love At last it going today ... the Night in Roncesvalles was fine. .. the hostel is run by Dutch volunteers who take turns to spend 4-6 weeks a year there to serve the pilgrims. One of the Hospitaleros I mean, to have known of two years, according to super nice and friendly was the greeting. The Hospitaleros have fairly established strict rules ... so you have to be to 22.00 clock in the hostel, otherwise you stand in front of closed doors. Point of 22.00 clock then silenced first the church music, then the light goes out .... today then tomorrow at 5:50 clock rang music again, at 6.00 clock went to the giant chandelier ... and we slept under one of whom came to meet us ;-) The rather, because we already very away early wanted to be able to take the upcoming Pyrenaeenabstieg alone in attack. Clock at 6.50 we left, even in nearly total darkness, the hostel and made for us. Three mountains today should wait for us, of which the Alto Erro was 500 m rise of the most demanding. But that was fine with a corresponding adjusted rate. Then followed a total of about 20 km of the descent to Zubiri infamous not for nothing ... the way there, you can almost no longer call path, it is more of a collection of large stones and slates. This is true in the shins and then we took them about 3 km longer than the 20 in Zubiri before ... we could have stayed, but we decided to drive the milestone of our previous Camino, Larrasoaña. We arrived there to clock 14.15, after about 7.5 hours of hiking. We were way out of bad memories in 2008. Today we realized our level of training and could do a very good "hit". The hostel is quite cluttered. One can not deny that we are in a Holy Year, currently we estimate that about 100 pilgrims per day on the road. This number is multiplied sure with the summer months ahead. Noteworthy is that, contrary to our experience of 2008, a few fellow pilgrims Santiago have as a goal. Most get off .... after we have written these lines in Burgos and Leon, we will go straight to Julie and Bill and a few Irishmen in a bar adjacent to the Menu del Peregrino ... I look forward to our first Sopa de Ajo ( garlic soup) ... hmmm ... tomorrow, we go back out early ... around 10:00 clock we will pass through Pamplona and stop after 22 km of our day's stage in Cizur Menor in the hostel a very nice lady. The day after tomorrow it will get challenging again ... we pass the Alto Perdon and make our way to Puente la Reina. The weather should be great all week ... if super is, as now, 25 degrees and bright sunshine ... we are saying that ;-)
of the day:
It is strange to travel to the future while in the past. together
Pilgergruesse Many in the home
Meli and Horst
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