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Day 7 - Camino Francés : Pamplona to Puente La Reina · WCBH

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  Good morning. It's day seven. We're back on the path after our rest day yesterday in Pamploma.
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  Today 23, 24 kilometers walking from Pamploma to Puente Lorena.
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  We stayed in the old city in Pamploma. That wasn't by plan or design.
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  It was just where the accommodation happened to be, but we're really thankful for that.
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  We arrived smack bang in the middle of the old city beautiful now we don't seem
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  to make beautiful things like that anymore we know we're more about functionality
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  and maximizing space etc,
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  but the city was was very beautiful to explore a little bit of water on the
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  ground today a little bit of mud underfoot because last night it did rain,
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  it's not raining now hasn't rained on us yet while we're walking but there's some big dark,
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  gray clouds hanging low above fingers crossed
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  that stays away we've got wet weather gear i haven't had to use it but it is
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  a bit muddy underfoot pamploma the old city's fantastic well worth a visit you
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  could stay there unwind spend a number of days there actually when we got there
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  i didn't feel like I needed a rest day.
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  Was keen to keep going but we we booked it in any way one so we could explore pamploma and two,
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  just so we could manage our bodies knowing that
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  we probably our bodies needed a rest day even if we felt like we didn't so that
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  was good walking out of pamploma you go from the old into the new city and then
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  those sort of outer suburbs extend for a fair while since leaving saint john
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  we We haven't actually been in a big town or city.
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  And Plame is bigger than St. John. Most of the towns that we've been in have
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  been part of the street, a couple of houses, maybe a shop, a supermercado, cafe bar.
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  That's really about it. Some are even smaller than that, just a collection of
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  houses. There's nothing there that you walk straight past.
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  Our footwear that we've got on. Well, actually, I should talk about what we
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  did last time when Sherilyn and I walked the five days from Asaria to Santiago.
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  We wore hiking boots. That was a disaster in terms of the footwear.
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  My feet had never been so sore.
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  The boots, we thought we were doing the right thing. They were heavy,
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  really heavy, contributed to the fatigue.
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  And we didn't really wear them in like we should have. and so not only did we
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  have the weight the feet were just so sore from them,
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  But we thought we were doing the right thing, but we learned from that.
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  Also on that, those five days we went straight into big distances.
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  You know, 20, 25 plus kilometre days.
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  This time we've started with less Ks and we're building up. Much smarter this time, I think.
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  But the shoes that we've got now are trail shoes rather than hiking boots. So a lot lighter.
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  We've got good grip on them. I believe they've got a rock plate in them.
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  So a piece of, I think it's the metal that runs between the shoe and the sole
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  that just limits the, how much you can feel the stones underneath.
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  They've got great grip. They're light. They look like a jogger.
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  Sherilyn's is a wide toe box. I didn't even know that these things even existed,
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  but most shoes come to a point at the front and sort of squeeze your toes in.
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  This doesn't. It allows your toes to display.
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  Chan's been wearing his as his school shoes, I suppose, for the last six months, wearing them in.
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  I've been wearing mine from about September onwards as my work shoes,
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  and each afternoon we've been walking before we came away, So,
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  well and truly, they're worn in,
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  we're used to them, and the weight of the shoe is not contributing to the fatigue.
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  So, footwear-wise, doing a whole lot better than last time.
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  About halfway on our journey today, walking through farms. These are agricultural farms.
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  Not too sure what crop they're growing. It's just the start of the spring,
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  So everything is fairly low to the ground at the moment, but it's certainly
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  sprouting and growing very green.
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  A lot of windmills. It's a very early area. We've just climbed actually quite a long hill.
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  And there's a tremendous line of windmills there.
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  And it's from horizon through to horizon, from what we can see, a huge number of them.
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  The cloud's very low today. It's almost like you could reach up and touch it.
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  I'm still overcast, still no rain, haven't drinks it yet.
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  A lot of brambles, bramble bushes, I think they are, or hedges on the side.
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  A sawny sort of growth that creates natural fence line.
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  Just the countryside's beautiful. Rolling, rolling green hills,
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  mountains, clouds, very picturesque.
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  Breeze is brisk, breezes back today. That's not too bad, not as strong as it was the other day.
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  We're just about at the summit of this hill or mountain that we're going up.
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  This is the one that has the wind turbines all along the crest of it.
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  It's about as close as I've ever been to a windmill, wind turbine,
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  I should say, the electricity generating ones.
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  And yes, you can hear a bit of a dull noise that comes from them.
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  It's not overly loud. I suppose we're still probably a couple of hundred metres
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  away from them, but it does sound a little bit like a plane might be off in
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  the distance and coming.
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  But there's a lot of them. They run right along the crest of this mountain range.
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  Imagine they'd be generating a fair amount of power.
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  Not overly ugly, but there's a lot of them and they do run across the mountain range.
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  But yes, there is a bit of a dull noise that comes from them.
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  These ones are spinning very fast, and I imagine it's always fairly windy up
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  here, so probably a lot of electricity that's been generated.
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  Coming up to the peak of that last mountain, it started spitting,
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  so it wasn't the greatest place for us to stop and put our rain jackets on, but we did that anyway.
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  It didn't quite start raining. It just was spitting for a while.
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  We stopped for lunch and decided to make the call to put our rain pants on as
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  well because there looks to be some wet weather chasing us over the top of that mountain,
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  still in our rear vision mirror.
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  So we're walking along with our right pants on and our rain jackets on just as a precaution.
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  Hasn't started raining yet and hopefully it stays off.
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  Big day today, about 24 kilometres and I think we're about seven or eight kilometres to go.
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  So let's hope we can beat the weather to our destination.
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  One of the things that we've seen a lot of is cherry blossoms,
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  or what we believe to be cherry blossoms.
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  So that iconic cherry blossom that you would expect to see in Japan at a certain time of the year.
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  We've seen so many white, pink, the white and pink, particularly coming out of Pamploma.
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  There was a boulevard there with a lot of cherry blossoms.
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  But really all the way along today and
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  some parts of the other days we've seen a lot of the cherry blossoms and you're
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  not going to stiff breeze blows through and some of the petals start to blow
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  off the tree that's that's very pretty just coming through a section that's
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  also got some olive trees as well to our left.
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  Today has been agricultural, it's been crops, where previous days has been more livestock.
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  So we're here, Puenta Lorena, we've done our 24 kilometres today.
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  The town is much smaller than Pamploma, but bigger than some of the towns that
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  we've walked through today.
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  Very similar to many towns that we've gone through today, stone streets,
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  beautiful big stone buildings.
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  You almost couldn't find our hotel you know
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  it's just a it's a big door in a stone wall and
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  you go through up a couple of stairs and then suddenly you end up
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  in this beautifully renovated a house we've got
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  our our room and bathroom and all those sorts of
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  things the renovations are really nice i've done
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  about 35 000 steps today jan has done
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  about 40 000 cheryl and start about the same as
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  me i hope 38 she says so yeah
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  we've racked up the kilometers today probably one of the longer days that we
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  will do on the Camino unless we start changing our mud map plan but we're here
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  we're going to rest first then we might head out and explore the town pick up
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  some dinner come back and rest for tomorrow that's day seven done.