Too-rah
23. marts 2024, Australien ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Taking carry-on only for international flights is exactly the flex you'd expect. Every single person in three airports so far has looked at me and thought 'wow I can tell she hasn't checked any bagsLæs mere
Smug-gler
24. marts 2024, Qatar ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Backpacking with medication that has to stay between 2 and 8 degrees has been, for months, my incredibly boring party lecture, and I do apologise to any of you I've managed to separate from the herdLæs mere
Biarritz
24. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Biarritz is taking the absolute piss. Full report (positive) later.
P.s you'll note I've shut up about the medicine - don't argue just count your blessings.
Bizzy
24. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
So Biarritz is lovely, big surf scene here and it's got pockets of fanciness without being in your face about it. Always a sign of a town doing well when there are tonnes of e-cargo bikes and exoticLæs mere
P(retty) T(ragic)
24. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
In what I'll warn you now is bound to become a series, I have spent half the day pottering around looking at and using public transport, and taking photos I trust will beLæs mere
Cafe au lait aka redemption
25. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
Mission of the day, which I set myself and therefore accepted, was to not let being a little bitch get in the way. A regret I bring home from anywhere with a language barrier I've travelled isLæs mere
Creepy pap behaviour
25. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
I won't be judged.
My dork mates
25. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Everyone on this train looks like me, hurrah! Dismayed to note most of them have also packed very efficiently, what do you MEAN I'm not special, how will I be the number 1 best pilgrim now?
Big feelings on the start line
25. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
You can start your camino anywhere really, and there are lots of routes to Santiago de Compostela.
In the modern era St Jean Pied de Port (SJPP), a small town near the border on the French side ofLæs mere
Cat count
25. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Goals are important, and one I've got in 2024 is to pat 50 cats.
This was going pretty terribly, as I burned through the low hanging cat-fruit quickly with B and the three that live on my street -Læs mere
Vending genius
25. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
I've seen all I need to see, this is now a religious pilgrimage and the religion is centred around a big vending machine in the sky. All hail sky dispenser.
It begins
26. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ 🌧 6 °C
SJPP to Roncesvalles - part 1
26. marts 2024, Frankrig ⋅ 🌧 5 °C
It's been difficult to know which language to start with on the first day of the Camino because we are in France, but Spanish is the language of the Camino, and as much as English is probably theLæs mere
Lunch in honour of Bran and Block
26. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ 🌫 4 °C
After four hours of walking, I figured it was lunchtime, and as I was in Valcarlos, I had a decision to make - stay here for the night or push on to Roncesvalles?
To help me think, and invoke theLæs mere
SJPP to Roncesvalles - part 2
26. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
I pushed on - the absolute hubris on me, can you believe! This isn't what my itinerary said! I've dipped my toe into the fast and loose pool and it's nice in here.
It was important for me to walk onLæs mere
A vision in the snow
26. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ 🌙 1 °C
Home for tonight is this albergue (pilgrim hostel) with a whopping 200+ beds, across three floors, in pods of four. In mine I've got Tigore from England, a 74 year old Swedish guy who was so committedLæs mere
Tip shop abroad
27. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ 🌙 1 °C
A fun game is emerging. I've decided you win by finding the most bonkers thing someone brought with them then culled, and I'll be playing against myself throughout the trip. This was my entry forLæs mere
To summon the spirit of Eva
27. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C
...the remaining third of my advisory board of walking angels, I decided this would be my wallet for the trip. I think its secure in the sense it shows any would-be thief that I have a sense of humourLæs mere
Roncesvalles to Zubiri - part one
27. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
A 22km stage today, optimistically framed by the gang as short and downhill, between Roncesvalles at 960m and industrial Zubiri at 520m. Got up at 5.45am once I heard the first toilet flush (I didn'tLæs mere
Roncesvalles to Zubiri - part two
27. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
Today's path is almost all off the road, which is good because I'd started to wave to cars that gave me space yesterday and clearly I was losing my edge. The mud got a bit annoying, but you can't haveLæs mere
Bulking up in Zubiri
27. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Doing the bare minimum to read between the lines, you'll have determined I was in a weird mood arriving to Zubiri, which was not helped by checking into the supposed to be €8 albergue and gettingLæs mere
Onya Rusty
28. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
I never doubted you mate.
Instead of a smart watch
28. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
...I have this photocopy wot that nice lady in SJPP gave me. See what I mean about SJPP to Roncesvalles? The top line is the Napoleonic route which was closed, the dotted bottom line is via Valcarlos.Læs mere
Fast and Zubirious
28. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 5 °C
Nicole found BLANKETS last night so I am starting today both well fed and reasonably rested which, turns out, makes a huge difference. I wrapped myself up then slotted myself into my sleeping bag,Læs mere
Zubiri to Pamplona - part one
28. marts 2024, Spanien ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
What an absolute Great Day. Folk pop usually makes me either really happy or really sad but the gamble with Noah Khan's Stick Season album paid off today and I was swinging my arms and tilting my headLæs mere







































































































































RejsendeHard to think of a reply for such a perfect first Post. Go forth and continue to show’em how it’s done! - F
RejsendeWow Lexie!! Very impressive! I'll be thinking of you fondly for more than 15 years... What a great start to your trek. 😍🤩
RejsendeAww same here Jacquie 🤩