Our hostess shooed us out of our accommodation in St Jean Pied de Port at about 8:30 on Sunday morning. Since there were no shops open and, let's face it, shopping was out of the question anyway, we headed out the Citadelle gate and up the hill toward Orisson. I don't know if it was beginning of the trail excitement or the exuberance of remaining jet lag, but we arrived at Orrison, 8km up the pass where we had a reservation to stay the night, at an embarrassingly early 10:30AM! The place was packed with pilgrims getting coffee, potato tortilla, sandwiches for the road, and basque almond cake (excellent stuff).
We sat and chatted with many different folks until we were shown our room. Six of us shared three double bunks. We set up sleeping bags, got next day clothes out and commenced cleaning ourselves and our clothes. All took a nap before dinner at 6:30. Dinner was lentil soup,
Coc au vin, bread, wine and the aforementioned delicious basque cake. We met folks from England, Brazil, Japan, Canada and India. It was a good first day. Lights out at 9:30.
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you both look wonderful and seems that the preparation has you in good form! you both look so happy!! Thank you for all the postings!!!! I have a day off today. Tim and I went to the drag races over the weekend to see a friend race.... was certainly an experience. Now, we're awaiting 3 storm systems to converge over North TX with predicted threats.....
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