Camino day 2

This morning we took a train from Bayonne to St Jean Pied de Port. It was a very nice to see the area. There is a lot of corn being grown. Every building has a red tile roof and white plaster walls. It all looks very nice.

Here are the my observations and things we did today. 

We got our pilgrim passport. It has been stamped twice now. 

We bought local cheese from a farmers market. It was very good. 

nice stained glass in old church. 

We toured a very old church. It is pretty amazing how people these so long ago and make then look so good. 

We walked around the fort that encompasses the inner city. Again, what an amazing structure. It was built to keep Spain from invading France through the Pyrenees. 

View of St Jean Pied de Port

Pilgrim art. 

Camino 2023

Bayonne France 

my first passport stamp 

on one of the flights.

September 13 day 2. We start our journey with a twist. The airlines decided to push our flight to Paris back by three hours. If this was our final destination, all would have been good. We still had a connecting flight and bus ride to our hotel. Luckily they were able to get us earlier flight allowing us to make all the connections. This ment that once I got off the phone with them, it was time to go to the airport. I suppose this is not the best way to start a 500 mile walk halfway around the world. 

What the above paragraph comes down to is 39 hours to ride three airplanes. Seattle to Minneapolis to Paris France to Biarritz France .Then we ride a bus to Bayonne where we had a hotel room waiting. 

Some things I abserved after all that is: 

France is layed back compared to Seattle. There are no visible homeless people here. 

Everyone seamed to have purpose while out and about. 

Bayonne is built up. There is a lot of farm land surrounding the city. Part of it is very old. 

France seams to be a multi cultural country. 

The prices on food are more reasonable than Seattle.