For those of you considering walking the Camino del Norte, we can highly recommend Carmelo and his service, Le Petit Bag http://greencartrans.webcindario.com/ or (+34) 635 730 852. Carmelo provides the (for us, essential) service of transporting our luggage forward to the place where we’ll be staying that night. Ever since our Portuguese Way Camino last year, when Ed had his problem, we’ve determined not to carry our full packs.

Carmelo picks up our bags around 9 am each morning, and they are waiting for us at the new aubergine- hostel when we stumble in five to seven hours later. He has been completely reliable from our start in Irun to Deba, our fourth walking day in Spain.

Since Deba, Carmelo passed us on to Mikel, who will transport our bags to Bilbao (which we will reach tomorrow, D.V.) Then a different Mikel will take over to our end point (for this spring), Santander.