Day nine of our walk and we’ve arrived at our home for the night after 18 kms to a place called Viana. We passed lots of vineyards and olive groves, some crops we can’t identify but may be lentils as we have had a lot of delicious lentil soup. We mostly eat in the hostels for an extra 10 euros everyone sits down at the same time, tonight it’s 6.30 and I could eat a horse. All this fresh air makes you hungry. I’ve been enjoying not having to think of what ...

Cold first thing this morning as we left Zariquiegui for Zirauqui(don’t ask me to pronounce them) 21 kms. Today we walked up to the steel sculptures high on the hill. A tour bus arrived and passengers got off and set off walking down hill, their opportunity to do some of the Camino. The trail followed a rough path down to a village where we had coffee and apple tart only 3 euros 30. Prices of m. teas and lunches are cheaper than N.Z and a bed in a hostel or alb...

Day five of our Camino across Spain and all is going well. We had some unusual weather e.g. huge hailstones today luckily it was just five minutes from the little village where we are staying but hard enough to get very wet! We had a long day to get to Pamplona so decided to stay in a hotel for a good sleep. Woke up very refreshed and didn’t set off this morning till 12 pm for 11 kms to Zariquiegui. Hostels have been fine so far - clean and good food. Everyone ...