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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>'Hunnto' is on the Route Napoleon...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is listed in Millan Bravo's "A Practical
Guide for Pilgrims...", p.43, but listed as 'Untto'. Phone # listed as:
(05 59 37 11 17)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In "El Camino de Santiago a pie" (El Pais/Aguilar,
1999), p.64-65, it is called 'Honto'.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OBSERVATION: The pilgrim will notice that
places along the camino do NOT necessarily have only one name; often they have
two names, and other times more. In Basquelandia the names are always
different, and bear no similarity to one another at all. Further along the
camino, in the area of Galicia, the sounds of the place names will be
similar, but the spelling different. Apparently travel writers are seldom
attentive to these different names for the same place, and it can be a source of
confusion.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul Newfield </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=santiagowalkingaHOTMAIL.COM
href="mailto:santiagowalkingaHOTMAIL.COM">Joe English</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: gite between SJPP and
Roncesvalle</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 13:22:27 -0700, Joe and Lydia
Banales<BR><<A href="mailto:lydiaaBANALES.NET">lydiaaBANALES.NET</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>>Could someone please clarify if the gite is on the Val
Carlos route or<BR>>the Napoleon route. Thanks. Lydia<BR>><BR>><BR>As
you now know the Gite is at Hunnto.<BR>Regarding staying there, if that is
your intention, here is my tuppence<BR>worth ......<BR>I do not feel that one
has put sufficient distance from SJPP for this to be<BR>an adequate 'midway'
point for those who are concerned about the walk to<BR>Roncesvalles. The
distance is something like 6 km, and is by no means the<BR>most 'vertical'
part of that particular section. Also if you get to the<BR>gite early in the
day there is NOTHING to do there. It is literally a farm<BR>building on its
own.<BR>When we left SJPP (at 10:45 AM on day one) full of trepidation, the
lady in<BR>the office in SJPP strongly suggested that we stay in Hunnto that
night,<BR>and then move on in the morning. Our original plan was to walk
to<BR>Roncesvalles, but she talked us out of it. Anyway when we got to the
Gite<BR>it began raining, and poured for about an hour. The lady in the
gite<BR>allowed us to shelter outside, and closed her doors and curtains. We
felt<BR>very unwelcome. We had intended staying there, but her
unfriendliness<BR>helped us decide to walk on to Roncesvalles. When the rain
cleared we<BR>continued and got to Roncesvalles at about eight PM (I
think).<BR>Now to the main point of my note (sorry about the negativity
above)....If<BR>one were planning to use the stop at Hunnto, a good plan would
be to arive<BR>at SJPP in the afternoon, spend some time looking around the
town and then<BR>walk to Hunnto in time for dinner. I often regret that I did
not spend any<BR>time in SJPP, as it is a beautiful town in it's own right.
Like most<BR>Perigrinos I got in on the train and got on the Camino as fast
as<BR>possible. Next time ....<BR>Best
regards<BR>Joe</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>