Author: charlie

Post by Wynette: The non-ocean views are nice as well. The pilgrim we met from Ireland said this reminds him of home.

Elorriaga. You can see how small it is. We had coffee and oranges at Toli Aloi, a small bar. Very good coffee. We had two cups each. Basque is a very different language, not related to anything, no cognates. This was the view from our table.

Post by Wynette: When we start to talk to someone who we are pretty sure isn’t Spanish, the tendency is to greet them in English but I hated to just assume they spoke English. (Although nearly everyone does. The Latvian woman we met spoke fluent English.) Today I decided to ask before launching into conversation with the men above: Do you speak English? The answer was, with a laugh from the man on the left, I am English. He was from Cornwall which, he said, is a lot like what we are walking through right now. (The man on the right was German and he spoke fluent English as well.)

Even high on the mouse the salt water takes its toll.

Post by Wynette: We walked an easy 6.3 miles today and are staying in small town of Getaria (photo above) tonight. Beautiful sunny day, but ocean breezes kept us cool. We only met two other pilgrims today. They were from Germany. We saw two others but just waved at them as they passed us.

Having coffee on the beach in Zarautz.

in Zarautz.

Reports that Wynette and Charlie are on a beach vacation and not an austere and challenging pilgrimage are FAKE NEWS.