iHola amigos!
Last time I posted was in October 2009 - we had reached Santiago de Compostella after hiking about 150-160 miles over the last third of the Camino. Now in October 2010, a designated Holy Year because the feast of Santiago (St. James the Apostle) fell on a Sunday, we are going to hike as much of the first third of the Camino as we can.
We will begin at St. Jean Pied de Port in France at the base of the Pyrenees and go up over a col, then down into Roncevalles -- the place of the noble Roland's death - Charlemagne's trusted knight immortalized in the medieval "Song of Roland." He and his comrades were ambushed by Basques. We will be traveling in Basque country for several days -- the Basque language is still a puzzle - it is called "Euskara" in the Basque. Some say the Basques are the lost people of Atlantis and that is why their language is so different from any other known tongue.
Because we walked at least 100km to Santiago, John and I received our pilgrim certificates last year. We had to show our pilgrim passport with stamps for each city we visited. I will be posting photos from last year.
We leave Friday, October 8 and will be stopping to London, en route to Biarritz and then a bus to St. Jean Pied de Port. The walk will actually begin around October 13 or 14.
More to come. Thanks for reading. iBuen Camino!
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