{"id":3365,"date":"2016-03-29T09:24:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2016-03-29T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:26:00","slug":"tourists-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/tourists-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

F<\/span>irst breakfast and Lauds at Coraz\u00f3n Puro. Istv\u00e1n and Barbara drove us to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. We are in France!<\/p>\n

We stopped in at the pilgrims office for our orientation and map. Then to Boutique du Pelerin to pick up our new hiking poles and an Opinel (with a corkscrew, naturally).We walked up to the citadel – the medieval castle was apparently knocked down by the Spanish at some point, and a new bastion was built in the 17th century.<\/p>\n

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We had lunch in a very local Basque place and generally played tourist most of the afternoon. We’re planning on attending Mass at the little medieval church of Notre Dame du Pont later this evening. <\/p>\n

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First breakfast and Lauds at Coraz\u00f3n Puro. Istv\u00e1n and Barbara drove us to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. We are in France! We stopped in at the pilgrims office for our orientation and map. Then to Boutique du Pelerin to pick up our new hiking poles and an Opinel (with a corkscrew, naturally).We walked up to the citadel – the medieval castle was apparently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrim-reports","category-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}