Day 3: Larrasoaña - Cizur Menor

Today we left Larrasoaña expecting rain, but the weather was fine all day and the sun shined through the clouds now and then. Yesterday at the local minimarket we were told that the river Arga had flooded and that it would be impossible to walk some parts of the way. So the general advice was to keep to the national road until Pamplona (about 15km). Luckily, by the next day the water level had dropped enough to allow us to avoid most of this busy main road.




After all the woods and mountains, we were arriving at Pamplona, the first city in our way. When we were preparing to take the next photo, this dog appeared and insisted on being in the picture, despite his owner's callings.


We liked Pamplona very much. It reminded me of my beloved Madrid, but with a more clean look and an atmosphere that exhaled peace and quite, a very rare quality in a city.





At lunch we decided to stop at a tapas bar. Two "cañas", a couple of mini-"bocadillos" and some "patatas bravas" and we were good to go the last 5km until Cizur Menor.


Albergue Maribel is the most expensive we've experienced yet (10€ each) but with excellent conditions: we have a access to a kitchen, a tv, a washing machine (we have washed almost all our clothes) and a wonderful WiFi connection, which we've been expecting for a long time now!


I don't know when we will have access to the internet again, but we'll update the blog as soon as possible ;)