Great day, now in Estella

We have had a wonderful day…perfect walking weather - fine, with puffy clouds floating around, but not threatening rain, cool - it said 6° when I woke, but I could see that it was going to get warmer than yesterday, and sent the puffer jacket with the bag and just had the wind jacket, and by the end had got down to just shirt sleeves…but not hot. And we just walked through spectacular panoramas, with the bright green of the grain crops, the bright yellow of the canola, interspersed with vineyards just starting to sprout leaves, and olive groves.

Today’s walk was a series of serious uphill climbs leading to little immaculate towns, then down again and up again…the first was the hardest, with a finale of steep grade…but we survived, me plodding and pausing for breath, but once at the top all was forgotten! We stopped for refreshments whenever we needed to, and there was a bar…and just sat down by the side of the track and picnicked. Very relaxed, and we are now at Estella in a hostel I haven’t been to before, but very good, and we were sent to a restaurant in the main square for dinner. R and R both managed enormous hamburgers, I ordered a burrata salad which was delicious but enormous and too much to finish - and I hate to leave anything…but we all managed a small dish of caramel ice cream after!

This is rather a quick sketch of the day…it is hard to remember specifics, and I need to go to sleep soon! But have to add that I did 25.27 kms, and 38,489 steps, including breakfast and dinner!Read more