Basque Walks The stocky woman in knee high rubber boots waved a red rag at the passing traffic. On this rural road traffic was hardly worth noticing, a farm truck, a car every five or ten minutes. There were more pilgrims than cars. She was moving sheep back to the farm after their summer pasturage in the mountains. The Chemin de St. Jacques de Compostello crosses back and forth on the road where the farm woman guided the flock with the help of a dog. A man and teenaged boy, possibly the husband and son of the traffic stopping woman, herded the black faced latxa sheep across the road. Other areas of Basque Fance the sheep are Manex, white face. We pilgrims on foot stopped and stared at the Transhumance, the ancient Basque ritual of transferring
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