Camino Day 3

We had planned on getting breakfast in Burguete, but the promised place was closed. We did find an open bar with a talkative barkeep who made us cafes con leche and explained the likely reason for the closure. They were in the middle of a multiple day festival for San Juan Baptista that starts each night with cookouts from 8-12pm. Then the bars are open for free drinks from midnight to 4am. Then there are after parties from 4am to 8am. The bars are open all day during the festival. He had slept three hours in three days.

In Espinal we were able to get breakfast and share a table with a woman from Kentucky. We would later return her lost hat to her.

Guidebook said 21 km from Roncesvalles to Zubiri . AllTrails said 22.5. Our watches said 23.25. Not a huge difference unless you're 21 km in and hungry. We had our sheep cheese from the Pyrenees and a croissant to hold us over fortunately. The walk was not extremely hard, but not easy with a few ascents and some parts of the trail being broken up slate. There was a food truck 3.5 km from Zubiri that we probably should have stopped at.

In Zubiri, even though we were into siesta time, we did find a bar open with good tortillas, Aquarius, and beer. In Spain tortillas are similar to potato quiches.

Now we're resting with our feet in the water before a 7pm peregrino dinner.Read more