After a very long traveling day, we arrived in St Jean Pied de Port,France from Madrid. We took a 6 hour train at 8:00am then a 2 hour bus trip (plus layovers) to get here at 8:30 pm. Everyone on the bus were pilgrims for the Camino. Apparently in France you are allowed to make reservations in private hostels, but we never got that memo. So I followed some Brits , New Zealanders, Dutch and French pilgrims to their hostel. Few had reservations but the other 6 of us did not. The lady gave us a room with 6 beds set up as 3 bunks. All girls except for Sam. 32€ but included breakfast. The room reminds me of our college dorm room at MSU without the keggers, frisbee s and pizza delivery guys being mugged in the Hallway. Lights out at 10:00..."sleep in the street after that"
Place is clean. Gareth gave me advice to be the first in the showed or wear double flip-flops cuz of yucky floors. Shower was nice...being your own soap
We have our official passports to start out trip tomorrow. Breakfast at 6:30-7;40.am. --Comes with room. Doors lock at 7:45am and everybody Has their holy pilgrim butt thrown out on the Camino. God bless you now start walking all day.
Oh. I went down to the cranky lady "Frenchy" running the front desk --I think she went to Prom with Hitler. I asked for a little holy wine to calm my nerves after my busy stressful day. It was only 9:40pm. I would buy her a round since we came all the was from the The good il' USA. She laughed outloud like the wizard of OZ cast was on site. Waved me back to bed and said "we have no wine".
Of Course, I had to pick the only dry hostel in northern France ! "Lights out...10:00pm".
Of Course, I had to pick the only dry hostel in northern France ! "Lights out...10:00pm".
Here is our room and bathroom. Pretty nice really. I have my bedbug shield on.
Yikes Mary! Bedbugs? I didn't know you had to worry about those..or maybe you were just kidding. Hopefully you will get a good nights sleep. Hey, will Sam be at risk with all those women in the room?Haha. Too bad about the wine, smuggle some in next time, I HOPE you brought a wine key with you.
ReplyDeleteBedbugs are a risk so we have sleeping bags sprayed with permethrin. I spoke with some Canadians at breakfast who have done the Camino 8 times--never had a problem but are still careful.
DeleteHave a good trip! Look forward to more photos
ReplyDeleteHi Mary, my mom shared your blog link with me, hope you don't mind if I follow along too. Hope your first day on the trail is a good one! Let us know if we should send a donkey with a few casks of wine in after you...
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ellie. We left France and Spain had lots of wine! Thanks for following. Mary
Delete"I think she went to prom with Hitler" might be the greatest line I have ever read in my history of reading. We are so jealous of this awesome adventure, Mary. GO! GO! GO! We love you!
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