Day 5, Pamplona to Puente la Reina

It seems to me that everyday on the Camino is the same and at the same time totally different. The routine is predictable - wake up early, find the route, walk for a couple of hours and hope to find coffee and breakfast, complete walk, down a beer, rest, shower, eat, get an early night. What’s totally different is the landscapes we walk through and the people we’re meeting. Today was wonderful and the countryside we walked through quite different from previous days. Lots of wide open corn fields bordered by masses of wild flowers and occasionally interspersed with meadows of poppies. Lots of up and down and, in the last couple of hours, more heat than was comfortable but overall a joy.
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