Zubiri to Pamplona

I secured a couple of beds in Pamplona via booking.com the night before, so no bed race - Yeah!  We left at 8:15am; we crossed back over the Puente de la Rabia.   It's a medieval bridge that crosses the Rio Arga.   It's named Rabia because of the legend that any animal led 3 times around the central arch would be cured of rabies.  It's also most likely a site of a former leprosarium.  We climbed up a concrete path past the Magna Magnesitas Navarras industrial complex.  Brierley says it's bleak.  I say industry is needed everywhere.  The high point today is 560m - we walked by hamlets and crossed over the Rio Arga several times, stopped and took a break at Zuriain then continued to climb past an old abandoned quarry.  We made it to Opcion.  I was baked.   Nothing worse than having to relieve ones self and there's no where to go but the woods.  I guess I should have read that book "how to shit in the woods". 😂  It was a hard slog after lunch so hailed a taxi for the last 8km avoiding the hard city pavement.  My foot appreciated the ride.  We checked into Hemingway hostel at 2:15 and took a nap.  Siesta time is between 4 and 6pm.  I am needing a good nights sleep! We went out for pintxos and ran into some pilgrims. Gonna try and get some sleep!  Off to Puete la Reina tomorrow.