Day 11

We left Logorno at 6;45 in the pre dawn light.  We all felt pretty good this morning ...none of us were complaining about our feet!  It took a little while to exit the town.  After 6 km we stopped at a bakery and bought lunch and chocolate croissants and chocolate milk which we ate right away.  The weather was quite cool, which was great for walking.  It was so nice not to be sweating!  We were making really good time in cool weather.  It is supposed to be hot again for the next 2 days.  (30 degrees again!)  It was a little windy and terrain was generally flat, we went through a park and came across a guy who looked like he was one of the original pilgrims - he had a little stand where he had a stamp for our pilgrim passports and for a few euros you could have a cookie, an apple or a rock with a yellow arrow painted on it!  Yellow arrows are painted along the camino to show you "the way".  Soon we felt some spitting rain, but nothing to fuss about.  A little later the rain came a little bit more and we got our rain ponchos on as we didn´t want our packs to get soaked.  It didn´t last too long and after about 1 km we had them off again.
We had phoned ahead to a private albergue to book a room - the guy said he would hold the rooms till 3 pm....and to come to another address to get the key.  We arrived in Najera and it being a sizeable town we had trouble finding the 2 addresses.  Usually when we arrive in a new town/village we can find what we are looking for fairly quickly.....there is not much else but a bar and an aubergue!!  Anyway after much frustration we managed!  Our two rooms with 2 single beds each are pretty basic - 15 euros each.  We did our usual laundry and napped - waiting for hot water for showers.....which never came!  Good thing it was not a sweaty day!! 
We went out for another pilgrims dinner.....all we can seem to find!  a fairly basic 3 course meal.  The regular pilgrims show up......our friend Barry from Oz was there.  After dinner we hit the internet cafe for an hour.  Seems there is a festival going on here also....one of the town squares has a large bandstand set up and the whole town is out watching and listening to the boom boom boom......right beside our little aubergue!!!  Hopefully it won´t go on too long ......or the earplugs will be out. 
We were really pleased to make 30 km today......tomorrow we will stay in Santa Domingo!
Signed....Pilgrimsfour.
love to all our fans  xxx