4/13, Orio to Zumaia
7.1 miles. We skipped some in the middle due to the warm weather. Also probably walked about 2 miles around Zumaia.
View DetailsOur place high in Zumaia
We had trouble finding a place to stay here in Zumaia today. We didn’t realize when we were trying to make the reservation that there is a big festival in the town this weekend. But we did find a place to stay in kind of a rooming house way up at the top of the
4/13 WynChar Diary
Z-towns visited: 2 (Zarautz and Zumaia, a big Z-day for us)Z-town festivals stumbled upon by chance: 1Surf towns visited: 1Proud Basque taxi drivers: 1American pilgrims talked to: 3Fish dishes: 1 (sea bass)Outdoor elevators ridden: 1Alcohol units: 0 (no sidra today)Rectilinear churches encountered: 1Places named after me: 1 Zarautz is the main surfing town along this
4/12, San Sebastian to Orio
Today we walked 8.0 miles in 5:00 hours, moving time 3:33. That’s Charlie’s moving time. He walks a little faster than Wynette and periodically stops to wait for her. The Wikiloc app is really good at detecting motion and pauses. Elevation gain of 974 feet and loss of 1411 feet (we started high)
Braille
IPA braille encodes the International Phonetic Alphabet so the braille for the same word is different in different languages, note the zones in Spanish, French and Basque. The surprised me when I saw it because I thought of braille as a language. I was also surprised that “/“ was rendered as a single dot. I
4/12 WynChar Diary
Hotel breakfasts days in a row: 3 (last one for a while)Different surfaces walked on: at least 6High temperature: 74 (It was hot, and tomorrow it will be 76)The Camino aka Saint James will provide moments: 2 (a fountain with cool water just as we were running out and a lovely cool breeze for the
Signage
GR routes (Grande Randonnée) are a network of long-distance hiking trail mostly in France, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands. Many Caminos follow GRs. GR-121 goes along Northern Spain and follows the Norte or provides alternative routes, usually closer to the ocean. Caminos go in only one direction. It is hard to go backwards because you
View DetailsCamino Surfaces
One of the thing we like about walking the Camino is that is changes constantly. Here are some of the surfaces we walked on today. This one is nice to walk on dry but a mess after a rain. It is the site of Charlie’s 2018 barbed wire incident. This dirt but really mostly rocky