Tag: france
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Lucky Stumble
One of the ways I love learning about a town/village/city is to just walk out the door with no real plan, to see what I can stumble upon. I get a more local feel for the place, and it satisfies my need to explore. I especially needed escapes like this on this cruise — to…
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French Camino
Our cruise stopped in the tiny town of Le Verdon-sur-Mer, the port access for the Bordeaux region. I didn’t feel like doing any cruise-organized tours, so decided to just walk off the ship & see what happened. I’m gonna do a full post on the great day I had, but first a quick one on…
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Shipictures
One of the many strange behaviors your pick up on a cruise is constantly taking pictures of the ship: Pictures of just the ship; pictures of the ship with dramatic backgrounds; pictures of the ship doing fun things. I imagine this is what it’s like to have a dog or kid, where your phone’s photo…
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Cruise for Thought
I’m usually a healthy* eater and also pretty disciplined when it comes to what time I eat, and how much. This all changes when there’s free food, though, so cruises are all about the “free” food for me. I love it, lose all control, and have zero regrets during or after. Which is why by…
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One of the cool things that happened on my Camino is that I was lucky enough to begin when the photographer Javier Iglesias Ramos was starting a new project. He calls it “IN ITINERE”, and it consists of taking a picture of each peregrino that arrived on their first day in Roncesvalles, and then another…
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Camino Stops
Timo’s Camino de Santiago via Camino Frances: Day 1 (7-Mar-2023): Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France → Roncesvalles, Spain (25km) Day 2: Roncesvalles → Urdaniz (24km) Day 3: Urdaniz → Pamplona (16km) Day 4: Pamplona → Puente la Reina (24km) Day 5: Puente la Reina → Estella (21km) Day 6: Estella → Torres del Rio (27km) Day 7: Torres…
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Camino de Santiago Day 1: Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port → Roncesvalle • 25 km • 42k steps • 6.5 hours After taking the first step and passing through the final arch in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, you have to make a big choice whether to go left or right at this intersection: Alas, since it’s winter, the left route, which goes…
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Day Two of the Camino has been amazing, but I still don’t feeling like writing, so I’m gonna slow roll this. Here’s the final arch you pass out of from the center of town, to formally start things
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I plan on doing a post about each day of the Camino de Santiago but today’s stage that took us on a climb into the Pyrenees was wicked hard, and I’m too tired to write. So, just a picture of me taking my first step on my Camino — only 1,000,000 more to go!
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Arriving in a unfamiliar, small, mountain town in the dark can be both the worst, and the best. The Worst: = You have no bearings or idea where you’re going, you can’t see anything, and towns like Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port shut down really early, so there’s nobody around to help, etc. The hotel receptions also close early,…
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Long transit stops can be both the worst, and the best. The worst = A three hour train station layover in a town I had no plan to visit, Bayonne (though the station was a picturesque old thing) The best = Discovering that Bayonne is a great little Basque city, with beautiful, medieval, winding streets.…
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Paris is sooo Paris. It’s everything you’ve heard, read, seen. Everything you expected & wanted. The sights, the streets, the food, the history, the cafes. The cafes!
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I’m in Paris now, which means toilette pics instead of toilet pics
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