St. Jean to Roncesvalles

WE MADE IT!! Well we made it past the first day of walking. We covered 25 km over the Pyernees. The views were absolutely everything we could hope for and more. We hiked up hill for about 7 hours. Let us tell you about our first night at the pligram hostle. Because of a huge language barrier between our landlady and ourselves it was quite difficult to communicate. She only spoke French and lets just say that Spanish doesn´t sound a whole lot like French. Thankfully we met some amazing friends who roomed next to us. They are all from Ireland and one man named Martin knows how to speak French so he was doing quite a bit of the translating for us. The landlady was a bit pushy as we would call it in the states. We are actually glad we couldn´t really understand what she was saying. The house was 15 minutes late to breakfast this morning and she was quite offended. She rushed us out of there as soon as we finished our bread, butter and jam. Oh yes and that oh so awesome Cafe con Leche and Tea.

After hiking for about 4 hours we stopped to eat lunch. We bought a cured ham sandwich (we don´t know how to spell pruchutto) and some fruit. The views were amazing. We can´t stop talking about them: vinyards, sheep and their sheperards, green mountains, rivers and so much more. We can´t post pictures on this computer, but we will when we can.



The trail is really well marked. We didn´t even need to use our map today. The people are very friendly and helpful. I couldn´t imagine a more enjoyable safe environment to walk across a country.