산티아고 가는 길(프랑세스)#1일차

1 - From St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France to Roncesvalles in Spain

 

View from the train from Bayonne	St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port
In July 2003, two Dutch pilgrims, Huberta and Arno, opened a new refugio called "L'Esprit du Chemin" just opposite the pilgrim's office.	Roofscape
The town gate	The dormitory in the Refugio
Dawn start	Looking back at St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port
Farmhouse	Huntto (the last accommodation before Roncesvalles)
Way mark	The "table d'orientation" telling you the names of everything you can see and showing the route of the original camino to the east
Way mark
Horse country	Another backward look
Virgen d'Orisson
	Lunch stop - note the cross which marks where the Camino forks right on a grassy track
The Camino goes between the nearby small hill, and in front of the large hill beyond	....in fact, here
This old barbed wire fence is the frontier between France and Spain	Way mark
The last fountain in France	The frontier crossing at last
The author exhausted	Tony, a fellow pilgrim from England, on the first day of walking all the way through to Compostela
The stone to mark your entry to Navarre
	The last of the winter snow
	The first long view of Spain
The start of the steep descent through the woods to Roncesvalles
In these woods you can really feel the echoes of centuries of pilgrims on the same road	(There is an alternative route on a by-road which passes the stone where Roland broke his sword according to legend
Roncesvalles at last	The cloisters
	View from the dormitory window