Wynette: Yesterday morning while walking through Irache, deep in wine country, we came to fountain provided for peregrinos. Wine comes out the spout freely. Fun. There is a video cam there. If you’d been watching you’d have seen us. But… Continue Reading
We’ve found that with these not-so-fast internets we are on that it’s easier to post videos through dropbox albums. But we just discovered the videos on dropbox albums won’t play on our mobile phones. We hope they are working ok… Continue Reading
Wynette: Last night we stayed in Casa Rural Montedeio in the tiny village of Villamayor de Monjardin. (A “casa rural” is kind of a bed and breakfast.) For 40 euros we had a large, comfortable, pretty room and access to… Continue Reading
No not this one, which we passed on the trail. Here drainage from a field washed out a short section of the trail. But later, just outside of Puente la Reina, there was a sign saying we had to take… Continue Reading
The Camino is an important thing in these towns. We see lots of crosses and other statues and works of art along the way. Here is Wynette in a creative cutout sculpture we literally passed through. Here is Charlie:
Wynette: For days we have walked by miles and miles of fields planted in this grass. I’d like to know what it is. A crop of some kind, or a winter ground cover? Hoping my Dad or brother Greg or… Continue Reading
But they are not happy about it. Charlie: The Camino Frances, which we are taking, starts in France at St Jean Pied de Port. The first day is very hard going through the Pyrenees. We didn’t want to have such… Continue Reading
Wynette: We have seen very little graffiti except in the highway underpasses the Camino passes through. The graffiti is mostly political. This is where we see the strong feelings some of the Basque people here have about independence from Spain.… Continue Reading
Charlie: We have talked to several people about the economy in Spain. They are all pretty unhappy about how things are going. It has been going down steadily for five years. Angela Merkel in particular is quite unpopular. It is… Continue Reading
We came to this monument our fourth day of walking. If you’ve seen the movie The Way it will look familiar. A fellow pilgrim, Stephan from Germany, asked us if we’d like to have him take our picture. This was… Continue Reading