A Day of Rest

Regardless of today's rest day, we still woke up around 6am, felt strange rolling over to go back to sleep, but I soon got used to it.

Even in a big town it's easy to spot off duty pilgrims in the evening. The flip flops or sandals to air their feet, the lightweight hiking trousers, non creasing lightweight t-shirts or long sleeve quarter zip tops and the slow walking or even the tell tale hobble. We also fall into all of those categories.

Rain is forecast for the next few days so we spent some time hunting out lightweight ponchos, more to keep the rucksacks dry than us.

We had lunch and spent a few hours with Dave and Christine, as Logroño was as far as they were going on the Camino. They want to come back to finish it off and were a little envious of the fact we were carrying on and we felt a little envious of the fact they were going home!

Within 50 yards of leaving them we bumped into the two Australian girls we had dinner with on our first night in Roncesvalles. Then another 50 yards after that bumped into an American guy, Josh, we walked with for a few hours on the 2nd day. Which was a surprise as he had picked up a bike in Estella and was cycling to Leon before walking the rest of the journey.

Despite the day off we felt as tired as if we'd have walked, so an early night tonight ready for an early start again tomorrow.Read more