After a brief stay in Barcelona, we arrived in a very cold and wet Pamplona the day before we were due to start our walk. We excitedly purchased our pilgrims passports from the Archbishop´s Palace and looked around before experiencing our first rather disgusting Menu del Dia.
The next day we set off in the blustery wind which continued well into the evening. Not surpisingly the whole area is covered in wind farms! The morning was an uphill stretch through cornfields scattered with beautiful wild flowers - poppies and gorse. (Q and A we thought of you at Alto de Perdon!). We managed 16kms before breaking for lunch and stumbled through our last 6kms full of chorizo and cheese and we fell into out hotel in Puente La Reina. The town was abuzz with the footie game especially when Man U was beaten!
Day 2 was glorious as we hiked through vineyeards, cornfields, orchards and olive groves - not much shade though but only a 25 C (compared to a reported 47C in Dubai!). The birds twittered all day and we saw some beautiful little foals - not much canine life yet though....
We reached Estella at 3pm after 22kms with Nick asking - "Do your feet start feeling better after a while?" Off to find some vino and pinchos now -yum.
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