Hotel Marixa Vitoria-Gasteiz

Back in Spain! The drive from Bordeaux to the first pit stop before we got to Porto was pretty uneventful. The views were nice and it was a fun change in the scenery going from France to Spain. The towns on the border are kind of funny because they all look very Spanish from the architecture to the people but everything is ...

We arrived to Logroņo in June 29th at 15h, as we did the first day of our pilgrimage, we decided to walk a few kms to Navarrete, we missed so much that landscapes!!! like having homesick from the Camino or something like that!
This part of the pilgrimage is algo ...

... cities in the Camino, we visited the whole city in a few hours cuz is a little bit small. We finished our first walking week in this city so we made a farewell party in c/Laurel, the most famous street in Logroņo, many people get drunk that day... i don't know how they felt for walking the day after that party...
We will come back in my next free week to continue the camino from Logroņo to Burgos...

This stage has no difficulties, the landscapes begin to change, we left the woods behind us and we begin to see beatiful fields til we reach our destination.

In Los Arcos I don't recommend the main refuge... when we were there we saw lots of bugs, an unpleasant smell, a small kitchen... the village is not very impressive but the main church (worth to see)

We'll remember this stage for the amount of mud we accumulated in our legs. It was an awkward day, at least this stage was pretty easy but the beginning (a huge climb with a lot of mud).

We founded the main refuge in Estella newly renovated, clean, with all the facilities... a nice place where we met people from Italy, Germany and New Zealand , we decided to cook together a huge tipical spanish omelet!!! We also took a walk around beatiful Estella despite of the pain in our legs!

Wednesday 13th May



I've had an awesome past couple of days, the cycling's been tough but I've enjoyed every minute of it, and the weather's been great, having said that there has just been a fairly ominous rumble of thunder in the distance, think I'll keep my mouth shut about the weather from now on. I'm writing this having just had a feast of pasta and sauce for my dinner, the two German guys I shared a picnic table with were very ...

... giorni... ieri e' stato difficilissimo. Mi sono alzata al mattino con un dolore atroce al ginocchio dopo una notte d'inferno sempre per colpa sua, e ho iniziato a camminare che avevo dolori ovunque, ma dolori quelli seri. e quando il male e' cosi' tanto la testa altro che scorrazzare sulla spiaggia, se ne stava li mogia mogia con la coda fra le gambe e le orecchie basse, ogni neurone occupato nello sforzo di mettere una gamba davanti ...

Hello / Hola ! Here we are, getting ready for the big trip that starts pretty soon. Both of us are enjoying a nice week in Vitoria with lots of friends and family. It is always great to come back home. Aqui estamos, preparando el gran viaje que comienza muy pronto. Los dos estamos disfrutando de una buena semana con muchos amigos y familia. Siempre esta bien regresar a casa.

Yesterday I walked from Cizur Menor to Puenta la Reina, about 23km via a little detour to visit the beautiful church at Eunate. It was another good day for walking, warm with clouds to protect me from the full heat of the sun and I was really glad of them, climbing over 'windmill hill' where all the wind turbines mark the top of the ridge. Two people who had stayed with me at the albergue in Cizur somehow managed to get lost on their way out of town and walked for 2 hours ...

... so fun!!!) When we eventually headed back to camp on the buses I was pretty much purple... so much for new clean clothes!!! 7 July 2006 - Thursday Next morning was an early shift through to Pamplona for the first running of the bulls. I was happily sitting on the bus waiting listening to our tour guide when a guy sitting on the other side of the bus started retching and vomiting into a bag... NOW... I canNOT, repeat NOT handle things like ...