Slight change in route

So, even though in the past I've been from Roncesvalles (in the Pyrenees) to Burgos in northern Spain and therefore wanted to take up from where I left off 10 years ago plans change ........

This time around I plan to start from Irun in the Basque country and still in the Pyrenees mountains at the southwest corner where Spain and France meet and follow the cliffs and coastal ways all the way to Santiago De Compostela.

This is supposed to be a much more rugged, scenic route and especially deserted during winter times. Lots of fodder for thinking and contemplation of my sins methinks ;)

see new route in picture. Just for the record - this was supposedly the route taken by the returning crusaders from Palestine waaaaaay back when. It enabled them to avoid the Moors who held power in the central regions of Spain