24SEP: Pamplona to uterga 15k

After the worst night's sleep, I dreamt I was choking, I baled early onto the darkened streets of the old sector. I found a bakery, literally glowing gold with produce, grabbed coffee and a sweet bread.

After 1k, back into modern society, traffic, maze of four laned streets. I found no farmaci open at this hour. Leaving town to see mountains whipped by low cloud, & big fields of stubble.

This was taken from in such a field after eating breadstick, goat cheese & tuna, watching the farmer turn the stubble in.

Tonight I read a good quote from "Wind in the Willows":-

" the best part of a holiday, is perhaps not so much in resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working". 

We had to claim a ridge lined with wind generators. Hellishly steep, should width, hard work. But there was a nice Camino Icon surprise at the top.

The way down was treachorous: steep, washed out, with round boulders up to 150mm all over. Avoiding an ankle strain was part luck & skill.

Coming into Uterga was a relief. For a few days I'd been having lower back pain &  kind of cramps in my thighs. I flipped my bum bag off & all symptoms ceased. My stride opens, I have no pain.