Daily Archives: September 7, 2014

The hotel we stayed in for the night, is called La Posada. It was used in the making of the movie “The Way”.

Before dinner we attended the Pilgrims Mass at the local church. Where Janice received a Pilgrims blessing.

Then to dinner with a group of Pilgrims, one of the guys on our table had started walking his Camino in Belgium.

We had very heavy storm during the night. It came in through the roof in the room. Other parts of Spain suffered very heavy flooding and storm damage.

The hotel “La Posada”

The church at Roncevalles

St James

Sunday – we started out early this morning, about 7:45am it was a clear beautiful morning. We continued our walk up and over the Pyrenees. Then down the other side to Roncesvalles, and walking down was as hard as walking up. It was very steep. We stopped about half way at a van selling fruit, drinks, etc which appeared to run by some local shepherds. They herd goats, cows and horses, there are no fences and the animals are free to roam wherever they like.  It was not as hot today, nor as humid so the walking was very pleasant.

Sunrise Day 2 over the French Pyrenees

A map of today’s walk from Orrison to Roncesvalles. All up about 17.7km

Cows, this time behind a fence. Further up the mountain they roamed free.

Goats roaming free

Horses roaming free.

An emergency shelter on the Pyrenees crossing.

The French Spanish border in Basque Country.

A water fountain spouting water straight of a spring on the mountain.

The walk down hill to Roncesvalles was very steep and went through some very nice forests