Hierro as iron as said en español. I have now been hiking for 9 days – 10 if you include the prologue walk up to Orisson from St Jean Pied de Port. I’ve never walked this much in my life. 227 kilometres in 9 days. But there are still 565km to Santiago. Reaching Burgos in next couple of days is my next target.
For today’s post I’m going to chart the journey so far in pictorial form using ‘my’ medium of drain covers and various Camino decoration. Please make this fun for me by voting for your favourite by commenting. I’ll choose a random winner and send you a little Camino souvenir from Burgos at the weekend! Game On! Enjoy…
Day 1 St Jean Pied de Port to Roncesvalles
Day 2 Roncesvalles to Zubiri
Day 3 Zubiri to Pamplona
Day 4 Pamplona to Mañeru
Day 5 Mañeru to Villamayor de Monjardin
Day 6 Villamayor de Monjardin to Viana
Day 7 Viana to Logroño
Day 8 Logroño to Najera
Day 9 Najera to Grañon
As for today’s walk … the departure from Najera was accompanied by rumble of thunder and flashes of lightning … which sure as 7 follows 6 … were followed by a pretty torrential downpour which turned the brown soil trail to a sludgy clay muck, it also created storm runoff that looked like the chocolate river in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The vines really looked like they were enjoying this little first day of August drink. Then suddenly the vines were gone. Replaced by field after field of already harvested cereal crops – wheat, I assume. As I walked through Santa Domingo de Calzada and past one of it’s two Paradores I recalled the worst ‘cheese sandwich ever’ incident on my previous visit to the town. My albergue tonight is in the charming hilltop village of Grañon, which of course meant a 3km hill to get here! The reward however is a 28 bed (4 room) albergue with just 4 peregrinos so I have a room to myself.
Buenos noches.
My Long Walk 2019 