Hello from Portsmouth. I was going to ask you what SJPDP meant but the penny has just dropped - St Jean Pied du Port. Did you take the same route each time? I've driven from Bilbao to the Mediterranean a few times, looking from the motorway across the flat grape areas always looked daunting to me, seemed to be very little shade out there? Does the walk avoid the area or do you just have to plod through it? I walked from Roncesvalles to St Jean last year, blistering hot day, I stayed overnight at the Refuge about 10km from there. Great fun, good food, too much wine!