Whooopla baby – we’re here! We’ve also been on the beer in the afternoon sun!
We’re athletes, our bodies can cope!
You got it – 2 san miguels and I’m ready to hit “Bar STOP” or the irunita nite club – but the dorms shut at 9 so its adios amigos time for some shut eye.
Before we do we have some ground breaking news – as predicted before we left – if we’re doing well we’ll find a way to screw it up so we’re going to los arcos tomorrow and if the legs are quick enough and the feet fine we’ll motor over there by 11.30 and then carry on another 8km to torres del rio.
We’ll be leaving here early as its city walking for 20 mins so we can do that in the dark. Eyes bigger than our belly – you better believe it – and that means very big!
We’ve bought our fruit and now its off for the peregrinos cheap’n’cheerful scran. Another 8 euro another 3 courser but will there be vin, tinto – do we need it.
There’s a nice square here in estella and a lot of roman architecture. Man o man after killing jesus christ they didn’t have try to make amends.
I guess that’s how the catholic guilt thing started. Four brilliant churches and a few other monuments to the durability of sandstone and the stupidity of people thinking a wee gift’ll make it ok. If God’s anything like Jackie – it’ll take more thqan a wee trinket like a cathedral to make up for disappearing for 6 weeks.
Oops slipped off message there, I blame the drink which of course I’m not having nor enjoying even if I did have it which I haven’t really.
To be honest I was dragged away from my siesta to walk to pubs so that Si could say – “good there’s one there we can come back to”.
Only after passing 12 and bumping into both Eileen (who was jumping a bus to los arcos – she didn’t have 6 weeks like us)and the 3 Irish girls we’d met in Zubiri, who were heading home after one had sprung a blister (and were only here a week anyhow) – did he finally cop the idea that all this walking had already taken place and now we should be sitting resting in the shade with a lemonade.
Having walked me the equivalent of george street to the castle via lothian road just to say he liked the TSB best was vaguely inviting abuse – but I’ll save my invective for tomorrow when he’s 100m ahead going up villamayor.
Today’s word
Amigo – friend
Mi amigo – my friend
No mi amigo – Simon/al* delete as appropriate!
Cheers
Al
500 miles walking the Camino to Santiago de Compostela 
never mind the sloping off for six weeks, who is this eileen and the four coleens, it better be a basque girl band, or you’re peregrinos fodder!