Leaving Zubiri, we’re greeted with a gigantic concrete plant that is a blight on the countryside but the good people from Magna profess in multiple signs their commitment to the environment and the Camino. Blah!
After that, it’s once again quiet, dense and beautiful. Leo and I split up and as I was walking through a beautiful forested tunnel and my thoughts once again returned to ‘there’s always another hill’. As this was running through my mind, I turned a corner and after a long slight down hill decent, there was the first hill of the day which made me laugh, uncontrollably and with great joy.
People have said that on the Camino laughing and crying for no reason occurs regularly. I’ve experienced 1/2 of that already.
Leo and I reconnected somewhere along the way to Pamplona and then separated again. As I entered the city, I ran in to Donna filling her water and we walked and talked for a while soon to be joined by Leo.
One of my favorite pictures.
They knew I was meeting L&R in Pamplona so there were questions about our friendship, how we met, how long ago, etc. We entered the city through the Portal de Francia only to be greeted by Renee at a table with a glass of wine. A sight for sore eyes…I was happy to see Renee too.
We we all got settled, Leo and Donna found beds at and we already had beds at the Albergue Plaza Cathedral. Nice place, no A/C but they did laundry which I needed, badly.