Getting Home (was Re: ryanair to biarritz)

[Barry Evans]

We just winged it, not knowing when we'd get to Santiago (the best
way!) or if we'd go on to Finisterre (we did) but knowing there are
coaches, trains, planes (deep discount from Iberia for anyone with a
compostela) from Santiago and 2 ferries back to the UK. Not only
don't i think it's necessary to book home at the end of your camino,
i'd advise against it unless you're on a very tight schedule. Lots of
travel agents in Santiago.
Don't worry, you WILL get home, and (unlike middle age pilgrims) you
won't have to walk!
barryevans


--- Ed <ed_maddenaLINEONE.NET> wrote:
> Barry,
>
> The info on the trains from Biarritz to St Jean is really useful
> and very
> timely as I was just about to look into this in some more detail.
> At the
> moment RyanAir's winter timetable is  only offering 1 flight per
> day (dep
> 11.35, arr 14:30) out of Stansted to Biarritz, but this could
> change next
> Spring when their new timetable comes out.
>
> One thing I really haven't worked out is how to get home after the
> Camino!
> All my thoughts so far have been centred on getting to the start
> point and
> completing the pilgrimage  At the end,  I have just assumed that it
> would be
> pretty straightforward to get a train from Santiago back to
> somewhere like
> Bayonne.  Do you (or anyone) have any info on this?
>
> Ed
> (Ware, Herts, UK)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Barry Evans
> To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 3:24 AM
> Subject: ryanair to biarritz
>
>
> " ...cheap RyanAir flight from London to Biarritz from which I
> should
> be able to get a train to St Jean without any probs. "
>
> fwiw, get the EARLY flight out of Stanstead. When we flew august 28
> this year, we got the really, really cheap price (nine pounds! I
> believe, of course they ding you for a bunch of airport tax on
> top),
> but could only get on the 2nd flight of two a day (we booked at the
> last minute). That got us to Biarritz just in time to have missed
> the
> 2.30 pm (more or less, don't quote me) train from Bayonne (30 mins
> by
> regular bus from Biarritz airport direct to Bayonne train station)
> to
> St. Jean, meaning we got the 5.30? train. We got to the St Jean
> camino office around 9 pm (too late to get bunks in the refugio, it
> had been full for a while, but the gentle folks in the office took
> us
> down the street to a pension, cost about $26 I seem to recall, for
> two of us)...by the time we got to bed after a (great!) meal it was
> after 11, meaning that the next day over the top to Roncesvalles
> (16
> miles, 4200 feet elevation gain) found us a little tired at times
> (still a wonderful day though, some of the best scenery between St
> Jean and Finisterre = first day!).
> barry evans
>
>
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