the start

What a long day - after catching the metro early in the morning to the bus station, we then took 2 buses from Madrid to Pamplona we caught another bus at 6pm to Ronseveilles, then up over the mountains by taxi into France, to a village called St Jean Pied de Port, - this was the first sign of how difficult our next day would be - St Jean even by night seemed like a beautiful village - after getting our passport credential from the passport office we stayed in luxury this first night at a Bed & breakfast with Bernard and Fafa who had only recently bought the place from NZers!! It was just Blair, Jeremy and I in one room - we had a huge bath and toilet to ourselves - so we all enjoyed this last bit of luxury - out for dinner with Barbara who we shared the taxi with - I wanted to just stay a while - as so quaint - and i didn't really feel ready to walk after all that travelling - perhaps another time....