Very refreshed after a great nights sleep and a good meal last night! Great to chat with other pilgrims again.

Lovely breakfast and really pleasant and helpful people in the alburgue.

Set off on our walk through the town and past pleasant countryside, on very stiff legs! The downhill walk yesterday took its toll on my thighs and they are very stiff this morning!

The route followed the main road quite a lot, and was quite industrial, which I found very noisy and distracting. There were the usual ups and downs and the track was very stony. Not one of my favourite walks today, mainly due to the road noise, but there were some great bits as well.

Fabulous lunch stop at a pilgrim cafe by the river with the best spinach tortilla ever! Met up with some fellow walkers again and met others.

Onwards towards Pamplona, 3 of us got split from the others and lost our way a bit and ended up walking an extra 4 kms ! It was mainly by the river, so not unpleasant.

Met up again at Cafe Iruna in Pamplona , where the other 4 were already enjoying wine and patata bravas - a very welcome welcome!

The height of luxury tonight as we have two rooms of 3 each and a single at our disposal, with each room having its own bathroom! Beds have sheets and duvets - so no sleep pods or sleeping bags! We all had a chill out , showers / baths before going into Pamplona for an evening meal again in cafe Iruna.

The cafe is famous as the place where Hemingway propped up the bar, and Pamplona is the place where he lived and wrote. There is a bar in the cafe where his statue stands. The cafe itself is an amazing Art Deco building with beautiful Art Deco features.

The square where the cafe stands is one of many bars, restaurants and cafes around the square with a bandstand in the middle. It’s a real buzzy place. The famous Pamplona cathedral is just off the square and absolutely chockablock with ornate , gilded statues and decorations- complete overload of wealth! The narrow streets are endowed with small shops, beauty parlours and Camino shops, most of which were closed as it was Easter Monday, and are home to the famous July bull run.

It’s an interesting place and maybe one to come back to explore at a later date.