Spot the Piglet!

Little Piglet caused quite a stir on our travels, and news of our comings and goings travelled far and wide. Quite often we met with groups of other peregrinos who had already heard of us.

Naturally, she was full of smiles and made lots of new friends and has any number of new fans, not least, the lovely man in the Albergue Peregrino Casa Austriana in Los Arcos who made this cool memento for her.

It was there that we also learned a new meaning for Riu’s name. In Japanese, Riu means Dragon - with her flame red hair and burnt orange eyebrows, hear her ROOOOOOOOAR!

The first day of the camino took us up and over a pyrenee from the beautiful walled town of St Jean Pied de Port where we fell in love with Gateaux Basque.

You can just about see a little piggy head sticking out of the sling.

There’s daddy and baby Jesus.

Baby Jesus says ‘Peace, man’.

Or ‘Rock on’. Either way, we rocked on, all the way through the Basque Country, into La Rioja.

Today we are on a train to Pamplona heading to the start of the Camino de Santiago. One of the members of team is bringing her own bodyweight in personal gear, refusing to carry any of it, and insisting on being carried every step of the way.

There won’t be many blog posts over the next two weeks. We will update you all when we get back.

We’ve been doing some hiking over the past weekends in preparation for a big hike beginning this weekend. Piglet likes to get out into nature, au naturel, and show off her bacon.

It’s very unusual to see a moon rise in the middle of the day, but sometimes there’s a sliver of a cresent coming up…

On this day we were lucky to experience the rise of the full moon, in all its white, luminous glory…

Hey, Piglet, as well as the moon, I think I can see Uranus from here.