St Jean Pied de port to Roncevaux Day 1

St Jean Pied de port to Roncevaux took us just over 7 hours not including breaks, this is probably the hardest climb of the camino and a bit of training is needed for this, The trail tips along nicely with a few small hill nothing to worry about their, when you leave France and enter spain its a gradual incline from here ,mostly by road, this can get a bit monotonous so they then bring you off road 2 or three times through forests and down to the rivers which is lovely until you have to hike back up to the road, if your not eager for this you can still stay on the road and reach the same destination.you last stop for provisions is VALCARLOS and you will need them for the last 4..5k its all up hill for here, we did this at the end of march 2024 and it was very slippery and muddy, hopefully 🤞 its a lot dryer for you hopes this helps, you should reach a height of roughly 1050 meters bien Camino.

[@mariannejacot1668]

i am really chaffed to follow irish people on the camino, ireland is waking up thank god, so are the germans too. buen camino. i was never in ireland, know england well because my daughter lived in london and been to edinburgh, canterbury, york, winchester, salisbury, leicester - david ickes town - and others.

[@annmatthews8222]

Well done Paul. Ye certainly had some trek there but the scenery looked magnificent and you captured it really well 👍

[@walkthewalkswithpaul8096]

Thanks anne just bought a drone was trying it out, worked well so far.scenery was fantastic just wish we had more sun.😁😆🤣🤣

[@666yiska]

Amazing guys ! Great work

[@clientbounty]

Brilliant Paul!! Wow that looked tough alright! Stunning landscape! Fair play!!

[@walkthewalkswithpaul8096]

Thanks dave trying to add a different demention to the videos, actually that climb was higher than carrauntoohil which is the highest mountain in ireland.😎