June 6, 2013

Happy Birthday, Miriam! Today, we left Navarette around 9:40 a.m. and arrived in Nájera at 1:40 p.m., a short day, P.T.L.! It started raining as we arrived, so we ate a Pilgrim’s menu at Los Parrales, and the restaurant owner suggested an albergue nearby—Puerta de Nájera Albergue—that  had one private room with bath, so we went there and stayed the night.  We visited the Monastery of Santa María La Real in the afternoon, and went to evening Mass at La Santa Cruz, where the priest and congregation had a special blessing at the end of Mass, with ringing the Pilgrim’s Bell three times, for God, Mary, and St. James, and getting a special stamp in our credential.

                When we returned to our albergue, we ate the bread, cheese, fruit and wine we’d bought in the kitchen with fellow pilgrims.  When the “lights out” came at 10:00 p.m., things got noticeably quieter.  Buenas noches!

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