We are starting to feel the rush for rooms!  It seems there is a major car race this weekend in Logrono (our stop for Sunday). Add to that a week-long festival in Los Arcos (tomorrow’s stop), and everything is booked!  Making a long story short, we were blessed with meeting a woman who got on the phone and just stared calling everyone she knew … and she knew a lot of people, and now we have rooms.  So, Willow, to your question: yes, we do know how far we’re going … at least when we are unsure of room availability.

Numbers: This is our 6th day of walking.  Today, we covered just under 15 miles. Our total is: 80 miles.  Our longest day: 22 miles.

On leaving Puente la Reina, the first thing you do is cross the Puente la Reina! Seems one of the queens, several centuries ago, had the bridge built for the safety of the pilgrims.

The views on today’s hike were awesome. We are now 2 mountain ridges west of Pamplona. Here was the view looking back east this morning:

And now, looking west:

One quick bit of Peregrino background. The Peregrino does 2 things of first importance on arriving at the new location. The first is to clean up!  6 -10 hours of trail dust is pretty gnarly.  The second is to wash their clothes so that there is enough time for them to dry. Most Peregrinos only have 2 sets of clothes, so keeping the backup set clean is really important. I snapped this picture of the clothes line at one of the hostels in Puente la Reina.

For those of us in hotel rooms, we wash our clothes in the sink, then hang them about in our rooms like the Beverley Hillbillies!

Hasta Manana!