Bienvenidos en Espana

Growl, technology has failed us again. We emailed a photo from our phone to this blog at the French/Spanish border, or what we thought was the border, but sadly it didn´t work. We will try and paste it in later.

We had a good, but steep climb up to the Orisson albergue yesterday and had a bit of a party in the evening, with lots of people and the previously mentioned champagne. It turned out it was an English speaking American, not a Brit, so we remain very much a rare breed and in the minority.

We continued our climb at 8.30 this morning and we are pleased to report the rain did not materialise either yesterday, or today, other than a few spots which came to nothing. The ascent was a lot less steep today, but we did have to contend with some very strong wind which required us bears to put safety ropes on, otherwise we´d have been blown straight back to Le Puy.

We got to the fence that marked the border around 11.00 a.m. but were not quite sure where the exact crossing point was. We certainly did not need to show our bearports. After consulting out guide books we eventually decided it was a cattle grid and wooden gate - very low key - and took some photos there. We did see helicopters circling overhead, possibly looking to see who was coming and going, but we seemed to be acceptable.

We took the easy descent to Ronscevalles and are now waiting for the Abbey to open, while having a coke and using the internet in a bar.

Lots of love the Camino Bears xxx