Today was a very long travel day. I woke up in my nice warm bed at 5 o’clock in the morning the morning. My good friend Martin took me to the airport and I was on my way to Spain shortly after 9 AM. The 1st stop was Seattle where I had to quickly transfer to a much larger plane to take me to Paris, France. This this was over a 9 hour flight and I was not looking forward to it. However, I found it was not that bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As soon as we left Seattle I started to read a travel narrative on The Camino del Norte -“The Camino Norte: An August Adventure” by Len Stregles – a very good book and I and I enjoyed reading it. I plan to refer to it each day each day to make sure I don’t miss anything of interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Flight into Charles de Gaulle airport went well but walking through Charles de Gaulle airport was an adventure. I climbed stairs, I took escalator’s, I took moving walkways, I took a train, I took a bus, and when I finally got to the gate, I had to walk out onto the tarmac and up the stairs to the plane. Yes, and adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The flight to Bilbao was short and I tried to get some sleep but could not. The Bilbao airport is smaller than most airports I have been in lately and people were very helpful as to how I should get to a Irun. At the luggage area I saw a Tourist Booth and the nice English person to check at the Pesa Bus booth just down the way. There a nice English speaking lady told that a bus to San Sebastian will be outside the baggage area and in 10 short minutes. From there I can take a regional train to my Irun. Arriving in Irun, I decided to walk to my hotel as was only a couple kilometers. Yes, I got lost or more accurately I got off route. But folks were very helpful in pointing me in the right direction and soon I was standing in front of my hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now about the hotel room. It is small. The card key to the door is also needed to turn on the lights in the room. There is a slider for the card and once inserted you can turn on the lights. If. If you remove the card, the lights turn off. Which, is a great way to save electricity when you leave the room. In addition, the act of a small. It is not full size but about half the length of what the bathrooms back home are. It’s more of a shower stall than a bathtub. But you can fill it and take a bath with your knees in your face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tomorrow will be a preparation day before I begin walking the Camino. I am really looking forward to this and I’m sure it will be a fun adventure. In addition, I hope to learn a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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