Spanish gate in Bayonne
17 april 2024, Frankrike ⋅ ☁️ 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.
Bidart
17 april 2024, Frankrike ⋅ ☁️ 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.
Chapelle st. Madeleine
17 april 2024, Frankrike ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
On the coast looking towards the Spanish border. Surf is up!
Guethary
17 april 2024, Frankrike ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
A very picturesque and affluent holiday village of southern France with typical Basque architecture.
Saint Juan de Luc
18 april 2024, Frankrike ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
7 km into todays walk along the coast and have arrived in a very stylish coastal town of Saint Juan de Luc.
Irun albergue
18 april 2024, Frankrike ⋅ ☁️ 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 theLäs mer
Gualdalupeko
19 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
On the way up the hill above Irun, only just in Spain.
On top of the world; Jaizkibel
19 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 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.
Albergue views
19 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Some more views of the harbour from the albergue, including the ferry for tomorrow.
Entering San Sebastian
20–23 apr. 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 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 usedLäs mer
Playa de La Concha
20 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 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 forLäs mer
Hernani
21 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Hernani; a small town that was having a huge street market that was only just opening as we passed through.
Andoain
21 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 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 localLäs mer
Leaving Andoin
21 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ⛅ 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 riverLäs mer
Tolosa bullring
22 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☀️ 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.Läs mer
Alegia, First coffee but no toast
23 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ 🌧 7 °C
Rain today; walked an hour before a coffee break.
Ordizia
23 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ 🌫 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 niceLäs mer
Beasain
23 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 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 hostitaleroLäs mer
Segura, on the way to Zegama
24 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 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.
Zegama
24 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 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. TheLäs mer
St. Adrian tunnel and pass.
25 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
A very hard walk up to the St. Adrian tunnel through the mountains
Past through the tunnel
25 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Through the tunnel and we continued up the foundations of a monumental Roman road to the high point of the day.
Leizarrate; the highest point.
25 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C
Albergue at Salvatierra
25 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 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 aLäs mer
Agurain plaza major
26 april 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Leaving the main town square this morning to walk to Victoria which is a large and important town to the Basques.



























































































































