QUESTIONS? CALL: + 34 650 713 759

Pyrenean Experience

  • HOME
  • GEORGINA HOWARD
    • Georgina Howard, Writer and Founder
    • Blog
    • Photos & TV Documentaries
    • Responsible Travel Pledge
  • HOLIDAY TYPES
    • Self-Guided/Guided Walking Weeks in the Basque Pyrenees
    • Group Guided Walking Weeks in the Basque Pyrenees
    • Spanish Language Immersion Weeks
    • Creative Writing Retreats in the Pyrenees
    • Walking the World War II COMET Line
    • The Total Basque Mountain Experience (One Day Tour)
    • Inmersion Total en Ingles en Los Pirineos
  • ACCOMMODATION
    • B & B and Holiday Home near Baztan Valley
    • The Farmhouse
    • How to get there
    • The Baztan Valley
      • Ituren
      • Basque Valleys of the Pyrenees
      • Baztan Valley Walks and Traditions
  • DATES & PRICES 2023
  • PRESS & REVIEWS
  • CONTACT
Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 14 November 2012 / Published in Uncategorized

Lunch & Autumn Walks in Ituren (17th November 2012)

autumnviewsituren 550x412 - Lunch & Autumn Walks in Ituren (17th November 2012)

Views from the school run to Ituren

The best way to start off this invitation is with a picture of Ituren on the school run down the mountain earlier this week .. and if this photo came with a sound track, you would also hear the haunting cries of the cranes as they cross the valley fleeing the winter from the north.  True to Amatxi’s prognosis we are now experiencing an Indian summer or “quince summer” (el veranillo de San Miguel o el veranillo del membrillo). With the warm golden sunshine and the walnuts ripening on out-stretched sheets in the farms this is by far the most beautiful time to see the area.

Invitation: 17th November 2012

Those who are up for the adventure are welcome to join me for a light lunch of cheese and wine etc. at my home in Ameztia, Ituren this Saturday between 13.00 – 14.30.  Afterwards I invite you all to join me on a pretty walk along the shepherding paths and smugglers tracks that lead from the house so that we can enjoy the stunning autumn colours! The perfect tonic before winter sets in.

Here are the directions: Good luck!

Take the N121a from Behobia, direction Iruña/Pamplona and turn off at Donestebe (Santesteban). Cross the village and take the direction to Leiza, passing the village of Elgorriaga and then Ituren.  As you enter the village of ITUREN (from N121A and Santesteban) you will pass the Farmacia on your right, then an Asador on your left. Soon afterwards you will find a square on your left and a road that goes off to the left alongside the square (direction LATSAGA). Take this turning. This road crosses over a bridge and continues past some small, modern houses on the left and at the end of the road some older houses (the first with a large balcony over-looking the road). Here, do NOT enter the area of the older houses but follow the road as it takes a very sharp and steep fork to the left. Follow this road about 3 km uphill through the countryside until you get to a set of blue rubbish containers.                               

At the rubbish containers the road forks; it goes either straight ahead (putting the first house on your left-hand side) or forks steeply left up-hill (putting the first house to your right). At the rubbish containers go straight ahead, putting the first house on your left hand side and continue gently up hill. You will soon pass fields on both sides and drive through the middle of a farm, the farmhouse to your right. (If you see anyone at the farm say hello and ask then for directions to my house). If not, continue up-hill until you come to a cemented crossroads. (More in the shape of an X than a  +). Continue straight ahead/leftish along the flat along a row of walnut trees and you will soon see a wide turning to your left. Do NOT take it).  

Continue straight ahead on the road that gently bares right (putting a largish barn (which looks like the face of a Koala Bear) to the left of you). The road climbs and then dips and passes through some chestnut trees with a long barn above a field to your right. When you come out of the trees you will see a sign saying IAULIN BORDA and a gravel drive dipping sharply away to your left. Take it. The house you see to your left is ours! You have earned the first drink simply by getting here!

P.S: (Bring walking boots and warm clothes and a bottle of water)

 

Spanish table manners. Una cerveza por favor1 550x412 - Lunch & Autumn Walks in Ituren (17th November 2012)

Cheers!

 

 

  • Tweet

1 Comment to “ Lunch & Autumn Walks in Ituren (17th November 2012)”

  1. Steve Cracknell says :Reply
    15 November 2012 at 7:54 pm

    We’d love to come, the colours look so beautiful but, as you know, we are at the other end of the Pyrenees – at bit too far. Have fun anway.
    Really, it isn’t that difficult to find you!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Categories

  • Basque Country Walking
  • Basque Culture and Tradition
  • Basque Food
  • Basque Lifestyle
  • Basque music
  • Basque Mythology
  • Baztan Valley
  • Bilingual Families
  • Dolores Redondo
  • Elizondo
  • Exercise and Learning
  • Ituren carnivals
  • Learning Spanish in Spain
  • linguistics and language learning
  • Spanish-English differences
  • Teaching Spanish
  • The Basque Language
  • The Invisible Guardian
  • Uncategorized
  • Visit the Pyrenees
  • Walking in the Pyrenees
  • Wildlife of the Pyrenees
  • World War II Escape Lines
  • Zubieta carnivals

Tags

Basque Country Basque Culture Basque Gastronomy Basque history Basque language basque traditions baztan valley bi-lingualism Carnivals Christmas Traditions Cider comet line Elizondo farming Fiesta Francois Grosjean Gastronomy Georgina Howard Ituren Joaldunak Krashen language learning Lozanov Marion Micheal Portillo Mills Nature Olentzero Onomatopoeias Pyrenees smuggling Spain Spanish conversation Spanish courses Spanish language Spanish school teaching total immersion trees tuition Vygotsky walking wellington world war II Zubieta

Featured Posts

  • Typical farmhouse in Zubieta

    Zubieta in the Basque Pyrenees

    0 comments
  • The Pyrenees with Michael Portillo

    The Pyrenees with Michael Portillo

    0 comments
  • Comet Line children meet in France

    Basque Children of the Resistance

    0 comments
  • pyrenean experience sunset over the valley on our guided walking holidays in the Pyrenees

    Comet Line Crossing of the Pyrenees

    0 comments
  • Map of the French and Spanish Pyrenees

    Secrets of the Pyrenees

    0 comments

Location

Mapoflocation 350x262 - Lunch & Autumn Walks in Ituren (17th November 2012)

Contact

Phone UK: +44 (0)121 711 3428

Phone Spain: +34 650 713759

Email: info@pyreneanexperience.com

Info

  • Privacy Policy
  • Responsible Travel Pledge
Responsible Travel
  • TripAdvisor
  • GET SOCIAL

© 2021 GEORGINA HOWARD All rights reserved

TOP