{"id":45,"date":"2012-05-09T23:35:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T06:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2023-04-05T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:08:00","slug":"route-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/route-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Route &#8211; Camino Franc\u00e9s 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">B<\/span>eginning in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port<\/a> on the French side of the Pyrenees, through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roncesvalles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roncesvalles<\/a> on the Spanish side and then another 780km on to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santiago_de_Compostela\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santiago de Compostela<\/a> through the major cities of Pamplona, Logro\u00f1o, Burgos and Le\u00f3n, the &#8220;French Way&#8221; (Camino Franc\u00e9s) is the most popular, and longest, route of the Camino de Santiago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CaminoMapOSB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CaminoMapOSB-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CaminoMapOSB\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CaminoMapOSB-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CaminoMapOSB-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CaminoMapOSB.jpg 1584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started from Roncesvalles, and it took me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">31 days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I flew in and out of Madrid, took a five-hour bus ride to Pamplona, then a terrifying taxi to Roncesvalles. Then a lot of walking. <\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_859\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/route\/arms_of_santiago_de_compostela\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-859\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-859\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Arms_of_Santiago_de_Compostela-220x300.png\" alt=\"Arms of Santiago de Compostela\" width=\"180\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Arms_of_Santiago_de_Compostela-220x300.png 220w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Arms_of_Santiago_de_Compostela.png 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arms of the City of Santiago de Compostela<\/p><\/div>On day 18, I met my lovely bride Francine in Le\u00f3n, and we walked the last two weeks together.<\/p>\n<p>From Santiago, it was a bone-jarringly horrible, horrible bus ride back to Madrid and then a flight home.<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I think, there will planes and trains rather than buses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side of the Pyrenees, through Roncesvalles on the Spanish side and then another 780km on to Santiago de Compostela through the major cities of Pamplona, Logro\u00f1o, Burgos and Le\u00f3n, the &#8220;French Way&#8221; (Camino Franc\u00e9s) is the most popular, and longest, route of the Camino de Santiago. I started from Roncesvalles, and it took me [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13949,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}