I have demonstrated an inability to blog every day, or even to count the days. We’ll see how I do with the weeks. Today I feel like a real pilgrim as I am limping like many others. One of my small blisters is flourishing, and my baby toe hurts! I may need to give it a break. It is an example of a Camino phenomenon – blisters that have blisters – a complex structure of layers of skin and fluid-filled spaces. It’s rather like a soggy phyllo pastry.

Tonight I hobbled into Navarrette and decided I couldn’t make it past a little hotel where I have a private room with bath! Towels! Sheets!

The town is quite small so I soon found my family, who are staying in a couple of different albergues and we ate dinner together. We all agreed that today was tedious and tiring.