Author: Dave Smith

Camino 2018 - Days 01-07

Day 1 – Arrival in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port

Today we arrived in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, the starting point of the most traditional route (the Camino Frances) of the Camino de Santiago from southwest France to northwest Spain.  Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port literally means “St. John at the Foot of the Pass”.  (Although some biblical scholars claim the more pure translation of “Saint John of the Many Hyphens”.) We …