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Camino France Day 3 Zubiri to Pamplona
Sleepless in Zubiri
While I do recommend the Alburgue not much sleep was had and the time to leave was welcoming.
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
I stepped out into the rain with Derek and Cyril and we began the walk towardsPamplona. The sky had really opened up and it was pouring and once again, ensuring your good footing with an issue so that you didn’t harm yourself on the sharp rocks. There was water sitting on the trail, and it reminded me eerily of Georgia last January. There’s no way to soft pedal this it was an uneventful walk over mostly good terrain in a pouring rain. I did not get my phone out but once or twice until I got to Pamplona and the rain had subsided a bit. At one point I had seen Noah and Nick in the distance making good time. I had lent Noah my rain cover to use on his pack. It is a good thing that he had it that day. Noah returned it when we met up in Pamplona and started out the next day.
Finally, Pamplona
The approach into Pamplona is a long sprawl of commercial retail and residential. When in the city the architecture stood out and the churches and cathedrals were breathtaking. I found my hotel in the city center right near the Plaza de Toros, the bull fighting arena. They used to televise such things in the USA and I always cheered for the bull. A line from Ernest Hemingway’s “In Our Time” has stuck with me long past remembering my literature professor’s name. The quote is “and the bull died badly”. After dropping my pack I went for a little sightseeing. A person could spend a two week vacation seeing Pamplona and the surrounding area.
A walk past the plaza, people watching, and snapping a few pictures was about all my body could take. So in full disclosure I will not try to stretch this out like a report on a book I never read. My takeaway for the day is simple. I stepped onto the Camino Frances with new friends in the morning and fulfilled a dream of visiting Pamplona in the afternoon. That is a good day!
Final Thoughts
“you can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises
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Comments 1
Very apt closing quote especially with the posting of that picture of you in front of a store with your name! I took a similar picture in front of store in Ireland bearing my maiden name.