euph´ & leens in estella

We wanted to walk more today but the sun is so strong that we didn´t feel like walking more than 8 hours. It was quite obvious when we stopped talking from sun stroke. We ended up in this new village called Estella (!!) and figured it was the Pamplona yuppies who live here. All the cars are new and the gas station was blarring out this random spanish metal trash music. It made for quite a change from the rural villages we have seen the whole way. Sore from the Rioja wine competition, the little village of Irache built a wine fountain for the "pilgrims" to drink from. It was right at the end of our trip, so we filled an empty water bottle and had a gorgeous apero on our arrival in the village. This makes for our 3rd free apéro! (In Logroño, we were welcomed with a bottle of 2001 Rioja) This refuge costs 5.50 Euros - ah, the prices seem to be going up. But this time, breakfast is included (costing 1.50 EUR). Though this is the road James took to spread the Gospel to the Spanish villages, people dont seem all that excited about God here. In fact, the more we head East, the grumpier the people seem to get. The people on the Road look like they are in pain and really not enjoying it. We have found this is so much fun to give our day to God, let him lead (because we dont have the easy signage to find our way as we are going backwards), and let him slow our daily pace down. Ok, we´re off to chill, let our sunburns die down and re-read James chapter 3.