We are at Los Arcos

Another really lovely day! It feels repetitive but we keep walking through wonderful countryside, spectacular panoramas - crops of very bright green grain crops, yellow canola fields, vineyards still looking rather bare with leaves just sprouting, olive groves here and there…what more could you want! And we are blessed with the weather - today started coolish, but soon we had shed all layers to our shirt sleeves but it wasn’t too hot, there was a pleasant breeze, and blue sky and sun…

So we left Estella at about 9…totally relaxed, and of course there was the wine “fountain” …not what you really feel like so early in the morning, and we didn’t have receptacles but we all had a few drops (me in the palm of my hand!)…and we walked on, up and up to Villamayor de Monjardín, looking back and amazed to see towns and mountains so far away. Then it was basically downhill to Los Arcos, but by then it did seem a bit long, even with the beautiful surroundings…we stopped and ate now and then - beautiful fresh bread we bough this morning in Estella, with cheese, mandarins, sometimes bread with honey (and butter we had pocketed from breakfast)… chatted with people following our timing …all so special…the 3 of us are a wonderful team, and travelling well.

Tomorrow slightly shorter…about 18 kms I think - to Viana. Today was 22.74 kms and 34,953 steps.Read more