Camino Day Five- Puente de la Reina to Estella (15.1 Miles)
Random thoughts after five days on the Camino:
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Camino Day Four- Pamplona to Puente de la Reina (16.5 Miles)
We did 43,482 steps today. We walked out of the city of Pamplona with other early riser pilgrims. We made our way to the country and the hike up to the sculpture called the...
Camino Day Three- Zubiri to Pamploma (14.8 Miles)
It was a very long day today even though we got to Pamplona in 6 hours at 1:30. We bid farewell to Zubiri at 7:35 after a nice breakfast, and pounded our feet on...
Camino Day Two- Roncesvalles to Zubiri (13.7 Miles)
We awoke late at 7:30 after a very restless night, our bodies were sore. We begin walking at 8:45 after spending some time in the Chapel of Santiago praying for our nephew. The majority...
Camino Day One- St. Jean Pied de Port to Roncesvalles (15.5 Miles)
We finally make it to our start day! This is to be the hardest day of the Camino and it really is a challenge. We left at 7:45 out of the Town of St...
Saint Jean Pied de Port- The Start of the Camino Frances
We used a company called mydaytrips.com (Great Company!) to pick us up at our hotel in Lourdes and drive us three hours to St Jean Pied de Port. This is the town where the...
Lourdes France
We caught the 9:30 train from Barcelona to Lourdes, four trains later, at 6 pm, we arrived in Lourdes. Finally found a taxi to get us to the hotel with 30 minutes to shower...
The Rest of Barcelona
We walked all day both days in Barcelona. Beyond seeing the works of Gaudi we walked Parks, visited the Picasso Museum (which we last visited on our honeymoon in 1978), the Banksy Museum, ate...
Basilica de las Sagrada Familia
“To do things right, first you need love, then technique” Antoni Gaudi Diocesan architect Francisco de Paula del Villar was commissioned to head up the Basilica de las Sagrada design but left after one...
Barcelona- Architect Antoni Gaudi
After not sleeping well on our two flights (Seattle to Montreal and Montreal to Barcelona), we arrived at 7:30 and took a cab to our hotel. We are staying at the H10 Madison Hotel...