St Jean Pied de Port

We've arrived to the first stop, our launching point to begin a thousand year old pilgrimage route. Our first stop was to the pilgrims office where we picked up our pilgrim passport, Compostela, and shells, the symbol of pilgrims on this route, which we tied on to our bags to give our narwhales company. We weighed our bags as well, without water Tom's was 18lbs and mine was 15lbs, still quite a bit more than my goal of 10% of my body weight.

All of the hostels booked up and we felt lucky that we had reserved two beds in the Auberge du Pèlerin. I got the bottom bunk...Unfortunately, there was a snoring pilgrim across from me. 💤Read more