Day 7 - Estella to Los Arcos

At a glance:
Food highlights: drinking wine from a fountain.
Kilometres walked: 20.94
# of steps: 28,895
Elevation gain: 370m

A pleasant walk and perfect walking weather.morning café con leche in a gas station sin croissants. A short walk uphill to a blacksmith shop and then up to a winery that has a wine fountain built into their back wall. They donate 100 litres of wine per day to the pilgrims.
From then on we were mostly in oak forests and fields of grain.
We are seeing more grape vines and fig trees. Judging by the trunks, the vines must be 200 years old and the fig trees 200.
We stayed at Pension Ostadar a modern townhouse converted for pilgrims with a few more euros in their pockets. We had heard that the municipal albergues were very crowded and people were sleeping on foamies in the dining halls.
We met a couple from Alberta who almost bought a place on Protection Island.
We had spaghetti bolognese in the square with April and Brenda from USA and Margaret, a spry 75 with great legs and great personality from the Isle of Jersey.Read more