{"id":56249,"date":"2013-04-02T08:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-forests-of-navarre\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:41:43","slug":"the-forests-of-navarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/the-forests-of-navarre\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forests of Navarre"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my arrival in Roncesvalles, I quickly made friends with a young woman from Germany, who had the bunk above mine. <\/p>\n

She had walked through the snows from Saint Jean, and she helped me get oriented to albergue life. So Linda and I shared the pilgrim’s menu: first course of a wonderful potato soup (possibly they had once been introduced to a leek), second course fresh local trout.<\/p>\n

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Afterwards we joined several dozen other pilgrims at the Collegiate church for Mass and the pilgrim’s blessing.<\/p>\n

The church is a lovely gothic gem.<\/p>\n

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In the morning, we were all woken by an energetic rendition of “Wake up Little Susie”, courtesy of a wandering minstrel and his guitar.<\/p>\n

And then the walk began!<\/p>\n

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It was drizzling a bit, but as Linda and I had breakfast in Burguete 2.5km on, the skies opened up. She decided she’d rather have another cup of cafe con leche, so we said our goodbyes and I broke out my poncho and pushed on.<\/p>\n

I soon met up with Eamon from NZ and Cliff from MASS. We walked and talked through the forests of Navarre.<\/p>\n

The villages were beautiful, and the countryside between them alternated between wild hills, meadows with sheep and horses, and the forests.<\/p>\n

There are many photos on the Flickr link to the left.<\/p>\n

The Camino itself was a morass of mud.<\/p>\n

The three of us lunched at Biskarreta, where I discovered the wonder that is the bocadilla jambon.<\/p>\n

Uphill and down through the mud we walked. The sun came out and away went the ponchos.<\/p>\n

We have checked into the Albergue Zaldiko in Zubiri, and will soon set out in search of the local eatery.<\/p>\n

21.5km today.<\/p>\n

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