Day 5

May 18th

Zarikiegi - Eunate - Cirauqui - 23.4km

I woke today feeling great and happy. I am now realizing what is the camino and feeling the camino : )

I feel that the camino so far is a meeting, with yourself, people of many cultures and faiths, words and thoughts. We meet people, we lose people and later on we meet again. We left Zarikiegi early at 5:00 am with Bent and Suzanne. It was a good walk, not hot and pretty empty. Later on me and Kevin took a path to Eunate Church and Suzanne and Bent went the other way. Very pretty church, full of energy, we were able to enter and make a prayer. I really felt like a pilgrim today : ))) They had an albergue beside the church and the people that works there are volunteers. They treat you like a person : D A really nice person! We had some sausage sandwich there and kept on going. For our surprise walking through Puente de La Reina we saw Bruce (Our American friend from day1). It was so nice to see that he got his luggage and is doing the camino. He was going to the albergue and we had some km to go. Gave him a sweet good bye and went away until our body said no more at Cirauqui. We enter in an albergue and there was Suzanne again : ) The people of this albergue were sooo nice!!! Met Maria Luiza (Brazilian from Rio), Francois (Belgium), Peter (Germany) and Cristine (France). We had a delicious meal with them, laughing and talking. It was great to leave very early, we are going to do this again tomorrow.

Monica