Day 4
Puente La Reina- Villamayor de Monjardin 31Km
Out at 6am as usual but this time with the luxury of a coffe for breakfast. Crossed the beautiful 12th century bridge over the Rio Agra as we left town. Feet are now quite sore. As well as multiple blisters I have developed cracks under two toes on my right foot.
There was a pattern to todays walk- every town on the route was built on top of a hill that could be seen for miles around, on top of that town stood the church and the cCamino had to pass by the front door of that church. Day turned out to be very warm and sunny, so it was just a matter of topping up with water at every chance.
Decided to break out and treat ourselves to a roll and coffee in Estella but before we could agree on a cafe we had exited the town. All was not lost, relief presented itself a mere 3.5Km away in Irache. Here, thanks to the generosity of the local winery is a free wine fountain alongside the water fountain. Under protest I sampled the wine!!!- just for the photographs I'll have you know. The wine was surprisingly not bad at all.
Shortly after we bumped into the first P wearing Jesus attire, it turned out later, that as well as being fluent in many languages, this new age traveller had a smattering of Irish.Villamayor, of course, was on top of a hill-650m. Veiws of the surrounding countryside were quite impressive.
Booked into the first albergue we encountered- it was only while I was showering that Dave gave it close inspection,-building was a shed and it was pretty delapidated. Thankfully this was not our resting place for the night. I made my apologies, gave a donation for use of the shower and quickly left.
The other albergue,run by a Dutch religious society, turned out to be quite ok. The P menu offered here was an improvement on our previous meals. Apart from Dave and myself the rest of the guests stayed on fo a 2 hour prayer meeting after dinner. We just wanted to boost the local economy and wash away the pain