Via Bayonne

A walk across the Basque country from Bayonne to Burgos via San Sebastian. Read more

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Trip start
April 17, 2024
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Spanish gate in Bayonne
April 17, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Start point of the Via Bayona is the Spanish gate in the Bayonne fort in the old town where the road leads towards Spain.
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Bidart
April 17, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
First site of the sea after a wet start and needing to hide under a car wash canopy for 20 minutes and a very pleasant walk around a lake.
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Chapelle st. Madeleine
April 17, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
On the coast looking towards the Spanish border. Surf is up!
TravelerLooks great!
4/18/24Reply
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Guethary
April 17, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
A very picturesque and affluent holiday village of southern France with typical Basque architecture.
TravelerHi Terry. Glad to see you're out wearing out another pair of boots, Sorry we have not been in touch for some time . Will explain when you get back home.
4/19/24Reply
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Saint Juan de Luc
April 18, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
7 km into todays walk along the coast and have arrived in a very stylish coastal town of Saint Juan de Luc.
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Irun albergue
April 18, 2024 in France ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
It has taken all day to walk from Guthary in France to Irun in Spain. It started damp but because hot and bright in the afternoon. Arrived at 17.00 and went straight out to eat. Most pilgrims in the albergue have arrived by bus or train to start walking the Northern way. It appears that only myself, my Companion and two Spanish ladies walked here by the costal camino.Read more
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Gualdalupeko
April 19, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
On the way up the hill above Irun, only just in Spain.
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On top of the world; Jaizkibel
April 19, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Up at 547m with the bearded vultures, communication masts and with stunningly clear views towards France and the Bay of Biscay. It has been a savage climb up.
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Albergue views
April 19, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Some more views of the harbour from the albergue, including the ferry for tomorrow.
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Entering San Sebastian
Apr 20–23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 7 °C
A pleasant walk up from the port of Pasias if you ignore the 360 steps up out of the harbour. Pasias has a historical whaling history and the locals still race a type of rowing boats that were used for whaling. ARead more
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Playa de La Concha
April 20, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
In San Sebastian and they have wonderful beaches. One beach is for surfing and the Concha beach is for swimming, in perfectly clear and clean water with lots of fish.
Staying in a 1 star pension for tonight; no bunk beds thank god.Read more
Traveler If you had your rods with you could have caught your own supper
4/20/24Reply
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Hernani
April 21, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Hernani; a small town that was having a huge street market that was only just opening as we passed through.
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Andoain
April 21, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
A very cold night after a very sunny day's walking. Staying in an Albergue with few facilities except beds, toilet and shower. Short walk today along a path alongside a very infrequently used local train line. Picked up the albergue keys from the local police station.Read more
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Leaving Andoin
April 21, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Leaving last night's town and it is very cold. An Italian pilgrim joined us at the albergue last night; he has been on the road for the last 6 months on various caminos. Following the Oria river valley today. Walking to Tolosa today: no albergue but a nice hotel.Read more
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Tolosa bullring
April 22, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Arrived early afternoon and had a menu de dia with the jubliados (the local retirees) at a very reasonable price: 3 courses, wine, water and coffee for less than £10. A cold and sunny day but dry. Tomorrow is predicted to be wet! An interesting town with so many different building styles, deep in a river valley and surrounded by high hills.Read more
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Alegia, First coffee but no toast
April 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
Rain today; walked an hour before a coffee break.
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Ordizia
April 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ 🌫 8 °C
It was forecast to rain 14.7mm today and I think they underestimate the amount, as it rained heavily from 07.30 until 15.45 and we walked through 6.5 hours of this deluge. We had lunch at a very nice restaurant but left a puddle of water around our table that could have supported a considerable aquatic eco-system. I was reasonably dry under my stylish but practical poncho but I am starting to wonder how I have arrived at this situation. I am nearly 70 years of age and I am still wondering through the Spanish countryside, in the rain, with an increasingly heavy rucksack on my back, wearing pungent clothes that I can't wash and dry because of the very high local humidity and eating my way through the Basque country one large plate of carbohydrates at a time. Why didn't somebody stop me?Read more
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Beasain
April 23, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Now the rain has stopped we had a walk around this modern town. The albergue is part of a historical complex of old buildings and made very homely by the kind hospitaleros. Alijandro, the hostitalero from 4 nights ago came to visit us and brought wine, cheese and meat, which was very generous of him.Read more
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Segura, on the way to Zegama
April 24, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Coffee stop half way to tonight's albergue at Zegama. Snow on the mountains that we are crossing tomorrow is a sign that we will be getting colder with the gain in elevation but it is dry today.
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Zegama
April 24, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
A nice new albergue with a washing machine and a dryer, which we desperately needed. Collected the key from the town hall and used the 'town lift' to get from the lower town up to the albergue. The infrastructure is very good in these Basque towns. There is general concern about the climb through the mountains tomorrow. A gain in elevation of 800 metres in 8 km is going to be a long and painful experience (slope of 1 in 10 for 5 miles). The possibility of snow will just add jeopardy to the experience.Read more
Looks like you're enjoying yourself [John watts]
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St. Adrian tunnel and pass.
April 25, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
A very hard walk up to the St. Adrian tunnel through the mountains
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Past through the tunnel
April 25, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Through the tunnel and we continued up the foundations of a monumental Roman road to the high point of the day.
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Leizarrate; the highest point.
April 25, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
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Albergue at Salvatierra
April 25, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Very cold albergue with lots of squeaky and soft beds but only 3 of us here. Very, very tired from a hard day of 8 and a half hours of ascending and descending through the mountains, ending up with a 6 km trek along a reasonable flat road across a plain.Read more
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Agurain plaza major
April 26, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Leaving the main town square this morning to walk to Victoria which is a large and important town to the Basques.
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