{"id":851,"date":"2026-04-23T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=851"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:14:25","slug":"april-23-walking-day-navarrete-to-najara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/23\/april-23-walking-day-navarrete-to-najara\/","title":{"rendered":"April 23: Walking Day, Navarrete to N\u00e1jara."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Miles walked: 10.7 (a little over a mile of that has been around N\u00e1jara).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total miles walked to date: 115.8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flights of stairs climbed (equivalence): only 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were on the trail by a little before 7:00 this morning. The earliest we’ve gotten out, I think. Trying to beat the heat. It’s been unseasonably warm here. Highs in the 80s. Very hot in the sun. However, it wasn’t quite so hot today (76) and there was a brisk wind so we were actually kind of cold. No complaints!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We met a nice couple from Ottawa, Canada, today who matched our pace pretty well. We ended up eating breakfast together in Ventosa, about 4 miles from the beginning of the walk. They were excited to learn about ordering fried eggs and toast. (It took us quite a while of camino-ing to realize we could ask for things not advertised on any menu. They hadn’t yet realized that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, it was a mostly typical day on the Camino: up, walk, breakfast, walk, get to our town, find our hotel, be told it’s too early to check in but we can leave our pack, go to find a place for lunch, eat a nice menu del dia, go back to the hotel to check in, get to our room, unpack a bit, rest a bit, shower, rest some more (maybe even take a nap), set up pack transfer for tomorrow, go out for a stroll, look for a bar and have a light supper snack, blog. Soon we’ll go to bed, hopefully sleep well, and start it again tomorrow. Good thing we like this routine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two out-of-routine things did happened. (1) I’ve gotten a pretty bad blister on my little toe. So a visit to a farmacia for some mole skin to pad it (recommendation from my new Canadian friend as we were commiserating about our blisters). And (2) Charlie’s neat foldable hat blew off his head while we were crossing a bridge and it fell into the river. Irretrievable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One more photo of where we stayed last night in Navarrete. Charlie walking up the steps to our albergue after we were done with blogging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Leaving Navarette this morning. We had a cat join us for a while.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Where we ate eggs and toast in Ventosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We’ve already walked alongside miles of vineyards. La Rioja is famous for its wines. And often when we see vineyards, nearby will be an olive grove. In the above photo, grapes on the right, olives on the left, and pilgrims piling up in the middle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Can you spot Charlie’s hat? It doesn’t look irretrievable in this photo but there was quite a bit of water flowing on both sides of the river. He dropped it near a little island in the mddle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Poor little hat seen from above through telephoto lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miles walked: 10.7 (a little over a mile of that has been around N\u00e1jara). Total miles walked to date: 115.8 Flights of stairs climbed (equivalence): only 22 We were on the trail by a little before 7:00 this morning. The earliest we’ve gotten out, I think. Trying to beat the heat. It’s been unseasonably warm … Continue reading “April 23: Walking Day, Navarrete to N\u00e1jara.”<\/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-851","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\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}