2017)
Camino Frances (2019)
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the airport and train stations in Biarritz/Bayonne will be closed and transportation to St. Jean will be irregular during the G7 summit between the 23rd and 26th of August. Is there any other way to get to St. Jean other than through Biarritz/Bayonne from Paris?
That's because your train arrives after 16:00. Bayonne train station is closed from Friday 23 August (all day) until Monday 26 August 16:00.I have booked a train from Paris to Bayonne on the 26th - no sign of any problem during the process.
There are SNCF buses from Dax train station to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port during the G7 summit. They replace the regular train service to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port during the summit.
Thank you, Kathar1na! This is exactly the information I needed.
- Train or airplane to Pau
See also https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/g7-in-biarritz-from-24-to-26-august.62373/Express Bourricot and others provide transport from Pau to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
- Train from Paris via Bordeaux and Dax
There are SNCF buses from Dax train station to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port during the G7 summit. They are synchronised with the trains coming from Bordeaux and leave Dax at 9:50, 11:50, 13:50, 16:50 and 19:50 on Friday 23 August for example.These connections are displayed when you enter Paris and Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port into the booking service of the French Railways SNCF for 23 August 2019. They replace the regular train service to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port during the summit.
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I don't quite understand what you are saying. Below is what the French Railways SNCF are currently offering on the 26th of August for Bordeaux to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port from 8 am onwards. If you go to their website you can also see the details of the connections (i.e. all the stops and where you change) when you click on the appropriate fields. For the first two, there's a train to DAX and then a special bus (put on by SNCF; they call it Car TER) directly to SJPP. For the last two, there will be a TER train instead of a bus and you change in Bayonne and not in Dax. Note that Bordeaux Saint Jean is the name of the train station in Bordeaux.Well here we are three days before my booked fare and SNCF has advised the train from Paris will not be stopping at Bayonne on the 26th. This may mean it goes through without stopping or that it won’t go as far as Bayonne. The 4pm reopening might no longer be correct. My intention is to leave the train at Dax and use bus transport from there. Unless someone has better info. The link refrrring to bus services from DAX does not offer a bus on 26th.
OK, I understand. Well I don't know what Loco2 knows. Are you not certain whether to keep your booking or change it? I would probably check with SNCF directly but of course, wonderful thing these days, you can't email. You have to phone or use social media or their app if you want to contact them ...I was quoting from an email I received this afternoon from Loco2 which is the booking service I used.
Now you know who to blame. Not the working class for once but the "pigs" in suitsYes. Unless I learn additional info before I get on the train, I am assuming that Bayonne station is actually open for arrivals from 16:00 onwards. If I find I need to leave the train at DAX and use a bus I will do that.
Sorry for all the noise. I never expected the G7 would interfere with my travel planning.
Andrew
I suppose the reason why the train stations are closed are not any G7 participants as such but the fact that they want to keep protesters away. You can while your time away by watching a real time display of departure (départs) and arrival (arrivées) times in SNCF stations.I never expected the G7 would interfere with my travel planning.
I love starting the walk at Saint Palais, although I generally overnight at Ostabat and make it two days to SJPP. Love love love it.If you get there before 3:25 PM on a weekday you should be able to get the little local bus number 810 up to SJPP ; else sleep there overnight (St Palais is great, and the Camino goes through there BTW), and get it in the morning (it's about a 30 minute bus journey) -- else taxi, which would be cheaper than from Biarritz
Else walk from St Palais to SJPP on the Camino, it's the very end of the Vézelay Way and a beautiful one day hike ; if you did that, why not sleep at the Refugio there ?
I love starting the walk at Saint Palais, although I generally overnight at Ostabat and make it two days to SJPP. Love love love it.
If the weather is decent, I'm good for a couple hours sitting on the hill at the chapelle, just taking it all in. Best view on the camino.Northern, the Saint Palais to SJPP stage was one of my favourites on the 1994 that I did from Paris, and I heartily approve your excellent habit.
If the weather is decent, I'm good for a couple hours sitting on the hill at the chapelle, just taking it all in. Best view on the camino.
Hi Kather1na@AndrewDavOz, you must be in Paris by now. It looks like Bayonne station will be back in business later this afternoon and the 8541 will stop there today. Bon voyage and please let us know how it went!
The Paris route is on my list....I'm inclined to disagree, but then you've not seen what I have on the Paris route in summer ...
But yes, that particular vista is amazingly lovely.
The train was delayed by 40 mins by the time we reached DAX but was not delayed further after that so we reached Bayonne station around 5:30 and it was jumping, there were lots of people there and several trains. One may have been the train to SJPP and I wished I was on it.@AndrewDavOz, you must be in Paris by now. It looks like Bayonne station will be back in business later this afternoon and the 8541 will stop there today. Bon voyage and please let us know how it went!
Thank you for this feedback, @AndrewDavOz! I trust you had a good rest during a really quiet night in Bayonne, with both the big names and the protesters gone ☺! Have a wonderful camino!The train was delayed by 40 mins by the time we reached DAX but was not delayed further after that so we reached Bayonne station around 5:30 and it was jumping, there were lots of people there and several trains. One may have been the train to SJPP and I wished I was on it.
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