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Hello,
I am planning to start from Roncesvalles and am considering two options.
Which one would you recommend?
from Madrid to Roncesvalles by bus (is there a direct line)?
or
from Paris to SJPP (train) and from SJPP to Roncesvalles (taxi?)?
Thanx
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
Part frances jun 07/rest frances may- jun 2008/Frances sept-oct 2009/ Sanabres Oct 2010/Frances sept-oct 2011/Aragones Sept-Oct 2012. Hospitalero Sept 2010, Amiga in Pilgrim's Office Oct 2013. Part Primitivo Oct 2013. Portugues from Porto June 2015.
Hello Mara, As Sil wrote, it depends when your flight arrives in Madrid. There is a daily bus from the centre of Madrid (but you have to get there, either by bus or metro), leaving Madrid at 10.30 and arriving in Pamplona at 15.15. That gives you time to look around and take the only bus of the day, which leaves at 6.00 p.m.(it's earlier on Saturdays and there is no service on Sundays). There is an extra bus on Fridays and Sundays, leaving Pamplona at 12.00 and arriving in Pamplona at 16.45. Because our flight doesn't arrive at Madrid until 11.30, we have booked on the connecting flight for Pamplona and have also booked our flight returning from Santiago back to Madrid to connect with our international flight. It actually works out cheaper, than taking the transport into Madrid and then the intercity bus.It also saves on a hotel night in Madrid (I'd rather stay one more night or even two in Santiago)! Anne
2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:
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