Day 51 – Toulouse France
Traveling on a budget exposes the tourist to unique experiences. At 3:00am I woke up and began to consider my options for today. Recent experience has taught me that waiting to the last minute and...
Category: Camino
Day 50 – Irun (Last day in Spain)
As I walked off of the Camino trail onto the city streets of Irun, the foremost thought on my mind was a cold Coca Cola with ice and lemon slices. I stopped into my first opportunity...
Day 49 – Pasai Donibane
I walked into Pasai around 1:00pm and decided to not press for Irun today. It was a fairly strenuous 7.6km already and the temps were only going to rise for the rest of the afternoon....
Day 48 – San Sebastián (3/3)
Today’s task list included: (Always exercising my inner project manager) Checkout of 60€/day Txingurri pension in Astigarraga Check in to 35€/day hostel in San Sebastián Research the Camino from San Sebastián to Irun....
Day 47 – San Sebastián (2 of 3)
First, I need to retract yesterday’s inaccurate characterization of San Sebastián. It is not like Miami and it is not built particularly for tourism. San Sebastián was a thriving international commercial seaport long before Ponce de...
Day 46 – San Sebastián (1 of 3…)
San Sebastián is like Miami FL, built for tourists. (That’s not exactly true. More on this tomorrow) San Sebastián wasn’t my first choice but when I gave up trying to find the Camino track into Bilbao,...
Day 45 – Bilbao (3 of 3)
Todays wine tour plan fell thru so I took in the Balboa Museum of Fine Arts instead. This turned out to be a great alternative. It included a special collection of el Greco and other 16th...
