Good morning!
It's our third day of Camino del Norte.
Our plan for today is to cross French- Spanish border and then to find an official route
of Camino del Norte because it starts in village Irun.
And probably we'll find a church and buy a pilgrim passsport.
It's not very important for us but it's kind of interesting how it looks like and maybe
it will be useful in the future who knows.
So we're going to do that.
Also we want to find some shop to buy me a T-shirt because we only bring one for me and
it's not enough.
So we'll do that as well.
For the first time we see big long ocean waves, it's incredible.
We are speechless of this beauty and it should be a great surfing spot as well.
The sand is so soft.
We forgot to tell you during the
night we heard owl.
A lot, probably it was communicating with the others and overall this place is full
of birds and animals, so we heard a lot of them singing, it was so nice.
Now on the horizon we start to see some mountains and the path will go there so finally the
true Camino will start, the true hard Camino.
It's a question how do they get to this boats, they are very little.
They get on another boat to get to these, because it's like in the middle of the water
or just swimming.
Now we have to go around this huge bay of water but there is a ferry that crosses the
border from France to Spain so maybe there is an option to take because there is a huge round.
Actually you lose like 3 kms or so.
It seems like in every hike that we do, we have to cross the border.
Cross border fans that's who we are.
That's where the official Camino starts, we're at the very start of it.
That's the caos of traffic in Irun because of the border.
Got the credentials with our first stamp, looks very fancy.
Bought some fruit, grapes, plums, yougurts, we'll have a picnic now.
While we are chilling out here in the park, we are discussing just our impressions from
the city Irun, our first Spanish city.
It's not bad, but it's a big city, we thought that it would be smaller.
But in terms of language you can hear the Basque language here definetely.
But lots of the people are speaking Spanish which is an international language.
And if you speak Spanish you won't have problems here.
When we were in the church we saw a lot of paper statistics, it means there are a lot
of pilgrims on the way.
And it's quite popular as well as the French Way.
We are just starting to get out of the city which is pretty big.
We lost lots of time here, in the city you lose the track of time.
But we did lots of things like visiting the bank cause we had the problem with the bank
account, printed some documents, receiving credential and stuff.
So now we can go quietly all the way as long as we need to.
And we still have 5 hours of a day to walk.
Now we started to see lots of indicators of the Camino.
But they actually are a bit confusing, and on the crossroads you don't find any and then
out of nowhere there is a direction.
So we prefer to download the GPS track of official Camino and we prefer to have the
indicators to walk through cause then we're confused and we're losing lots of time.
So we have a great respect for people who are not using GPS and are able to walk like
this but it's not for us.
All of a sudden I started laming on the right leg cause my knee started to hurt.
That's my old trauma from childhood, sometimes it starts to hurt.
And now it's the wrongest time because we still have 9 kms left and I don't know if
I am able to do that in this moment.
We decided to skip the part of the Camino, now we are going away from it.
We decided to do that for the sake of the beautiful views of the ocean cause that is
what we are here for, for the stunning views.
We want to walk at the edge of the ocean.
By accident we are out on the GR route and from our experience the GR routes are the
hardest ones going through the mountains and the hardest paths.
But probably the most beautiful so we are going to it.
Chocolate is always great source of energy which we really need now.
Now we've got the dilemma whether we should go all the way to San Sebastian to the outskirts
of it to our camping site, because there is no other campsite until the city of San Sebastian.
Or whether we should be stealth camping here at the edge of the ocean.
But probably we'll go with the second one because we're running out of time it's already
like 5.30 pm, the daytime is almost over.
Probably all we'll do now is to find the campground for us.
Even though there are signs of the tent crossed so it's prohibited here but we have no other
option to opt for.
For the night it's going to be ok.
They are so annoyed by the flies.
Geology of these places is very interesting, haven't seen this before.
It's sandy ground with the rocks and the rocks are with huge pores.
We're loaded with lots of food and water right now so this path is kind of hard.
Very abrupt cliff.
What is this creature, is it a snake, lizard of kind of worm.
Do you know?
We found the spring, it's good for the cooking water and maybe we'll have kind of improvized shower.
Because we're very sweaty.
Is it good?
Perfect.
Feels so much more fresh after taking a shower in the spring.
It was a new experience for us.
It actually feels so good.
But now we have to find the stealth camping spot and it's very hard here because of the
unevenness of the ground.
There's no flat surface and lots of bushes and hard strong grass, not sure where we'll
stop today.
As you can see here this is the ground that we've got, all full of bushes and needly plants.
So this is really hard to find the spot.
I think we found the spot for today's night, there is a slope but not as much as in the
other places.
And not on the road, this is a dirt road but we are afraid that maybe some cars will come
at night and we don't want that to happen.
So it was definetely hard but beautiful day.
We spent lots of time on the pavement, in the city today.
Lost a lot of time as I said already.
But the rest of the day we chose to spend at the oceanside it was the best decision
ever, that's what we are here for, to capture all of this beauty.
To see all of this eternity of the ocean, that is indescribable, so great.
But definetely with this route that goes along the ocean with its ups and downs, lots of rounds.
And it's more distance, more kms.
So probably tomorrow we'll be going back to the official Camino del Norte.
Because we want to get to San Sebastian ideally till the midday but we'll see how it goes.
Maybe we'll get there till the afternoon.
Until tomorrow!
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