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Nàjera

Well, 28km turns out to be quite manageable. To be honest it's been a good day in terms of physical achievement - the longest daily distance yet. And when Navarette, after 12km, came in sight I actually thought 'what, already' rather than 'at last'!
The walk as far as Navarette was mainly solo, after that in a couple of groups, ending up walking with George again.
Nàjera turns out to have no water in the taps today - it's being fixed, apparently. The management of the room I'd booked provided a number of bottles of water to help.   Ever tried a shower with bottled water?
It does have plenty of water arriving from the sky, starting about half an hour after I got here, and accompanied by thunder.  And there was a cycle race going through at 4pm - which I just missed, but got a picture of the excitement...
Then I met up again with George and Denise, and we had a sort of late lunch / early dinner.   An interesting addition to the tapas was a dish involving roast eggs and eels (well, elvers really). Then the rain started again, so we parted - Denise is resting tomorrow and I hope she may catch up with me later; George is going on and we may well end up walking together again.

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