After yesterday’s travails it seemed best to make today a “taxi day”. I have linked up with two other American women (Arkansas and Denver) so we shared a cab that the hotel was kind enough to find. Zubiri is completely booked out; the only open spots are at the municipal Alburgue, which does not take reservations. An hour before opening, there are already 30 in the queue. So those crowds from SJPP are still around, and I expect will continue to be.
The distance from Burgete to Zubiri may only be 18km, all allegedly downhill, but on the uncommonly long taxi right over, along it’s many, many switchbacks, it was readily apparent that a taxi was the right choice for today.
Lunch at the bar of the street was substantial: huge salad, steak frites, ice cream. Dinner at the Alburgue next door was even better: large salad, vegetable cream soup, cod in tomato sauce with pimento, assortment dessert. With wine, all very plentiful. Good conversation with Maine, Portland, DC and Berlin.
Lodging: Alburgue Secunda Etapa, Zubiri
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