First night where I really slept well. Airplugs are great, so not much snoring is getting through - and sleeping bag has shown its value. The hostels do handout covers for the madress and pillow, but you have to bring your own sleeping bag. Lots of people only have a mumie silk sleeping bag that is really cold, so having a dun based sleeping bag in addition to the mumie has been so good. I got up at 6 and after packing started to walk around 6:40, before sun really come up. I just got 200 meters and found an open bakery where I got my latte, freshly pressed orange juice and a baguette.
This morning was the first for me without company and walking alone was nice. But who told that Spain was warm? Only 5 degrees in the morning…
It did not take long before I catched up to a german girl Lara, the youngest pilgrem untill now, only 19 years old. We talked for a couple of kilometers before splitting.
First kilometers where in Pamplona, and quite some traffic.
It was nice to hit a real trail again, and with an accent the view became excellent.
I took a coffee after 2 hours where many other pilgrems also stopped.
After coffee I talked to the first danish on the camino - a danish power woman that had walked 40 km a day. We walked together a couple of km, and for the first time I found one that I had a bit struggle to keep up with. Otherwise it is the other way around, I am walking faster than most - like to get the puls up and walk fast - and then take longer breaks.
At 13:30 and after 24 km I ended up at the hostel, where I got checked in, got my bed, took a shower and washed my clothes. And funny enough, Pedro, Merel, and Cornel all checked in, so the four of us that met in the train and walked the first day together were now at the same place again.
We thought Corne was way ahead, but apparently not. He had slept in his tent two days in a row and took a short day today. It is interesting how you meet the same people over and over again - and it is really nice since you build really good connections. It becomes more and more clear to me that the camino is as much about meeting people and building relationships as it is to walk alone and think. We are all on the same quest, but with different purposes of walking, and it is so interesting to discuss our “why” and reflect. People are very open and the deep conversations make you think in other ways than just being in your own mind.
I am sitting in the sun in the garden to the hostel and writing this post, and in a couple of hours we will go for a pilgrem dinner in the town - joining 7 pilgrems all together, the four of us, Colin the Irishman, and two more dutch people.
And a small video of the great view.