It’s Maureen’s 65th birthday. We were up early and soon out on the cobblestone road that would take us through the town and have us make the first leg of our trip. We made our first stop for a coffee at Huntto. We began the day with a partner for Maureen, another woman who had stayed at the same auberge.
We enjoyed our café au lait while watching other pilgrims pass by while stopped at the Ferme Ithurburia which was also an auberge. I imagined that some people who began their pilgrimage later in the day would stop there for the night. Our destination was at Orisson as we didn’t want to push it too much for the first day.
We arrived in Orisson early and had to wait for the auberge to be ready to assign us a room for the night. We had a lunch on the terrace while waiting and met up with a number of others who were stopping in Orisson. Finally, we got our passports stamped and our beds. When supper came, the one woman who had been walking with us told the others, there were thirty-six of us in Orisson, about Maureen’s birthday. Everyone sang Happy Birthday and it was just perfect.
