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I started in villanua just for time reasons, the train got me in around 1pm and I wanted to not arrive too late. There were bars in villanua and the village after i thought.Ungawawa, Your photos are gorgeous! A question or two: Since you took the train from Zaragoza, why start at Villanua instead of Canfranc Estacion? Where are the"plenty of bars" between Villanua and Jaca? I admit that I walked the alternate route, not the main Camino route.
Vacajoe,The new albergue in Canfranc (4km south of Confranc Estacion) should be opening in August, so hopefully the lack of facilities along this route will be changing in the coming years. My wife and I will be hospitaleros there in November, so stop in and say hello!
Thanks for your updates and pics. Take it easy tomorrow to protect your knee.day 3
For the first time ever in my camino experiences the hospitaleros walked with us this morning. It was a sunny day and they joined us for the first 7-8 km out of Arres before turning around. We all left together and did the steep climb down to ground level. From there the path wound through pretty hills and farmland.
About half way along the route is the town of Artiedes, which you have to climb up steeply again to reach. It was the only bar stop for the day though, so worth doing.
The second half of the day was a much less enjoyable walk over tarmac through gravel quarries, ending in a prickly and overgrown old forest. Much of the last few kilometres seemed to be designed to frustrate you, taking tricky “scenic” paths where a more direct one would have been more welcome for me!
Arrived late afternoon at the beautiful old fort which now forms the albergue in Ruesta. Run now by a communist party I’m told, it seemed an unlikely place to base a political party, but the albergue was lovely, with a delightful terrace and garden to sit out in. The hosts were warm and helpful and the food of a high quality, and we were lucky enough to have the weather for eating outside together. The pilgrims there the same ones as before. Bed, dinner menu, wine and a couple of small beers came to around 30 euros.
A storm with dramatic lightning took hold after dark and we watched dramatic flashes over the hills and reservoir below from a safe distance.
Tomorrow is the one day with no albergue, so the organised one of our pilgrim family has booked us all into shared rooms in a pension in Sanguesa instead, cost 18,-. So long as you fall in with a group of nice other pilgrims, I can imagine you can always share accommodation for this stage until the albergue is back up and running, hopefully in July.
Got a bit of knee pain for the first time ever on a camino. Hoping it will heal quickly.
Pics to follow..
Hmm i’m not sure, they might not have actually been quarries but they reminded me of it, grey dusty rock and tarmac roads. But today we saw real quarries on the way to Eunate@Ungawawa , I am wondering if what you are referring to as gravel quarries is actually fringes of the Bardenas Reales or badlands which dominate landscape further to the south?
all the dogs i’ve encountered have been sweet and friendly!A quick question... have you had many problems with dogs? A lady walking a few days behind was almost bitten today... and she says there are a lot of dogs on the trail (she's on the French side still)?
(ps wonderful photos!)
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all the dogs i’ve encountered have been sweet and friendly!
Hope that you're well, Sparrow in Texas! Fond memories of our too-brief tea together on the promenade in 'Chicken Town', long ago.Ungawawa, I know that we all can understand time issues! A bit of advice for anyone who has not yet walked the Aragones. Do allow your self plenty of time for this route. I took 11 days to walk the paths that a majority of people take only 6 days for. There was so much to see and do! ... Approaching Villanua there are the Witches Caves ...
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