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Day 3 Camino Francés: Roncesvalles to Biskarreta · WCBH

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  Hey it's cam from wcbh you're just about to listen
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  to day three of our camino francis journey i
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  actually recorded five segments on the day but i've
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  only been able to publish two the first and the last there was just too much
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  wind around for segments two three and four to publish the the quality of the
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  audio was just was just so low pity i can't publish those because they've been
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  they're easily the best work i've ever done they were hilarious full of excitement adventure except No,
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  we'll get the audio sorted for tomorrow, day four, and I'll try and record when
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  there's not so much wind around.
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  Thanks for listening and enjoy segments one and five of day three.
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  Good morning, it's day three. We're just leaving Ronson Valles,
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  heading to a town called Biscoretta.
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  This is the beginning of stage two of the Camino Francis.
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  What we'll do is actually do two stages in three days.
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  So we're after Biscoretta, we'll head to Larissa Rona and then on to Pamploma,
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  running into the Bull's Place.
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  And that's where we'll have our first rest day, we think.
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  It's cold. The windchill factor is making it exceptionally cold.
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  And we're from the tropics, so we're definitely feeling it. Last night was an experience.
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  Let me tell you a bit about that. Firstly, we had a beautiful Mass to start
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  with, a Pilgrim's Mass in Spanish, in Latin, a special Pilgrim's blessing during the Mass.
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  A beautiful church and there are just so many little things they did during
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  the Mass to make it special as well so that was a lovely family experience,
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  as we are on this pilgrimage, a religious pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela where the remains of St.
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  James laying the crypt so that was a lovely Mass that we had last night,
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  And if you listen to the last episode, we spoke about what we're putting down
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  as our first big mistake of the Camino, and we'll take all these mistakes in our stride,
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  but we had booked our accommodation in a completely different town. So well done to us there.
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  The backup plan always is, not that we want to do this, is take a dormitory bed in an albergue.
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  He's more than happy to take a private room in an albergue, but as a family
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  with a young child, having a private room, having her own space in a private
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  bathroom, these things all really appeal to us.
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  So we had to take a dormitory bed.
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  It was two dormitories. I think each dormitory probably had about, I don't know,
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  12 beds in each dormitory,
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  shared facilities for toilets
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  and showers and they were shared co-ed facilities
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  so that was not something that we expected either but
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  it was a bed and it was warmer in
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  there than it was outside we were able to get a nice dinner there as well as
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  part of our ticket chan and sherrylyn had the chicken i had the fish me having
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  the fish will be a recurring theme i'm sure an interesting thing about the albergue,
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  was the smell.
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  Yeah, pilgrims walking along and jamming 12 of them into a dormitory, a small dormitory.
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  Not the greatest smell in the world. And sleep, a little bit interrupted by the snorers in the room.
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  Hopefully we were not one of those snorers. I managed to get about four hours last night.
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  Sherilyn says she got zero hours sleep.
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  And Chan said he didn't get much sleep either.
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  So we've had the dormitory albergue experience now. We're thankful that we had
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  that experience and thankful that there was a bed available.
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  But where possible, we will try and have private rooms along the way.
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  Now, what is mounting as possibly our second mistake is the cash situation.
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  Because of our emergency accommodation last night, we used some cash last night
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  and we've got a second lot of cash.
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  But i think we're about three euros short of
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  the next place now and the atm that we've just been
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  to was out of power so not working so another note
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  to self draw out more money from the atm
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  more money than you think you need because although
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  you can use card at many places along the way some places are
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  cash only so going to get creative along
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  the path today somehow i need to make three euro on the camino path so if you've
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  got any suggestions send some through social media comments there but we need
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  to make three euro before we get to bizcoretta.
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  Okay, so that's the end of day three. We've arrived in Biscoretta.
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  We're at our accommodation and it's fantastic. We've got access to our own kitchen.
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  So we're able to buy things from the shop and cook and prepare them,
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  even make our own tea and coffee,
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  etc., which we're really looking forward to just being able to prepare something
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  that we might usually eat at home rather than eating something that contains bread.
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  Whilst walking along, we saw some
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  signs that said Ernest Hemingway used to spend some time in this area.
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  This area is known as the Navarra region, if I'm pronouncing that correctly,
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  like the Nissen-Navarra, maybe.
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  Yeah, he used to spend some time here and write in this area and also use the
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  environment around as inspiration for some of the sceneries that might appear in his novels, etc.
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  So we're here in Biz Coretta. Tomorrow, we look to be going a little bit longer
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  tomorrow, probably about 16 Ks to Larasarona.
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  And then the next day, we aim to get into Pamplona.
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  But we need a good night of rest and hydration. This morning started very early.
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  I had a little bit of sleep. My wife and son didn't have so much.
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  But I started the day feeling very dehydrated, massive headache.
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  And I put that down to a few things.
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  I hadn't had a coffee in about two days, so that's not going to do me any good.
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  I'm someone who drinks a fair amount of tea and coffee.
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  Dehydrated from wearing a lot of gear whilst walking, but it was cold in the
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  dormitory, so I laid up whilst trying to get some sleep, so that would have
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  dehydrated me a little bit more.
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  And just the cold the cold I think dries dries you out a little bit so headache
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  started to dissipate across the morning we had a nice breakfast and you got
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  plenty of fluids in us into us across the day so headache is gone now need a
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  good night's sleep so we can get ready for day four.