calling-in from cizur

Puente la Reina ended up being a great place to stay. We left the refuge later than we had hoped. Basically, leaving after 7am is bad news as you end up being in the scorching sun all day. Most people seem to leave at 6-7am in the morning and stop at the next stop by 3pm or so. We really felt the effects of the sun today - nausia, sun rashes, diziness. But nothing a coke can´t take away at the end of the day, so we just pressed on. At lunch, we met another German gal, who sat next to us. Like many, she is doing the walk on her own and just bumping into the most fascinating people. We decided we wanted to pray for her and also for other people on our hearts. Yesterday, we focued more on missions and new ways of using business and missions together - and used that as a basis for prayer. Today was more for breakthrough for the people we met and know in Geneva. The views today were outstanding and the sky yet again cristal clear. Bright blue just like the past few days. We stopped here in Cizur Major. According to our book it was a winner. And that it turned out to be. The internet terminal happens to be in our room (a bad thing?) and there is even a garden with a little fountain. Luxury dormitory! Our goal was Pamplona, but we did a slight detour for at least 5km. It took a lot of mental energy to guess the way back - even more than the physical exercise of the Walk. We discovered today, that we are excellent uphill mountain walkers - we conversed easily for 4km of steep uphill at around a heart rate of 160. Downhill was hard on the knees. But again the trek taught us a bit more about ourselves and gave us some spectacular views over Pamplona. That´s where we´re headed tomorrow. Either we take a bus to the coast from there or carry on a little while. We´ll see. In the meantime, we shall just hobble to the nearest food place we can compensate for the 4000 lost calories.