Pamplona - August 7

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Leaping Lizards - its a long way from Burgete to Pamplona, but somehow we managed to find ourselves on the outskirts of this lovely city last night. The weather was cooler yesterday - closer to 30 than 35, we thought, and the walking was good - a little up a little down - and some of the in between, but fortunately it was mostly shaded and later in the day the wind came up to help keep us cool. I think it must be one of the nicest parts of this walk, largely through forest ridges.

I had my first taste of my favorite Spanish things yesterday - Cafe con leche and Tortilla, my preferred breakfast (and lunch) items. The crowds have thinned out a little, too and there were many points during the day when there was no one on the trail but me, making it entirely peaceful. Jonathon and I have worked out a system where one walks in front of the other and then waits at the beginning of the next village, as we have differing paces. This works well as we each have the opportunity to walk at our own pace and then meet up for a chat every once and a while.

We arrived at the Albergue in Trinidad de Arre around 5pm yesterday and were both wrecked. But the friendly welcome from the Pere there soon had us feeling better. We dined a la supermarket with baguette, cheese and some guajada, which a cross between yoghurt and cream cheese (yum), for dessert. It was lights out early at the albergue but sleep was illusive. One of the peregrinos had a serious hack and spent the entire night coughing with a funny aha, ha, aha, ha kind of sound. J slept through it but I was not so lucky and this morning was ready for a good nights rest. Not an option, so we´ll just keep on keeping on.