Queen for the day!
Day 5 Puente la Reina to Estella Miles today: 14.8 Total miles: 76.1 Elevation gain: 1331’ Descent: 906’ Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating: there really is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin Our hiking Day began not long after sunrise as we walked the short distance across the village of Puente la Reina (pop 2500) to see the famous “Queen’s Bridge” in the early morning light. Here is a short bit about this famous bridge that has been standing for almost 1000 years: “This bridge over the river Arga was built in the 11th century, seemingly at the initiative of a queen, who could well have been Doña Mayor de Castilla, the wife of Sancho el Mayor, or perhaps Lady Stephanie, the wife of García Nájera. The aim of its construction was to make it easier for pilgrims on the Road to Santiago to leave the town after going along the Rúa Mayor (main street). It is...