{"id":710,"date":"2026-04-19T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=710"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:00:15","slug":"april-14-travel-day-pamplona-to-uterga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/19\/april-14-travel-day-pamplona-to-uterga\/","title":{"rendered":"April 14: Travel day, Pamplona to Uterga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miles walked: 2.25 (around Pamplona mostly)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floors of stairs climbed: 4, but just in our albergue in Uterga. (Seemed like more than that!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m writing this post on April 19, five days later. But it seems like weeks ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We needed more time in Pamplona to finish our errands and I was still feeling a little poorly from the bug I had caught so we decided to make it a leisurely day. We spent the morning in Pamplona and then took a taxi to Uterga. (Since we pre-reserved all our nightly accommodations, we didn’t have the easy option of staying in Pamplona an extra day and then walking to Uterga the next day. Downside of pre-reserving: little flexibility.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hemingway spent a lot of time in Pamplona and that might be why Pamplona is known in the wider world. Pamplona is also famous for the Running of the Bulls, the Festival of San Ferm\u00edn, which happens every July. It’s a pretty city with plenty to do and see. But we didn’t do that this time. We have been here twice before so didn’t leave time for sightseeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were ready to get out of the city actually and were glad to get to tiny two-albergue town Uterga around noon. We thought our private room in Albergue Casa Bazt\u00e1n would be nice since it cost 60 euros and got 4.6 Google stars. It was also the only choice we had. The room shocked us. Large but no window, no place to sit. It was clean but very very old and shabby. We spent most of the afternoon having lunch and then hanging out in the bar across the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, I ended up enjoying our stay at Casa Bazt\u00e1n. It had a certain charm. The simple communal pilgrim’s dinner they served us was quite good and it was fun sharing it with other pilgrims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fields of mustard seen from taxi on ride from Pamplona to Uterga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Entrance to Casa Bazt\u00e1n. A big heavy door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reception area in Casa Bazt\u00e1n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dining room\/bar where we had the communal meal. A delicious fresh salad, choice of roast chicken or fish or pork, fried eggs on rice, ice cream, wine, water, bread.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miles walked: 2.25 (around Pamplona mostly) Floors of stairs climbed: 4, but just in our albergue in Uterga. (Seemed like more than that!) I’m writing this post on April 19, five days later. But it seems like weeks ago! We needed more time in Pamplona to finish our errands and I was still feeling a … Continue reading “April 14: Travel day, Pamplona to Uterga”<\/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-710","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\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}