Had a great free day in Logrono.  Ready to hit The Way tomorrow, with duck tape on the ball of my feet and soles of my feet, and moleskin with two toe sleeves on my toes!!  Bradley had told me about Benzoin and I brought some with me which has been great.
we left Maneru we went to Estella and stayed at a Capuchin monastery where we stayed in a three person room and saw Michelle from Germany and two couples we met from New Zealand.  Fun to exchange stories!  For supper one of the dessert choices they had translated into English as "a mess of fruit".  Delicious fruit cocktail.
Yesterday walked from Estella to Los Arcos (for those following with a map).  It looked like a run down western town and was very disappointing.  Karen had gone ahead to secure our beds.  She walked into this grungy place: Camino Albergi, and behind the counter was a young girl with a tshirt:   "f... Yourself".  Our bags had been sent there so a slight problem.
Had beer and pasta in the town square. Ran into Mikela from Germany, John from CA and Michael from Germany.  Great time.  We tried a couple other albergues but no luck.  Mikela, John and Michael had to sleep in a mans yard the night before.  Very difficult getting beds.  The three of us decided to taxi forward to Logrono.  We were sorry to skip Viana but need to be reasonable.  We are working as hard as the young folks ( those under 60!) but we just keep up!
Our next break is in Burgos in7 days.  We have advanced 100 miles, walking 80. Hope to do better in the next stage. It is very hard. It does help when we send packs forward.  Today we each sent a box ahead to Burgos.  We have to lighten our pack and some things we figure we won't need until it gets cooler.
Off to bed. Early morning. Buen Camino!!!