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Published: April 24th 2014
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April 23, 2014
Day 18
The way of St James
http://www.caminosantiagodecompostela.com Kirsten again woke up first, showered and packed up the car. I’m still rolling around in bed. I thought we were on vacation. I have the Go Go, all you have to do is shower and get dressed. Uh where are my clothes. I’ve laid out what you need. Gee’s can I get another 30 minutes. NO! It’s 7:15 and Momma and Daddy are in the car waiting. WHAT! We drove to the other hotel and had breakfast with all the teenagers. They were having fun, oh to be young again. All I wanted was another 30 minutes.
We walked around the village JACA went into the cathedral, very nice. I think I’m enjoying the cathedrals in Spain more than Italy. They are very basic, humbling, makes me want to kneel and pray. I don’t know what I want to pray for but I just feel like kneeling and praying.
After the cathedral visit we’re walking around and all the stores are closed. Kirsten finds out that JACA is having and additional Holiday, go figure. Ok I’m thinking Spain needs to take over and
run the world. They have Holidays and Holy Holidays; in addition they have Rioja wine. I’m there ok… Forget this corporate bullshit.
On a side note Opa keeps saying OLA to everyone waking by. Some answer some look at him strangely.
Now this is not a muted “Ola” but a Footy “OLA”!!! If you know what I mean?
Either I, Kirsten or Oma are standing by him and were just smiling.
We decide to leave JACA and drive up to ConFrac right on the boarder of Spain and France to see old village. I believe this is where the pilgrims from France cross into Spain on their way to SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELIA.
We see pilgrims walking the way; I have read and will be researching this more. I think this is something I will be consider doing. I don’t know why but it’s reaching out to me in a weird way.
From CONFRAC we drove to the Monastery SAN JUAN DE LA PENA it’s built into the wall of a mountain. Yea the guy who founded it was walking west and became tired so he stopped and created a monastery. Everyone bought it and
he’s famous, go figure. Like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Bill Darden, Kirsten Vaughan… I thought I would slip that in.
After visiting San Juan at his monastery I was hungry so after begging Kirsten and threating to go on a strike and not read the map she stopped.
Basically Opa needed a break so she said ok. Either way I got something to eat.
It was a fabulous lunch. We were parked up high over looking the Pyrenees Mountains. It was a very restful and thought-provoking lunch, as had a tailgate lunch we ate our cheese, ham and drank our VINO.
After lunch we continued our way toward Estella Spain, this is another stop for the pilgrims. Again we saw many pilgrims making their way to SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELIA.
We circled the centrum 3-4 times and settled on the Hotel Yerri. It’s located on Yerri Avenue, go figure. The room was nice; we had WIFI and a better breakfast than our last accommodation. After everyone was settled into our room we took a short nap and then drove a short distance to the Centrum and had dinner with all the locals. OLA!!!!
Kirsten is in bed fast asleep, sorry for my grammar errors.
Good night.
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