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Best travel reports from Navarre

Tag 4 - Pamplona at Puente la Reina

I'm the last one to get up again 😅 After breakfast, Jutta and Christoph from Haus Paderborn bid me a very warm farewell. I can only recommend staying overnight there in...

Through the desert

Good morning! What can a day become that starts with having to collect 328 grams of oat flakes from the depths of the minicamper because the bag was improperly left...

Tag 5 - Puente la Reina nach Estella

It somehow becomes a habit that I am the last to get up and leave the hostel. After 300m I reach a bakery where I have breakfast. Then I cross the Queen's Bridge, which was...

3. Tag - Larrasoaña to Pamplona

First of all, a quick thank you for the many positive feedback on the blog, which has apparently already become a daily evening read for some 🙏🙏🙏 Please excuse me for not...

Pamplona to Estella, Day 24

Thursday, 10.8.2023, Day 24Today we left Pamplona, Wohlgemuth, after a rest day and what should have been an easier stage ahead of us. We started late, at 9:30 am, which brought...

About the Pyrenees, from Elizondo to Pamplona. Day 22

Tuesday, 8/8/2023, Day 22Today we started our 4th week, now over 1500 km away from Cologne, about 900 km left to Cadiz. Since Bayonne, we have cycled 120 km in 2 days over the...

flown, landed, driven from Pamplona to Estella

After our flight was rescheduled from noon to evening and we also took off late... we arrived in Madrid. Fortunately, the next flight from Madrid to Pamplona had a later...

Ágora Hostel in Estella

So this accommodation definitely deserves its own entry. Found the accommodation on booking.com. It is rated 9.5 there and that's why I booked there. It is located in the center...

3rd stage part 2 to Estella

Well, finally arrived. My watch somehow deleted the run, but now I have almost 60,000 steps and until shortly before the end it was almost 45km. It was definitely tiring today,...

Estella and a delicious burger

When I arrived I chilled in the hostel as it was also raining heavily. And after the shower, I had no desire to leave the comfortable bed with a real cloth sheet. I went down to...

Pamplona - October 28th

In the morning it is cool again and cloudy. We consider whether to stay another day or move on. We decide to continue. We drive through endless expanses, everything looks very...

The Arguedas Caves

The day started cloudy, rain was forecast, but apart from a few drops there was nothing. After a long Sunday breakfast, we continued our journey northeast. The picture was...

Rest day in Pamplona, Day 23

Wednesday, August 9, 2023, Day 23Today we had a well-deserved, but also much-needed rest day in Pamplona. A very beautiful old town where occasionally poor bulls are chased...

Goodbye France - Welcome to Spain

A rainy low pressure system (as known from the weather report) came from the Bay of Biscay and into our souls, so we spontaneously left Biarritz; well ... France :-( ... and...

Hiking up to the Sopela Bay (Artaza-Urederra)

The campsite in Sopela is well equipped, but unfortunately the view of the beautiful bay is increasingly blocked by apartment buildings. And so, even though we managed to get...

Cave dwellings of Arguedas

Continuing towards Bardenas Reales, a semi-desert that we really want to visit. We stop in Arguedas, known for its cave dwellings. We park the bus right in front of the caves....

Navarra Artaza-Udeterra

We actually stayed at this beautiful nature campsite Artaza-Udeterra for 4 nights because it offered a high level of relaxation for both of us. One of us was looking for peace...

Palace of Olite

Olite is the beautiful small town in northern Spain. In Basque, the town is called Erriberri. On our way to the French border, we randomly end up here. We are amazed by the...

Bardenas Reales Nature Park

We park in Arguedas and want to leave very early in the morning before the rush starts (the parking space is pretty crowded).Despite the rain the day before, the dirt road is...

Camino Francés - Arrival in Pamplona

It is very early in the morning, a few stars and the moon still shimmer silver, while on the other side the sun is already painting the sky pink. The streets are still empty, I...

Our last day in Spain

The journey continues through bright green beech forests. The forest glows in fresh spring green. We stop for lunch and then walk up a viewpoint on the mountain. A griffon...

camino frances - preparations

anticipation is the greatest joy - also for the camino del frances

Hike above the gorge.

Today, after a good breakfast accompanied by loud bird songs (and no other noises), we embarked on a Komoot hike that took us along an impressive gorge. Above this gorge, we had...

The (semi)desert: Bardenas Reales

21.02.2023: Bilbao - Arguedas (Bardenas Reales): With a stop to replenish our supplies at the Eroski Center (no, not what you think: Eroski's offer is comparable to Intermarché,...

Pamplona

A few impressions from the trip through the Pyrenees and the city of Pamplona. On this day the festival was celebrated in Pamplona with the "La Comparsa de Gigantes y Cabezudos".

Bardenas Reales: white and black semi-desert

22.02.2023: Arguedas / Bardenas Reales: This morning we visit the caves of Arguedas, which we saw illuminated in different colors last night. Then a tour of the semi-desert is...

Buen Camino

Words cannot describe And pictures cannot show How you feel a vibe We can only try, and try to let go.

Pamplona

Summer is back

Spain, Pyrenees.

Pamplona, Ainhoa, San Sebastian.