The Deal With Water
Water in a cup. Not very useful when hiking.
Day 6, Puente la Reina to Estella
This is what happens when you don’t understand the language, and plain water comes in an easy to stash and go portable bottle, but you missed that bubble water doesn’t and that’s what you asked for. Either that or they’re messing with you because they don’t like your hair.
Why aren’t we packing our own water?
I actually have a 2 liter camel back bladder in my backpack. But unlike the Via di Francesco, there is a town around every corner and rather than add even more weight to a 18+ pound backpack, it’s more economical on a weight and space level to buy as I go. But why didn’t I bring an actual water bottle to carry? Let me answer it this way. Why didn’t I bring a night time mask to block out third party electronic lights? Why didn’t I bring a portable collapsible cup because there is no such thing as cups in albergues and taking pills and trying to mix amino acids in your hand to drink is ridiculous? Why oh why didn’t I bring a tennis ball to roll my feet out with? And most pressing of all, why didn’t I bring some sort of modesty night wear in case I got stuck in an albergue room with seven guys? You know, you can’t anticipate everything.
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Gnome-ing it: jumping in front of Sandy Brown’s lens right as he shoots, imitating the Travelocity Gnome.
Puente la Reina in Río Arga. The water was so still, and this is an optical illusion. See photo below for clarification
Puente la Reina, right side up.
Crushing it.
The shell is the symbol of the Cammino de Santiago, and it is suppored to point the way to Santiago de Compostela. Soooo, which way is this pointing? Ya, whoever made and posted signs couldn’t agree, or remember, either.
We stayed in a hotel tonight, but the star was the hotel food. Peas with ham and poached egg. House Rose.
Pork tenderloin with potato frites and mild Roquefort sauce, and I must say, the pork was perfectly cooked.
First dessert. Lemon sorbet served alla Mr Misty style, aka more on the liquid side and enjoyed with a straw. Very refreshing.
Second dessert. Yeowzers. Ice cream “cake”. Layered ice cream with thin sheets of chocolate, drizzled in caramel.
Profile of that crazy ice cream cake.