{"id":51798,"date":"2013-03-15T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/snow-2\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T01:05:30","slug":"snow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/snow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1082\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The photo here was taken by a pilgrim yesterday at Roncesvalles. The passes are choked with snow, and at this point people have to walk on the highway to get from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Roncesvalles.<\/p>\n

And it’s taking them two days.<\/p>\n

I won’t have that kind of time, and I’m leaving in just over two weeks. Even assuming the snow is done by then, the locals are saying it’s going to be a morass of mud.<\/p>\n

I’m seriously thinking of bagging the first trans-Pyrenee day and starting in Roncesvalles instead.<\/p>\n

This has the added advantage of some level of certainty. I’ve got a bus ticket from Madrid to Pamplona, and there is a regular and frequent bus from Pamplona to Roncesvalles. Getting to Saint-Jean would require a taxi-share with fellow pilgrims, which is sort of catch as catch can.<\/p>\n

We shall see what the situation is when I arrive.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, later this afternoon Francine and I are heading over to Saint James Cathedral<\/a> in Seattle to get our Credentials stamped. Photos later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photo here was taken by a pilgrim yesterday at Roncesvalles. The passes are choked with snow, and at this point people have to walk on the highway to get from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Roncesvalles. And it’s taking them two days. I won’t have that kind of time, and I’m leaving in just over two weeks. Even assuming the snow is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-dts","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55999,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/roncesvalles\/","url_meta":{"origin":51798,"position":0},"title":"Roncesvalles","author":"Thom","date":"01 April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"No photos yet, sorry. 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