Wednesday - Bordeaux
Spent time in Bordeaux en route to La Rochelle, where discovered that the city council have marked a route through the city centre by adding the scallop motif to the street signs, and setting bronze plaques into the pavement. Followed a lengthy section of this, not only along the obvious rue St James (which name apparently comes not from English but from a Gascon form of Latin ‘Jacomus’) through the Grosse Horloge and past the site of the former Hôpital St Jacques, but also from the Porte Cailhau, and past the church of St-Pierre with a statue of St James in the portal, St-Michel, and the cathedral, which not only has a statue of St James in the portal, but also a chapel with a C14 wall-painting of St J.
Update: the city now publishes a free booklet on this route, and is talking of opening a pilgrim refuge as well.