day 4--puerta de reina or something

Today was easily the best day yet. We started the day in Pamplona and walked through the city early in the morning. I´m finally getting my routine down, so I was able to get moving more quickly. We walked by the university and directly out into the countryside, such a refreshing change from the sprawling ugly suburbs one encounters when leaving an American city. The walk was absolutely beautiful. For much of the day we were going up the side of a hill/mountain, trekking through nasty, sloppy mud on a windy path that was bordered by fields of yellow wildflowers with farmland and mountains and villages and Pamplona stretching out into the distance. It was gorgeous. There was just no way to photograph it effectively. There are lots of wildflowers everywhere--poppies, yellow ones, purple ones, blue ones. Everything is lush and green.

I spent most of day walking alone, which was nice. Time to reflect, contemplate. It´s just so beautiful.