Ok - its Thursday. In Tuesday I travelled from Madrid to Pamplona by train. What a lovely ride. Spent the night in Pamplona - no bulls running around the streets :-(  Then, yesterday morning I arrived at the bus station at 7:30 to take a bus to Roncevalles, only to find out that there is only 1 bus a day, at 6pm. Fortunately there was another peregrino also wanting to get through, a very nice Spanish guy called Jose. We chatted and decided to try and get another to share a taxi with us, but we then met a German man called Heinz who had walked to Pamplona from Germany and was catching the train to San Sebastian and then going on to Bayonne in France. We ended up travelling with him, picking up a mad Australian along the way called Cressie. We then picked up another Spanish lady who lives in Switzerland and we eventually arrived in St Jean Pied-de-Port at 4pm.

This morning, after breakfast (€8 for bed and breakfast in the albergue) we all set out for Roncevalles, back in Spain. It was a wet, misty, miserable 26kms over the Pyrennes. We didn´t see a damned thing because of the mist and rain.

I met up with a nice guy called Ian from Stoke on Trent and the 2 of us arrived in Roncevalles at 4pm.

After a nice hot shower we went and had a couple of beers in the bar.
At 7pm we had the Pilgrim´s dinner - potato soup. trout and chips, yoghurt and a bottle of wine, all for €9.
At European prices this is good. just don´t convert to Rands.

The refugio here in Roncevalles is really nice, recently renovated and very sparkling and new.
My clothes from today are in the dryer so I will have nice dry clothes to wear tomorrow when I will walk only 20km to Zubiri.