Estella

I started at 6:30 today, that seems like the routine now.  The first thing was a hill.   It seemed a little rough to me making you start your day with a hill.   I guess it is better at the start then the end.  :)  The hardest thing is starting your day without coffee.    I had to walk almost 8km before I found a bar opened.    Try walking 8k for your first coffee of the day, and I guarantee no matter how bad it is, it's going to be good.    I don't know if I told you but a bar is where you get coffee and a cafeteria is where you get booze a little back wards.   This was the view from the first hill.  
I will tell you now because I will forget by the time I finish this blog.    It was a 23.5 km day.

This is a fence where every one picks up sticks and puts them in a cross on the fence.    I skipped that part.

Saw this plaque on a house and wondered if it was the family's coat of arms.   

Another cemetery 

They bury there dead here not like Mexico.   Mexico cemeteries are more like New Orleans. 

This is a rock face I could barely make out when I started walking this morning.   I had to zoom 36 times to get this.    Estella (where I am now) is about 5km from it.

It's funny how you can see a sign that says 16.1km and it makes you happy it's that close

This is Cirauqui a very nice place.  It's on top of a hill and has 360 degree views.

The streets are all up or down.  No flat streets here

View from the top

This is not the best picture of a Roman road.    I was to busy looking where I was stepping to take any other pictures.   Not easy to walk on

This picture screams "These boots have hurt my feet enough!"   it is surprising how much stuff gets left on the trail. I have seen everything from socks to underwear, I even saw a tent with a sign "please take".



Another bridge that is supposed to be a Roman built one.

We crossed under the hwy a lot today.   

Another great view

Old Church

And another bridge

This is San Veremundo the patron of the Camino

An old church

A field of oats full of poppies.   We pay a lot for poppies, and here they are a weed

And I made it to Estella!   The book said when you see the cross you're there

the water fountain leading into town

This sign says only 695km to Santiago

 

This is across from where I am staying

This is Basque country.   They don't even speak Spanish here. These signs are on everything

A real old Church

Even the faces on the people have worn away from the elements

One more bridge

And this is where I am

I was the first one here today that's my backpack with the shell and the umbrella  

Then my 2 Italian friends showed up.  We don't even know one word of each others language.   We were interviewed for a TV station, so he is running around telling everyone he's a movie star. It's an internet station JN1 and it should be on in a week or so.   Now I've made it to the big time internet TV!!!   That is, if I don't land on the cutting room floor....

This is Chris from London and Miriam from Montreal we keep meeting up and hanging for a bit every day.

And this is where I am siting writing this.

Sorry about so many pictures. 

The feet still hurt so I am doing another easy day tomorrow. A little over 20km