Camino Part 1 is over

Boo hoo. I stopped walking in Logrono to go to San Sebastian with Seamus & Mary. The walk to Logrono from Viana was one of the easiest so far & only took us about 3 hours, including the half hour we spent at Felisa´s Border Post. Mary & I got the famous ¨Higos Agua y Amor¨ stamp for our passport, but Seamus who was ahead of us walked on by as he was trying to shake some Italians. We told him that when he comes back in September, he´ll have to walk back to Felisa´s to get the stamp. Seamus insists he will never do the Camino again, but you know what happens when you say ¨never¨right?

Yesterday, we took the bus to San Sebastian & realized the bus was retracing in about an hour what it took us almost a week to cover on foot! Look--there´s Villamayor! Look, there´s Irache!! Look, pilgrims!!! It was weird to realize that we could be seen from the highway even though we weren´t near it or on it.

San Sebastian is a nice old town, full of interesting bars, restaurants, & shops. It is one of the stops on the Camino del Norte (I think; someone will correct me if I¨m wrong), so we saw a few peregrinos. The weather turned very nasty, however, so instead of walking the beach or up to the top of a hill to get a better view of San Sebastian, we simply walked around the old quarter & visited the Aquarium. Of course, today it was nice & sunny when we left.

I am now in Pamplona & I hope that Seamus & Mary got to Biarritz in time for their flight home to Dublin. It´s weird walking the streets of Pamplona, seeing pilgrims arriving in Pamplona & on their way to Cizur Menor or further. I´m at the Hotel Eslava & it´s quite nice. I have room 42, a small single, but it´s next to 40 & 41, 2 double rooms with full baths & small balconies (for drying laundry, hint hint). My room is 37 Euro per night & the place has an elevator. Later, I´m going to collect my laundry & during siesta, I plan to walk the streets where they hold the Running of the Bulls.