ROAD TO SANTIAGO

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This hopefully will keep you up to date on events leading up to our trip in September.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Saint Jean Pied de Port


7th September 2011
900 miles later we arrive at our first stop Saint Jean Pied de Port . The journey was long with only a 2 hour nap at a truck stop, hats off to lorry drivers who manage to keep on trucking after a noisy night at one of those. We probably could have cut a couple of hours off if we hadn’t overloaded the van with 2 main essentials.
1)50 packets of wine gums
2)50 malt loaves
Essential ingredients for any long journey in my opinion.

We arrived early in the morning to bright sunshine and a temperature of 26 deg. a warm welcome from the cool and wet of England .The town is a hustle and bustle of visitors and travellers on the Camino de Santiago..
My First stop was to get my Compostella and first stamp from the official Camino office a very buy place with walkers and cyclist’s alike filling in forms to enable them to travel along The Way. After a short time I had been briefed on the first leg and were not to go, and then suddenly.......   I had it... my first stamp together with a sea shell (the sign of the The Way of St James) attached to my pack. I now feel very privileged to be part of this and ready for the early start tomorrow over the Pyrenees to Roncesvalles to another country SPAIN…….ARRIBA …ARRIBA.
My First Stamp On The Compostella..................
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Location: 64220 Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France

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  1. AnonymousOctober 31, 2011 at 4:03 AM

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  2. AnonymousOctober 31, 2011 at 4:05 AM

    The name Saint Jean Pied de Port brings back good memories..
    Nice blog, good to read the impressions of the Camino.

    One of these things you must have done at least once in your life.

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