Day 1, St Jean to Orisson

The climb to Orisson wasn’t easy but nothing like as gruelling as I’d feared. Sadly the mountains were only sporadically visible through layers of cloud. Still beautiful and mysterious though - much more so than my photos suggest! We finished walking early and shivered outside our alberge until we were allowed in at 2.30. Perhaps we should have just walked on….
Once again Fiona and I met lovely people from all over at dinner. Two Canadian women, a South Korean couple, Tricia from Texas, Dominique from France, Daniel from Brazil, an Israeli couple, Julie from California and an Austrian couple who had walked 1600k from Austria.
We ate well and despite finding our host, Lorenzo, to be a somewhat lacking in charm, we agreed he ran a very professional operation. After dinner Julie kindly shared some of her photos which were much more appealing than mine.Read more