I wasn´t able to find an internet yesterday and was unable to post anything.
For the past couple of days I have been walking in the company of Javier, Francoise and Lisa. We have been having a great time, acting like children, laughing and playing stupid tricks on each other. This has been really good for me and I feel myself becoming wonderfully relaxed. We have formed a little ´Camino family´. I am the grandfather, Javier is my younger brother, Francoise is the mother, and Lisa is the young daughter. She is the same age as Claire and is always dropping things along the way.
We all left Estella after lunch on Tuesday and walked just 9kms to Villamayor de Monjardin where we stayed in a hostel run by a Dutch group called Oasis. They were very nice and we had a home-cooked meal which was very welcome. It was a sort of vegetable curry with rice for the main course, after a starter of salad. The pudding was blueberry yoghurt and a cherry on top. The cherries are in season in Spain at the moment and are really tasty. We bought a bagfull at lunchtime today. Of course, there was the usual bottle of wine.
Talking of wine, on the way to Villamayor we passed the Fuente del Vino, a fountain which gives wine instead of water. We laughed like mad when a car pulled up and filled up a 2 litre bottle. The fountain is supposed to be for the benefit of pilgrims.
After dinner we all attended a meditation, and this was followed by a cup of mint tea.
This morning we headed off and had lunch at Los Arcos. Most people stopped off there, but we continued to Torres de Rio. Tomorrow Logroño will be our destination.
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