Stage 2 - From Roncesvalles to Larrasoana
![]() Another early start |
![]() Mist on the meadows |
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![]() Roncesvalles logging centre |
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![]() 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 |
![]() Waymark |
![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() Waymark at junction of tracks |
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![]() Way mark |
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![]() New roundabout and ancient ford (alas with no stepping stones) |
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![]() This section of the camino is a nicely paved track |
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![]() 3-way fork with the camino in the middle |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() The author feeling that over 20 deg C is too hot for walking! |
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![]() 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 |
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![]() Informal way mark |
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![]() Medieval bridge at Zubari (where there is a fountain in the village) |
![]() A rather tiresome section circumnaviagting a huge cement works |
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![]() 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 countour |
![]() 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 |