10 de marzo, 2009I get up early and drag all of my things out into the foyer so as not to disturb anyone else. The Korean woman is also up and packing. It takes me forever to get up and out the door in the morning along the Camino. I think it's because I have too much in my bag, also, that I have to take everything out to put my sleeping bag in the bottom of the bag (because I have everything inside a plastic garbage sack inside my pack in case of rain. This works quite well.) At any rate, after going down to have breakfast, the usual cafe con leche, melba toast and/or bread and/or crackers with margarine and jam, and by the time I am ready to leave, I am one of the last out the door. It is still a bit dark out. In the summer, I think you have to leave between 4:30 (!) and 7:30 am.
I walk out of the old part of Estella, past the gas station (where I've had a second cafe con leche and something to eat on both previous Caminos, while waiting for more daylight-photo is from 2007) and around the supermarket where I meet another older peregrino I have not seen before. He turns out to be the hospitalero for the albergue in Ayegui. I ask if the albergue was open. I had heard that the other Canadian women had planned on staying there, he said that it usually is when he is around, but then he also tells me that he is just now returning from Santiago de Compostela, so I remain unclear if it was open or not. We walk together until we reach the albergue and say good-bye. It is a beautiful, bright, sunny yet chilly, morning.
Soon I reach the wine fountain at Irache. There are a couple of other peregrinos there, and a fair amount of wine in the tap (sometimes, it's just a drip.) I have a drink, and then fill my bottle with water. As I'm leaving the Monastery grounds, I spy a couple of woodpeckers, and far off in the distance, what apears to be a building of some sort carved into the cliffs. I never do figure out if it is a trick of my eyes or if it's actually there.
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