Month: April 2026

Seen as we approached Cirauqui. We see these all the time. Most of them seem to be full. Many of them have the tall thin cypress trees around them.

We are walking through picturesque countryside with various crops. We had just walked up to a hill town and were walking down when we took this.

Miles walked: 8.9

Flights of stairs climbed equivalent per my watch: 63 (i.e., some up and down but not too bad)

One of those miles we walked today was from our albergue to the restaurant where we had lunch, and back. So, a relatively short distance covered today. It’s always tricky finding towns just the right distance apart. We aim for 8 miles give or take one or two.

We’ve gotten so far behind in our blogging. The past few days have been especially hectic. Last night, as mentioned, we stayed in an albergue room with 8 sleepers (including one pretty bad snorer). I’ll describe the albergue in my April 15 post. Which means I’ll probably be posting things in backwards order for the next few posts. There wasn’t a good place to blog at the albergue and no bar in the town to go to for that. There was a large table to sit at the albergue but it was filled with friendly and talkative pilgrims so no chance to blog there.

I didn’t sleep well last night. The snorer was in the bunk above me, a nice woman from northern California. Then I worried that maybe I would snore, too, although Charlie has never complained. He says I only make “sleepy noises” but I’m never sure if he’s just being nice to me. Then at midnight I remembered I’d forgotten to arrange the bag transfer for this morning. I tried to do it online on my phone in my bed (quietly) but they wouldn’t accept it so late.

The bag transfer story has a happy ending. There was another bag in the waiting area to be shipped by Jacotrans, the company we’ve been using, so we were able to leave a Jacotrans envelope on our bag with money in it and instructions and they took our bag when they came for the other person’s bag. Whew!

More about today in photos:

No, not technical problems . Lack of time to blog! We’re staying in a real albergue tonight. Bunk beds, communal dinner and all. Very, I mean very, chatty pilgrims.

I see lots of interesting signs along the way.

Post by Charlie and Wynette:

9.1. miles, up 546 feet, down 1363 feet, six hours on the trail

We started in Roncesvalles on our 2013 Camino so we were anxious to see how much we remembered. Quite a lot it turned out although lots of details had been forgotten, as is the way with memory.  Will just talk about the day with photos.

Seems like it would be pretty hard but more power to them. The baby looks no more than two or three months old.

Lots of pilgrims have a shell on their pack but usually just one. Personally having things swinging off my pack bothers me so I have never done it.

Usually a stone is placed to remember or honor someone.