산티아고 가는 길(프랑세스)#2일차

2 - From Roncesvalles to Larrasoaña

 

Another early start	Mist on the meadows
	Roncesvalles logging centre
	Burguete/ Auritz (All the villages here have a Spanish name and a Basque name)
A house with an ancient coat of arms	Ancient ford with modern bridge
Way mark	Ford with stepping stones
Ford with bridge (and two other fords fairly soon after)	Cross roads with log felling which has removed the way marks but it is fairly obviously straight on
	Espinal/Aurizberri
The supermarket at the end of the village is the first place one can buy an omelette for breakfast	Backtrack to where the camino turns left out of the village
	Waymark at junction of tracks
Way mark	Way mark
	New roundabout and ancient ford (alas with no stepping stones)
	This section of the camino is a nicely paved track
3-way fork with the camino in the middle
	The camino with 2 other pilgrims. one meets and re-meets people, but there is plenty of space to walk alone if you want to.
Viskarret/ Biskarreta
The author feeling that over 20 deg C is too hot for walking!
	Mobile phone masts - the trappings of civilisation are never far away
... and a picnic area at the Col de Erro where the camino crosses a main highway	Logging chewed up 50 metres of the camino
This section is said to be "almost impassable" in wet weather	Derelict house on the camino
	Informal way mark
	Medieval bridge at Zubari (where there is a fountain in the village)
A rather tiresome section circumnavigating a huge cement works
	If you see this, you have missed the turning
which actually goes down these steps by the telegraph pole a little further back	and then goes across and besides some waste heaps
The road then gets better and climbs up to a farmhouse	I mistakenly thought the village in the valley was Larrasoana and headed down past this church - a mistake, I had missed the marker for the camino which keeps on the same contour
You will only see this notice if you miss the turning too and arrive by the main road - just as well since the figure in our book was 721 km to go!	The refugio here is run by D. Santiago Zubiri Elizalde who has done the pilgrimage twice himself.
This refugio has superior facilities	including real hot water