Day 5 - Walking from Puente la Reina to Eunate (-5.5km)

Yesterday I went backwards on the camino. I was starting to feel like I was in a race to get to Santiago and not really getting a chance to take things in. I decided to go back a couple villages and take a detour to visit a little church at Eunate. Santa Maria a Eunate is a church that was built in 1170 with a simple, yet beautiful design. It is in the middle of several farmer´s fields and inside the octogonal church there is a statue of Mary and small altar on which hung a cloth that read ´Venia a mi´. Next to this church there is a house that is shared by a Swiss woman named Mariann and a French man named Jean who take turns living there for about 15 days at a time. They volunteer as ´hospilaterios´ and welcome pilgrims to spend the night. I spent the day there and was joined by two guys from Spain and Italy. We were prepared an enormous supper and learned of the tales of Federico who is walking from Santiago to Lourdes. He was very animated when he spoke and reccommended good places to stay and eat. The evening concluded with a candle light prayer in the Church.

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