After leaving the main part of Estela, I start walking with a man that turns out to be the hospitalero at the albergue in Ayegui. We had been wondering if it was open, and I'm slightly confused as he says it's open when he is there, but he has just returned from Santiago this morning, so I'm guessing it wasn't open last night. Walk on to the Bodega Irache. Have some wine from the fountain, I think it might be 8 or 8:30 am, then fill my jug with water. As I'm leaving the monastery, I see a couple of woodpeckers flying from tree to tree. Then in the distant cliffs, it looks as if there is a building built into the cliff-face, but it's so far away, I can't tell for sure. Even though I ate breakfast at the albergue, I'm hungry. Partially, it's that I know there is no where to eat until Villamayor Monjardin, if I am lucky, and then not again until Los Arcos. Villamayor Monjardin to Los Arcos is also one of my least favorite stretches of the Camino. I have no good reason for feeling this way. It's a beautiful area, I suppose it's the meandering for the 12 kms.
I drink too much water and coffee and by the time I get to a resting spot (a clearing with places to sit) near Los Arcos, I have to pee so bad that I throw off my pack and run into some rushes off of the path. Looking for a secluded spot, I come across bleached out bones strewn about. Creeps me out, though they appear to have been here for a while, from shepherds? wolves? don't know. Jump back out and throw on pack and get moving to Los Arcos. I'm close but probably another 15-30 minutes away.
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