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Published: September 5th 2017
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Ayegui to Torres del Rio:
We left the albergue in Ayegui right at 6:30, without breakfast, and stopped at the edge of town for water and a pastry. Since we'd already seen, and sampled the free wine from the famous Irache wine fountain, we passed it by and walked another 5 or 6 kilometers to Azqueta for our breakfast stop. I got my usual tortilla and coffee, and after a brief break we got back on the trail. The climb we'd dreaded so much, to Villamayor de Monjardin, turned out to be almost a joke. Yes, it was pretty continuously uphill, but not that steep or that long. In fact, we were through the town and out the other side before we knew it.
On our way to Los Arcos, about 9 kilometers ahead, with no towns in between, we met a German lady. She was travelling alone, with a cute dog named Aiko. They had spent the last 3 nights in a tent on the Camino, since few albergues allow dogs. After talking a bit during a short break, we started walking together, but she soon told us to go ahead, since we were walking faster than she wanted.
Before we reached Los Arcos, the long empty stretch was broken by a welcoming double food truck which we couldn't pass up. After a leisurely coffe, with my shoes off of course, we were on sidewalk way to Los Arcos again.
We reached Los Arcos around 1:30 found a nice sidewalk cafe that had an interesting selection of food for lunch. I ordered tortellini with spinach, which was quite tasty, and finished it. I also ordered an ice cream dish, which I ended up cancelling since I was completely full. While we ate lunch, Raresh called ahead to our final destination today, Torres del Rio, to make reservations. The first place was closed, so we ended up reserving 3 beds at the Albergue Casa Mariel.
As we left Los Arcos, we found out they were having a professional bicycle race between Los Arcos and Logrono and we walked parallel to part of the course. It was a pretty rough 7 kilometers to our final stop of the day. We finally reached the little town of Sansol, which basically abuts Torres del Rio, but still had to take a trail down before climbing into Torres del Rio. Before reaching
our albergue, we noticed a very cool looking albergue named Albergue San Andres, that was very modern and... wait for it... A small swimming pool with a waterfall! We considered giving up our reservation, but San Andres was full. It turned out the same guy owns both places, and for 2 euros we could use the pool. Also, our pilgrims dinner was also there.
We checked in and settled our gear, then I bought a cold Coke and started to work on this blog. I soon felt spent, so I grabbed a fresh bottle of water with my Emergen-C, chugged down about half of it, and took a short nap. I guess I hadn't been drinking enough and was running on empty. After my nap, I soaked my feet in the pool for a bit, then it was time for dinner. I had chick pea soup, salmon and fries, and a nice caramel pudding for dessert.
Tomorrow I think we are shooting for Logrono, at only 20 kilometers.
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