{"id":585,"date":"2026-04-17T16:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=585"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:49:28","slug":"april-17-walking-day-villatuerta-to-villamayor-de-monjardin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/17\/april-17-walking-day-villatuerta-to-villamayor-de-monjardin\/","title":{"rendered":"April 17: Walking Day, Villatuerta to Villamayor de Monjardin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miles walked: 9.66<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flights of stairs climbed: 101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only about 1\/10 of a mile walk to and from lunch place so most of that 9.66 was on the trail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We really enjoyed our stay in Villatuerta last night in a beautiful private room with two good beds and a window! Slept well, got up early for a simple but nutritious breakfast (coffee, boiled egg, yoghurt, toast) that had been left for us in the albergue. Chatted at breakfast with a man from Phoenix who complained quite a bit about Trump while we ate. (He was a republican.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got on the trail by 7:15. We’ve been trying to leave early in the cool mornings so we don’t have to walk as much in the afternoon sun. It’s been in the mid 70s and very sunny the past few days. The sun is quite hot when you are in it with no shade, especially going uphill. We are glad for the partly cloudy forecast tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a pretty walk through green rolling hills. Tonight we are staying in Casa Rural Montedeio. We stayed here in 2013 and 2014. Worth repeating! It is now run by a family from the Netherlands. We will have dinner tonight with the family and any other guests who opt to dine with them. 17 euros each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting an early start. Mornings are cool enough to require ear covers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Standing by itself in a field near the Camino path. Abandoned monastery built in the X or XI century. Now hermitage of San Miguel. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Irache wine fountain for pilgrims. The handle on the left dispenses wine, the one on the right dispenses water. We met this delightful young Spanish man from Andalucia there. He was friendly and asked us where we were from. We said United States. He asked “where in United States”. We said Albuquerque, New Mexico. His eyes lit up and he said “Breaking Bad!”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yes, I got some wine. Just a sip. Too early in the day. And not their best wine, I’m sure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice views on the walk. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A great bar to take a break, get out of the sun, listen to classic rock music. They had a juke box booming. CCR, Beatles, Lennon (Imagine), Elvis, whoever it was who did Johnny B Good. This was the third or fourth bar we’ve been in in the last two or three days that has been playing classic American rock music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We’ve spotted a number of Palestine flags hanging from people’s balconies along the way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Now we are blogging on the patio of this casa rural.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miles walked: 9.66 Flights of stairs climbed: 101 Only about 1\/10 of a mile walk to and from lunch place so most of that 9.66 was on the trail. We really enjoyed our stay in Villatuerta last night in a beautiful private room with two good beds and a window! Slept well, got up early … Continue reading “April 17: Walking Day, Villatuerta to Villamayor de Monjardin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}