Day 4 - Olé Olé Pamplona

Urdaniz to Pamplona
19.9km
The guesthouse in Urdaniz turned out to be good, a fantastic salad and roast chicken communal dinner with Korean, French, Aussie and Italian guests. Breakfast was the usual bread and jam with coffee and orange juice, good carbs to see us on our way. It was a relief to get going, the French lady snores like a diesel engine all night so sleep wasn’t good.
It was perfect walking weather, slightly overcast and temps in the mid teens. The track was generally good with shade and minor undulations, and followed a contour track beside the Arga river, which goes through to Pamplona.
My walking buddies this morning were Nick and Kathleen from Devon, we generally chatted and laughed the whole way, it was great.
Pamplona is a nice city, very quiet because of the 1 May holiday, but there were 2 lively marching demonstrations, watched from a distance by armed police.
The moment of the day was bumping into Tom from Perth, my upstairs bunk neighbour from Orisson. I reminded him of his great quote that he’d never seen the sunrise over the mountains, which made me realise how much we sometimes take for granted or don’t appreciate. We may not walk these steps again so let’s enjoy each one.
Walking distance total 73.9kmRead more