| 6 Sep 2013, 07:00. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port—at the physical and temporal (for me) beginning of the Camino Francés. With the Rue D’Espagne still devoid of local inhabitants, pilgrims prepare to begin the 500-mile journey awaiting them. The Camino has many lessons to teach, and one of them (for me) was that Spain and this part of France are not in their expected time zone, but rather are in the easterly adjacent one (i.e., Central European Time). Consequently, the sun rises and sets an hour later than when one would expect. The sun here wouldn’t rise for another half hour. By the middle of October, when I’d arrive in Santiago, it wouldn’t be rising until about 08:30. |
