Holy frijole its HOT! Thankfully, I sit in a cool room at the lovely hotel in Burgette, where they have kindly allowed me to use the internet. Jonathon is back at the Casa Rural (like a B&B without the Breakfast) where we are staying tonight, napping, and it is a well deserved nap, I must say. The bed in a private room is also well deserved as neither of slept much last night in St Jean, each apparently due to the other snoring. Try and figure that one out...
We left St Jean Pied du Port this morning about 7:20 am and spent the next 6 hours climbing about 1000 metres over the Pyrennes in very warm temperatures. Jonathon was a real trooper. Despite a crampy leg, excessive perspiration and a pesky auntie, who kept checking to see how he was doing, he wanted to carry on to our preferred destination - Burgette when we could have given up 5 km earlier in Ronscesvalles. We both survived the ordeal without blisters, heat exhaustion or any real grumpiness, which is so easy to have in high temperatures. How hot was it? Well, I´m not sure, but I would guess that it was at least 34 degrees today.
The camino is busy this year - St Jean was crawling with backpackers and we must have passed over 100 people today en route to Burgette. I hope we can avoid large crowds over the next few day as it takes away from the experience when you are queing on the trail! Our destination tomorrow is still up in the air - it depends primarily on two things: weather and body aches. But all being well, we will shoot for Villava, which is about 30 km down the track. This means an early start so we can avoid the worst heat of the day, as well as the crowds of peregrinos.
I have some photos from the day and if I can sneak back in here later, I will try and upload a few for your viewing pleasure. Miranda
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So, is Jonathon regretting his decision to not bother bringing the earplugs?
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