Camino 9 - Puente La Reina

We left the wonderful albergue we stayed at last night. Blessings to Charo y Jose who tend the alburgue.  

We walked downhill to Arre and Pamplona.  Honestly I could spend a week in this area. In Arre approaching 9:00 a.m. there were school children and parents bustling about.  Lovely!

This is the entrance to the walled city.  We crossed the drawbridge entering.  

So much to say you'll have to ask me in person. 

After crossing the city we headed toward the next ridge.  On the way there was a little village that we had originally planned to stop at. In a shop we found proper trekking poles. I set my wooden stick that had conveyed me thus far by a fountain and bought trekking poles for Elizabeth and myself. 

Thus equipped we decided to go over the ridge to the next town that had alburgues.  

"Completo" means full and that is what we found in Uterga.

A kind senora at the second bar/alburgue made several phone calls and found us a room 6,5km down the road at Zubi XXI.  After a great meal we are now settling down to sleep.

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My accountant tells me this was a 32.3 km day.  ;)