Today was a better day, we started the walk through parklands, and past a very good graffiti mural, on through more parklands with swans, and very large fish (carp) in the water. The path varied over rolling hills and through vineyards. We stopped for lunch in Navarette, and watched the Spanish equivalent of the the Tour de France, La Vuelta road race go through town. At the same time a wedding was under way, with the groom being “escorted” to the alter by a motorcycle gang (all) wearing weird fluffy animal helmets. The bride arrived later and couldn’t cross the road as the police had blocked the road for the cycle race to pass. After lunch we pressed on, the path meandered out of town through some unattractive semi industrial areas and into more vineyards.
Not much shade, and the weather changed and started to lightly rain. We used our built in pack covers for the first time. Then it cleared up and became hot and humid again.
The Hostel Hospira was our final destination, and is a nice surprise. The lady running it is very nice, speaks English, and was apologetic about our room. I don’t know why, we have a 3 bed room to ourselves, aircon, tv, free wifi. It might have something to do with the shower/bathroom which had a ceiling height of well under 2 metres, even Janice has to sit down to shower. But this is the Camino, everything is different to what we normally expect. A couple of things I have learnt so far, 1) the camino will provide, 2) expect your norms to be challenged.
Walking through vineyards
Starting to look a little worse for wear.
Fish (carp) and lots of them
Red wine grapes, almost ready for picking.
Russ and Jan's Camino 
Selfies are scary, I was watching bike race briefly, Orica Green team are doing really well
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