Tengo un alma y está cargada
- Tito Muñoz
- Tito Muñoz
(Graffiti in Muruarte de Reta)
Puente la Reina! Now we're on the Camino Frances, which is what most people mean when they talk about the Camino di Santiago, not realising that all roads lead not only to Rome but to Santiago de Compostela too - if you go the other way.
Hundreds of pilgrims set out every day on the Camino Frances, and they are well catered-to by the towns along the Way. Before even entering Puente la Reina we found an albergue where we can have a room with a private bathroom and even a television for twelve euros a head, as well as a three-course all-you-can-eat dinner, complete with wine, for fourteen... I get the feeling life will be so much easier from now on!
Maybe the Camino di Santiago is the Club Med, after all!
Of course we did walk thirty kilometres to get here from Monreal.
Hundreds of pilgrims set out every day on the Camino Frances, and they are well catered-to by the towns along the Way. Before even entering Puente la Reina we found an albergue where we can have a room with a private bathroom and even a television for twelve euros a head, as well as a three-course all-you-can-eat dinner, complete with wine, for fourteen... I get the feeling life will be so much easier from now on!
Maybe the Camino di Santiago is the Club Med, after all!
Of course we did walk thirty kilometres to get here from Monreal.
But what a contrast between yesterday and today! From a remote windswept village with a single shop to a hub of pilgrim life, streets full of people from all over the world in brightly coloured backpacks and jackets, shops selling everything one might possibly have forgotten to pack or left behind on a previous stop, and cafés and restaurants vying for the walkers' trade.
We stopped along the way to visit the twelfth-century Romanesque hermitage Eremita de Santa Maria de Eunate.
We stopped along the way to visit the twelfth-century Romanesque hermitage Eremita de Santa Maria de Eunate.
It was here that we began to see other pilgrims. Used to knowing everyone on the Way, at first we mistook them for companions of ours from the Camino Aragones, but we soon realised we were coming up to the confluence of the Camino Frances, and, compared to the loneliness of the past three weeks, pilgrims seemed to be everywhere!
We've made it to Puente la Reina! End of the Camino Aragones (165 km from the border at Col de Somport to Puente la Reina).
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| I still think of him as Saint Jacques, but I guess he should be Sant'Iago from now on! |
Monreal - Puente la Reina 30 km
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