buencamino515 – St. Jean to Santiago

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• Day Five: Puente la Reina to Estella – buencamino515

  Beautiful day 20c and sunny for a 6-hour 22.5km walk. Still in Navarre but vineyards starting to show up. Soil rich, flowers exploding between expanses of wheat. Basque region (wealthy, productive) re...

• Day Four: Pamplona to Puente la Reina  – buencamino515

  Leaving Hemingway's Pamplona - vibrant, intoxicating, and after the peace of the Camino - well, noisy! Where are you all going? So fast! Slow down! Peace! Camino runs through historic center, a single...

• Day Two: Roncevalles to Zubiri – buencamino515

  Beautiful 6.5 hour walk.     Beautiful until after 4-5 hours and everything just hurts. Stop every half hour to take off shoes. Put back on. Repeat. Hiking ups and downs with 25 lbs is not like walkin...

• Days 6-7: Estella to Los Arcos to Viana – buencamino515

  Early takeoff from Estella we meet a wine fountain 2km outside town.   

• Day 24. Astorga to Rabanal – buencamino515

  I go to local Roman Museum and find that Astorga's history goes back 200,000 years and see artifacts from Way Back BC. Whew. Anyway, after the Romans finish with their Punic Wars, they figure they can...

• Day One: St Jean Pied de Port to Roncevalles – buencamino515

  There is no good way out of the storm that's predicted for later today. Take the 8 hour road walk, skip the stage and go directly to Roncevalles, beat the storm by starting out super early, wait and e...