Septermber 18 Navarrete to Najera 18 km / 11 miles
September 17 Viana to Navarrete 23 km / 14 miles
September 16 Meddy Day! Meddy Day! – San Sol
A few days into my walk, I get a text with a
photo from Dana Ballentine, who has walked three Caminos and is planning her fourth. She’s my Camino mentor and lives close to me in Kansas. The photo is of a fellow she met on the Le Puy Camino in France who evidently started the same route I’m on a couple of days behind me. She also sent him a photo of me. On one of my many photo pauses, I hear a man behind me- Meddy Day! Meddy Day! Lo and behold, there was the guy whose photo I’ve been carrying for nearly a week!
September 15 Estella to Los Arcos 22 km / 14 miles
September 14 – Puente la Reina to Estella 22 km / 14 miles
September 13 Pamplona to Puente La Reina 24 km / 15 miles
September 12 Pamplona Rest Day
September 11 Larrasoana to Pamplona 16.5 km / 10 miles
[Note: Some of these posts, including this one, are being edited by husband John back in Kansas City. Putting these things together in a meaningful way is somewhat difficult using only a phone. John has offered to serve as an editor as Mary continues to hike, take pictures, do laundry, eat, and all the rest… He is making an attempt to put the posts in chronological order, so you may see some new posts further down the page.]
The map to the right outlines the hike taken from Casa Elita, in Larrasoana, Spain to Pamplona, a little over 15 kilometers.
To convert kilometers to miles, multiply by 5/8ths – gets you close enough…
The plan is to spend a couple of days at the Hotel Tres Reyes (Three Kings) and do some sight seeing. This town was a hang-out of Ernest Hemingway in the early 1920s where he wrote, The Sun Also Rises.
The path to the hotel passes the Plaza de Toros de Pamplona where bulls fights still occur.