I think that what folks are getting at is trying to better understand your reasoning for such a disjointed walk. Why a bit at the beginning of the CF and a bit at the end? Some excellent ideas have been offered as to why one might want to walk...
There is not such a thing as 'the complete camino'. There are many, many different camino's (Camino Primitivo, Camino del Norte, Camino Invierno, Camino Baztan, Camino de Madrid, Via de la Plata, Camino Portugues and many more) and everybody can...
There is a regular local bus from Biarritz airport to Bayonne railway station. The Express Bourricot shuttle can be expensive (€ 130) if there are no other passengers! Train fom Bayonne to SJPdP is cheap (approx. € 12).
www.rome2rio.com
In short :
1) metro to Gare Montparnasse (ticket from vending machine in metro station)
2) from there TGV (fast train) to Bayonne. Book ticket in advance...
I'll venture to suggest that it's hard going working in ANY albergue as I'm sure that being a newbie or not may have nothing to do with what kind of person the "pilgrim" is.
And if that person is a 🍑🤕 or 🐴🍑... well...
Msr. Jaques is OK, Mme Carole has her moments but spending pretty much a whole day there and looking at the scope of the whole operation I could see how one can get a tad 'snippy'. Too many different people pass by some with absolutely no...
In that period I would not relay on a waitinglist. It is peakseason, 400 pilgrims per day are looking for a bed and there are not much alternatives in the 'bottleneck' between SJPdP and Pamplona. I would make reservations in advance to be sure of...
Auberge Borda is also fully booked for the whole month of September.
At the moment it is still possible to make reservations in Roncesvalles www.alberguederoncesvalles.com.
The first two weeks of September are the busiest weeks of the year...
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