Los Arcos….Los bloody ARKos….we needed an Ark yesterday …IT BUCKETED and to make the journey more fun I discovered that my water proof boots…aren’t. We started off in the morning in drizzle and headed out through the town of Estella and got to the village of Bodega where the kind vignerons provide those walking on the Camino with a red wind fountain (see picture above) – some folk even fill they canteens! The price clearly for drinking at 8.00am is that the rain gods dump on you! As we started the first climb of the day it opened up and kept bucketing for the better part of two hours. So to the placid accompanying sounds of squelch and squish, the next 5 hours and 21 km was passed. Actually we walked through probably the most scenic rural countryside we have been through so far. In spite of the rain, everyone you pass still wishes you a Buen Camino.
I decided to put a hoof on and managed to make cracking time into Los Arcos and commenced the process of stripping off to dry off as the rest of the group that we have adopted made into the square – which is the place that we always meet. We have discovered that you wear as little as possible under rain gear because you basically become a walking sauna….and so today is one of our longer hauls at 29km and rain is predicted for the next three days….hmmm sock drying is becoming a feature of the day….