Camino de Santiago Frances Route Day 1 2022 4K

[@Gardenwatch]

Enjoying your Camno blog Stacy! Thanks for posting - I started the Camino Francés on May 20th, so this is bringing back wonderful memories. The day I started, we experienced 80 km winds in the Pyrenees. Looking forward to the rest of your posts...

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks, Chris. We got the wind in Galicia, but we had perfect weather in the Pyrenees. Buen Camino!

[@zippsy]

You are doing full day videos of your Camino now? I’m so happy! I really enjoy your videos and I’ll look forward to them every day. They help make up missing our long walks since 2020.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

We plan to post a new video every Monday morning. That's probably as fast as we can make them because I work and Molly is starting back to school. We do love making the videos. It allows us to re-live the hike.

[@megrev94]

You girls are 👏 awesome 👏 I have seen all your work and it’s beautiful, how inspiring it is🎉

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thank you so much! We are back in Spain and staying the Camino Ingles from Ferrol tomorrow.

[@mattnorris241]

I am loving your videos!! Thank you for them. I wish my daughter was healthy enough to walk with me. She has a genetic heart condition so she cannot but she would love seeing all the horses and kitties! I will take a lot of photos for her when I go in May 2023!

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks for watching our videos. When you see our last four stages (from Santiago to Finnistere), you will see our other daugher, Claudia, who has many health challenges, walk those stages with us.

[@evanofelipe]

I wish you both well with your Camino. I mountain biked my Camino when I retired from work at the age of 53 during early May 1998 starting, like yourselves at St Jean Pied de Port, however there was then lots snow on the Pyrenees, but the weather remained mostly dry mostly on the first day. I started off road, but soon found the paths were stoney and treacherous, so decided to follow the roads because it was safer. Everyone’s experience of the Camino is uniquely different, affected by the weather, wonderful people that you met and the good will of the local people and Communities visited en route. It was something to remember and I’ll never regret. I think about my Camino often, it was a very special experience. I’m happy for you both.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks for sharing your experience on the Camino. I was 53 this summer also when we walked it. It seems like a good age to do it! I agree that all of our experiences are different, and I think that if we did it again, it would be another different experience.

[@jasperg357]

Planning a trip April of 2023 this is one of the best video qualities I have seen so far and the dead horse was unexpected to say the least.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks. I’ve hiked a good bit, and I’ve never seen anything like that dead horse. Making memories….

[@byrdsonawire]

Wow what a first day! Just came onto your videos and can’t wait to watch your journey. The vulture experience?! Wow, and great to know what to do. I went in May 2022 as well (left May 13), and have another planned for 2025. Thank you for sharing your detailed journey.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Yes it was! Welcome to the channel. What day did you start that May?

[@byrdsonawire]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims We started on May 13, 2022 from SJPP.

[@annamaas4335]

I don’t think I would have survived the horse incident! I’m glad you guys are making full videos!

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

I wasn’t sure we would either! We love making the full videos, too. Also, we thought you might like the cat count!🙂 This is Molly.

[@annamaas4335]

I’m sure you saw plenty of adorable cats🥰🥰🥰

[@hglundahl]

7:23 Basque cake is great, but I have eaten more of it in France since I got back over the Pyrenees than I did in Spain.

[@destys7]

Wow , i Meeting both of you so much at the camino! Thank you

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Wonderful! I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos.

[@destys7]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims yes, see was coming. We not speak much , but if you remeber i Was that guy with the cat sit on me and you ask "is that your cat"

[@msdaus14]

Great job!

[@SlogOnTheTyne]

Loving the vibe

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks!

[@hglundahl]

I am glad my own blog series on the camino (34 days hitchhiking before the 50 days on foot) involve no dead horse. They do involve toothache and diarrhaea, though. Subscribed and added like number 300.

[@banitesscruz9771]

Hi Stacey, it's a great thing you had the presence of mind to capture the buzzards feeding on the dead on video (11:06-12:40) It was a good move to scare them off with the shouting. Some types of buzzards are docile but some can be aggressive. Looks like you had a great Camino. God bless!

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Yes. We did have a great Camino. I was just lucky that I was already filming during the horse incident and didn't think to turn off the camera. I'm glad I got it, though. We will be posting videos every Monday.

[@mattnorris241]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims that was the most insane thing. I assume the horse fell down the hill?

[@HillTrekkerSarge]

Nice videos. I've walked the Camino seven times and the Frances route for four of those. I thought the vultures eating the dead horse was very interesting, but I guess none of that group ever lived on a ranch or farm before. Y'all had me laughing at being scared of them and a dead horse, screaming and running. That one poor woman saying she couldn't do it, lol. The ones you saw with white being prominent on the wings are griffon vultures, another species in the Pyrenees. I concur on the opinion about the Napoleon and while I do understand that there are many pilgrims for whom the first day out of SJPdP is very difficult due to age, physical limitations etc it is as a whole not as bad as many describe and very doable for most pilgrims.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Nope. I think we were all “city folks.”

[@pickingupsticks6767]

Wow, good leadership, Mama. And jolly good walking, both of you.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks. For situations like that, you've just got to put your head down and GO.

[@cindylopez4883]

Could you talk more about travel? How did you get from the airport to st john? What airlines did you fly? How far ahead did you buy tickets? Travel costs? ... thanks... Cindy from Dallas

[@iamzazami]

thanks for sharing the vulture event. Really educational. Keep safe

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks, will do! Thanks for watching.

[@christ3415]

I wander if the big birds closer to the trail during the covid lay off. Chris from Sydney, Australia.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

I'll be they did. We had been seeing them all day, but never thought we'd see them in the situation like that. We'll never forget it.

[@hvannorstrand]

Nice video! Leaving on my 4th Camino 9/22 from SJPP. Can’t wait. What size is your pack?

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

My pack is a 38 L Gregory Jade, but I have the XS/S size, so it is 35 L. If I had to do it over again, I would get the 28 L size of the same pack.

[@robertchoate9686]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims Did you find the umbrella up value?

[@gunterundrosaaubert6954]

When exactly did you start in Saint Jean? I also passed the dead horse, but it was earlier.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

We left St. Jean on May 29th.

[@gunterundrosaaubert6954]

​@@staceyandmollypilgrims me too. But I stayed in Orrison and passed the horse at 9:50 am. Beside of that it was a great time and I you enjoyed walking the camino.

[@katherinedorland6780]

Ooh just lovely! I'm planning my family's trip in May of next year- what week of may did you start??

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

We started on May 29th. We would have liked to start a little sooner, but Molly's school didn't get out until then.

[@mattnorris241]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims That's actually the same day I am starting in 2023! I'll have to ask you more questions! I'm a teacher so that's why I'm waiting until then!

[@user-uw4kf8pc4e]

What is that app you used for the routes

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

We learned from another Pilgrim while on the route about the Wise Pilgrim app. It costs a couple of euros, but it has a lot more information on hotels and cafes. We ended up using both of them for different things along the way. I still preferred Buen Camino for navigation, though.

[@TheAnactoria]

Yay! We’ve been waiting for the premiere. We’re leaving to do the Primitivo next month. I plan to video our Camino as well. I see you shot in 4K. Do you happen to know how many frames per second you shot in? My camera can do up to 60 fps but I think the memory card will fill up quick. We’re so excited to watch the rest of your Frances!

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

I'm not sure what I shot in, but I think I went with 30 fps. I used a GoPro Hero 10 camera and my iPhone. Enjoy the Primitivo. It is really beautiful.

[@jacobortega3424]

Where's your Camino video?

[@johnsommo2452]

Trying to follow your journey. I’m going back next year. How are the albergues with COVID? Do you feel safe?

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

We opted for private rooms everywhere. It wasn't just because of Covid, but because Molly was only 12 and I'm a light sleeper. We stayed well and felt safe the whole time. We made friends who were sleeping in the bunk rooms in albergues. For the most part, they thought it was fine, but they did have a couple of questionable experiences with sick people in bunks near them.

[@johnsommo2452]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims Thank you for your response. Wonderful to see the 2 of you out there. Buen Camino

[@marythereserenner1329]

How far in advance did you book your hotels?

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

I started in the fall of last year, but I booked most of them from January to March (we started walking in late May). I booked a couple in the final month before I went. What I did was probably overkill, but it was part of the excitement for me.

[@marythereserenner1329]

Thanks. I can tell you and Molly had a great time. Thanks for sharing.

[@bill8548]

Great video! Faces didn't look too tired at the end of your 27 kilometers! ("wasn't it 25?") LOL ... Dead horse?! What???? Totally 1-upped other vlogs who videoed worms and snails making their way across the path!! Looking forward to your next video [on Monday]! Thank you!!

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Ha! Yes, it was 25. We do enjoy a good slug, but even the best slug can’t compare to all of those horses and bearded vultures.

[@oscarmolinaoutdooradventur1648]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks for watching!

[@jackelinerodrigues8758]

You girls are sooo sweet!

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thank you, and thanks for watching our videos!

[@deacondavidviscount7579]

Hello Stacy and Molly. I don’t know if I ever mentioned this to you but when my son and I walked the Camino last May we saw the horse carcass in the ditch. We both laughed as we recalled your encounter with the dead horse. Our experience was nowhere near as interesting as yours. Hope you’re both well. What’s your next adventure? Ours is doing the North American circle in a van (Oct 2024-August 2025).

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

So interesting! We are walking the full Norte route starting in late May. We can’t wait! Van life looks fun. Are you doing the northern stuff in the summer or winter?

[@deacondavidviscount7579]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims we plan to be in Florida for Oct-Dec; Texas & Arizona Jan-March; Western Canada April-May, making our way homeward across Northern States & Canada June-September....

[@mikevargas809]

delightful

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Welcome to our channel!

[@hglundahl]

12:50 I believe you! Even just a dead cat smells bad, and there's more of it in a horse ...

[@gazza1196]

Walked this to Orrisson but stopped. Should of gone to roncevailles same day. Ah well next time will know better

[@hglundahl]

15:21 _"another mother daughter pair from CA"_ Where in CA are you from?

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

We live in Houston, TX.

[@hglundahl]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims Oh, sorry. My bad. I misunderstood. Never been there. Had it been CA, I'd have loved if it were Anaheim, San Diego, LA or Newport Beach - I was there age nine, ninth BD in Anaheim. But I hope you enjoy Houston as well.

[@dorde104]

💛

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Thanks. Buen Camino!

[@gazza1196]

John Brierley R,I,p

[@jacobortega3424]

I wonder if you understood those horses are for food...Horse meat is good! It's nice to see their pastures.

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Yes. We know that this is a possibility. We also love cows, sheep, etc., but we are not vegetarians….

[@jacobortega3424]

@@staceyandmollypilgrims pretty cool! Thanks for your videos!

[@graemehunter5063]

Life is always full of the unexpectedSo what may you see or do tomorrow

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

You are right, Graeme. This is one of the great lessons that we can learn from the Camino - and from nature and travel in general.

[@hglundahl]

If you had taken a year off, you could have started it with doing the full road to Santiago in a bit more than one month. In 2004 (I was younger back then), I walked from Pamplona to Santiago in 50 days. I arrived into Spain in Irún, the hospitalera told me to avoid Camino del Norte, as I had to sponge on other pilgrims and Camino Francés has more of them, and so, she gave me money to the bus to Pamplona, which is on the other camino but some km back, so it wouldn't be cheating. 750 km / 50 days = medium of 15 km per day. With 15 km/day, and 900 km, you'd have arrived on October 7, like I arrived on October 6. W a i t ... you did this in May? I thought you came to Spain on Aug 8, but that's the release of the video. Sorry.

[@francisbarrois8956]

i should do the same. Best regards francis

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

Buen Camino if you get to go!

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

ahaha buzzards will fly away if you walk past them ahahaha.. very sad

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

The horse situation was incredibly sad. We and other hikers speculated for days what could have happened to it. I don't imagine we'll ever find out.

[@katewill7302]

Wow! The horse! 😑 At least I know what to do if I come across that situation. Yikes. 🫣

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

The smell was the most disgusting part of the horse incident. It was memorable for sure.

[@user-uw4kf8pc4e]

What is that app you used for the routes

[@staceyandmollypilgrims]

We used the Buen Camino app for navigation.