June 24
Najera to Santo Domingo 22.5km
After finishing the blog last night we went out to sit on the patio in the first little bit of sun we´d seen in awhile.  I was telling people that we´d been writing about all the different paths of the camino.  They said, oh, you forgot, the deep mud red clay paths, the huge slabs of marble slate paths, and the old roman roads, that are cobblestone, etc. etc. As you can tell we walk a wide variety of surfaces each day through varying terrain. 
Then we went inside to have supper and the hospitalier (innkeeper) came over and said to me, you speak Spanish, right?  I need help telling this man that he can´t register until everyone in his group is here, but he speaks Czech.  So, he said,´I´ll tell you in Spanish, you translate to English for this girl, she´ll translate to slavic, and he´ll be able to understand her.  Wow, the perfect camino conversation. 
The walk to Santo Domingo was primarily wide country paths through gently undulating farmland. We spent the night at a 17th century abbey of Cistercian nuns. We went to hear them sing vespers, and made a light dinner in the stone and wood beam kitchen. What a cool step back in time.
Buen Camino