Tag: saint jean pied de port

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

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!

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,…