We spent two nights in Pamplona, to rest the feet, and also we didn't want to rush through such a magnificent city. The Running of the Bulls happens during the Festival of San Fermin, in July, so we missed it. Which is unfortunate cause I totally would have done it.... maybe. Fortunately, the girls got to run with the statues of the people running with the bulls. It's just as fun and slightly safer.
We got a really cool tour of the Plaza de Toros, the stadium for the Bull Fights, and the end of the Running of the Bulls.
One of my kids has a little bit more flare than the other.
We had our Pinxos (Basque Tapas) at Ernest Hemmingway's favorite cafe. I downloaded Old Man and the Sea, thinking it would be a good way to spend the evening reading with the girls in
Pamplona.... it wasn't. We ended up watching cartoons in Spanish.
We had big plans for a video in front of Alto del Perdón - Monumento Peregrino. It's a pretty famous Camino stop near Pamplona, you might remember it from the movie The Way. But it is also on top of a really steep part of the trail, and a thunderstorm rolled in. I don't do thunderstorms when hiking, so instead another equally concerned Scotsman took our photo, and we all busted it down the mountain. When we got to the bottom, the thunderstorm passed, and I tried to get everyone to climb back up. They apparently don't do backtracks for photos. There is only One Way on The Way, on to Santiago.
Day 7.
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