[Gocamino] Travel-taxis

[Lydia Banales]

In Viscarette, we had to cut short our walk to to my bad knee. We took a 
taxi from Viscarette to Zubiri and from Zubiri to Pamplona. We asked how 
to find a taxi at the bar-cafe in Viscarette. The taxi driver lived near 
the bar but we had to wait several hours because the taxis often have 
contracts with some of the manufacturing businesses to drive workers to 
and from the town. The driver could only go as far as Zubiri, but he put 
us in touch with the taxi driver there. If you ask politely, people will 
go out of their way to help you. I'm assuming that if this taxi service 
was available from Viscarette to Pamplona, it's probably available the 
other way. The cost was not outrageous. We negotiated the price with the 
drivers. These are probably not real "taxi" services; I don't remember 
any meters. The drivers were pleasant and honest. Lydia

Grant Spangler wrote:

> Madrid to Saint Jean Pied de Port
>
> If you take the train to Pamplona, you are close to Saint Jean, but 
> there is no inexpensive public transportation between the two. There 
> is a bus from Pamplona to Roncesvalles, but nothing all the way to 
> Saint Jean. You could take the bus to Roncesvalles, then employ a taxi 
> to get to Saint Jean, but that will probably run as much as a taxi 
> from Pamplona to Saint Jean. The large commercial taxi services are 
> all based in Pamplona. There are some ‘private’ taxis which may be 
> amenable to lower rates; they are probably going to be based in Zubiri 
> or Burguete.
>
> Two options: One – start in Roncesvalles, Two – get the train to Saint 
> Jean Pied de Port.
>
> Here is option two:
>
> RENFE from Madrid to Hendaya, four trains daily: 
> http://horarios.renfe.es/hir/index.jsp?page=hjhir130.jsp&O=MADRI&D=11602
>
> SNCF from Hendaye (note French spelling!) to Bayonne, then Bayonne to 
> Saint Jean Pied de Port.
> http://www.ter-sncf.com/aquitaine/default_uk.asp
>
> Type in HENDAYE and ST-JEAN-PIED-DE-PORT, and put the time and date.
>
> Viola.
>
> Bon Voyage,
>
> Grant
>
> Grant Spangler
> GASpangler at hotmail.com
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>
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