A reasonably easy walk today but I managed to make it longer by leaving my phone on the table in the bar where I had breakfast. When I realised I had was about three kilometers out of town. but luckily a young Basque guy picked it up and was waiting for some worried looking person walking the other way. Some lovely country and pretty villages along the way. Had a great paella for lunch and into the Albergue in Estella by 2. This is a nice like life style - I can see how people get hooked on it. I heard of a guy who has done 17 caminos is somewhere around, and there is a wonderful 80 year old french lady who I see every day doughtly plugging away. The human dimension is special.
Estella is a lovely town. Beautiful and interesting churches - but why so many?
There is a wonderful church portal which is geometric patterns rather than figures, and which shows the Arabic influence. And a wonderful portal up the hill with beautiful almost naive carvings - people getting killed in all sorts of inventive ways all graphically portrayed.
Estella is a nice place. To get WiFi I've been sitting in a bar in the Plaza for an hour - now siesta is over it has gone from deserted to buzzing.
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