The last post I did ended when I was in Madrid. I stayed at the OXYGEN Hostel which has all these cubicles That you sleep in. Seems like a nice concept, but I didn’t hardly get any sleep that night. And that was following not getting much sleep on the airplane.
I got up the next morning and went to the train station. Made the the trip to Pamplona. Then a bunch of pilgrims got together and figured out we needed to get to the bus station which means taking a city bus We made the bus station where a pilgrim named Joe from Nebraska gave me a mobile hot spot to open my ticket pdf.
So I get on the bus and a gal named Denise sits next to me. It was such a curvy and up and down hike that she started puking coming down the mountain to St Jean. Luckily someone close by had a bag
We gets to St. John Pied de Port and I help get Denise out of the bus. Then I headed to the pilgrims office and there wasn’t much of a line so I decided to wait there to get my Pilgrims credentials. The person at the office told me the municipal Albergue Would be opening soon and I should go there for a bed. I did. It’s a nice place on top of the streets next to the old fortress. I did the normal stuff like go to the store, Explore the fortress and walk around town. Then I went to bed.
The next morning I got up and cook some toast. That was the breakfast they provided. I had some other stuff too. Then I headed out. I went down the street to the spot where the Camino started and took off. This would be the most strenuous day of my hiking career.