Palacio De La Vega Dicastillo

Un día cualquiera en la oficina. Suena mi móvil y recibo un mensaje que dice "La selección para la beca en China ha sido resulta. Has sido seleccionado final, enhorabuena! Consulta tu mail". La respiración se me corto y volví a leer el mensaje. Era una noticia que esperaba desde hacía mucho tiempo con la misma ilusión que esperas la nota de selectividad, o la contratación a un puesto de trabajo que quieres. Y la verdad que me sent ...

This day we walked for about 21 kms. We passed through a number of villages. We passed over medieval bridges and one Roman bridge. Part of the way we walked on the remains of a 2000 year old Roman road.

We had no hotel booked in Estella (star in English) because the hotels we phoned did not answer. So we walked in on faith and found a great little, inexpensive hotel. It has not one ...

... 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 Logroño, 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 Logroño 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!

WOW- Pamplona is WILD Will write tomorrow - EXHAUSTED!!! OK well I just could NOT write last night- I was so freaking tired!!! WELLL where to start! I have like a THOUSAND stories- as you all know me my life is like a soap opera sometimes! Last night no exception!! SO I took the hour train to Barcelona- I realized that in like 36 hours I had been traveling for 14.5 of them!!! So I got to Barcelona and already feel like a pro going on the train!!! WAY easier ...

... puddle" or c) tripping over unidentifiable garbage. At one point after the running was over, we thought we would take a stroll in a supposedly beautiful little park in the city. We arrived to find trash everywhere. Where there was no trash, it was only because drunken revelers had cleared it away and were sleeping on the ground. Needless to say, Pamplona lost its appeal after the race, and we didn't want to spend the day at our campsite: it is jam packed with ...

... the mountains and it is around 15 degrees celcius. We wrap up in whatever we can. It didn´t matter that much because in order to see the running of the bulls we had to get up at 6 and it was already 2. We froze the night away in the park. I put as much clothes on as I could and wrapped my head in a pair of pants to act as a hat, I used the legs to cover my face as a scarf. We woke up at 6 and we were all freezing. I didn´t realize how cold I was until I couldn´t stop shivering.

... the past twenty years or so there has been a steep increase in numbers as people realise that this is actually a pretty cheap holiday in Spain and that there is a really very good infrastructure of Albergues to sleep in for a handful of euro a night. They aren´t pretty but they more or less work and a range of restaurants have also sprung up to serve the hungry peregriño. Many of the villiages you wander through were started to serve the camino and to ...

... time was to find Krista a bank at which her US ATM card would be accepted. No luck, no thank you, no way, were the results on her end, but to Krista's credit, she did manage successfully to get directions in Spanish from a bank employee. (Funny story: her bank said, just look for an ATM with the Honor, Star, and Plus symbols, and you'll be fine. This seemed like a relatively easy task until after several days of casually checking every ATM we saw, Krista called her bank. Their ...