This trip is a Camino thru the Northern Coast of Spain, way more strenuous than the Camino Frances, but it promises to be spectacular in views of the Ocean and scenery.
I will be posting with two audiences in mind....
Friends and family and other pilgrims who have walked this and might enjoy reliving it and future Norte pilgrims who might have questions as to where to stay etc...
This Camino is about two weeks before the season start of the typical Camino. Easter is later this year and that is why. I will get to some towns and the pilgrim places to stay, auberges, might not be open for the season yet. I also might be walking most of my trip alone....a big difference than the Frances where daily I might have run into a 100 pilgrims, many who I would know by name.
The Frances, which I did eighteen months ago in 44 days ( with rest days built in and an ending on the coast) is a trail that has been walked for over a thousand years and has a pilgrim infrastructure that is strong, you are recognized and noticed as a pilgrim almost everywhere you go....not so on the Norte from what I have been led to believe.
I will depart my home for a 3:00pm flight to NYC...then to Paris, where a bus will take me to the other Paris airport where I will fly out to Southern France. There I will catch another bus and be dropped off at the border of France and Spain. I will start in France, in a town called Hendaye.
I leave the States March 26th and will start walking March 28!
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