Hotel Ac Ciudad De Pamplona

... jam and cereal and orange juice. Other options not taken by us were hams and salamis and cake! So we hopped onto the bus towards the front (which turned out to be a good options) and started off to Biarritz, the resort holiday location for the French. Turns out that most of the french were actually heading in that direction today and we had a pretty big traffic issue getting to Biarritz. We arrived late but took a tour to the light house and then got dropped ...

Stayed in a friendly hostel run by Belgian volunteers in this interesting town. Have seen some pilgrims have to leave about this time, including Jane, the woman working in Barcelona. She had been very encouraging in my interest to perhaps teach English overseas. Iīve been thinking alot about why I turned down doing so with Jen in Hong Kong, and I think it had to do with both the distance and the location... more thinking to do.

Eve, a Catalan young woman from ...

... spanish women, doing a small portion of the camino. They told me that their husbands were driving their bags from place to place, crashing at the hotels, and usually would be accompanied by their children, although the young kids might walk part of the way as well. I appreciated all the effort GEorge and the other put in with me when I was struggling to converse with one of the women in spanish. It is quite incredible how many ways you can try and use a very limited vocabulary to ...

Last night, I was planning on taking an extra day to rest and recover in Pamplona. My blister was super bad at this point, and even though one day off the road would not really help it, the issue was that the pharmacies donīt open until after we leave for the day usually, and I would not be in a major town for a bit after that... i really needed to get some new remedies for this open wound on my right heel.

At about 7 something, I woke up to most of ...

... dancing around a small band playing in a public square. The band had no hat out, nor instrument case open, for money. Rather, they were just playing for the fun of it. So I joined in and danced a bit. It was a great time.

Next, as it was nearing 11 and I had really not gotten any sleep since midnight, I settled down under a nice big tree in a park with about 15 of my closest friends that I had never met for a little nap. I woke up about an hour ...

... beast.

Funny story: As I was leaving the bullring, I saw the matadors in a van and people around them trying to get autographs. I could see one of the matadors through the window and I gave him a wave and a smile that said "I just slept with your sister." And after about a second, he gave me a "whatīs up" head nod that says he was in a bad mood or he didnīt like me.

Update to house: We all donīt have keys to the house so we have to ...

... said, "Ah, so your off on a trip, eh?". That triggered a brief conversation - I explained that I was going to meet my Gallego (ie. from Galicia) dad's relatives in Pamplona, blah, blah, blah, but I'm Argentinian and we live in Australia, blah, blah, etc. It turned out that this man was from the same Argentine province as me (Buenos Aires, but from Mar del Plata - incidentally where my Pamplona cousins are from), his wife is Gallega, AND his brother lives in Melbourne ...

... behind horses. Initially I was pretty upset by this entire process and refused to watch and was taking offense to it all. After the 3rd bull i had grown insensitive and listened to explanations from locals as this being part of their culture and whatnot and started cheering along with everyone else. It was a festival which celebrates long traditions. We were all decked out in our red and pure what but in true spirit of San Fermin people throw food and drink in toward the ...

... mes cossin pour partir en apres midi. la ride pour aller la est tres court et les paysage sont vraiment fou parcequon passe a travers les pyrenee de lespagne. deja en partant je me fais offrir des drink par une bande de francais... pas tres bon ma ca fais passer le temps en arrivant la je me suis rendu conte que ca allais etre tough davoir des direction parceque ces bonde de gens partout pis yha pas grand monde qui parle sois le francais ou anglais ...

... although he is staying in the same hotel two rooms down, so it makes it a little uncomfortable passing someone, you just ditched, 6 times in the hallway(I have tears in my eyes I am laughing so hard right now) What do you sayŋ, "Uh ya sorry bout that". So now in Pamplona, where there is the Running of the Bulls in July. I can`t even imagine where or how this is done. The streets are very narrow. It is also one of the jumping off points for the Camino del Santiago...the ...