We took an excursion to Estella on Sunday and it was great and I´m going to buy a pen flash drive now so that I can upload the pictures from a computer here or at school since I have so much trouble with my laptop connecting to the internet. The reason that we (collectively) decided to go there was because, in Vasco, my name appears in the name of the town! How could we not go there? hehe! (Lili and Crispin are great travel buddies...) It was tiny but there were many beautiful churches going back as far as the 12th century (maybe you already know that)!
San Pedro, the main parish had a huge set of stares leading up to it and an enclosed convent in the back. St. Domingo has been converted into a retirement home but it is still an astounding stone building from the outside. And San Miguel I think is the oldest church where there were tons of people for mass with the choir loft that looked like it was precariously perched over the congregation. It too is high up, like San Pedro, and so after we descended the stairs to the street we were pretty far from the church. Suddenly a ping pong ball flew out of the sky and we saw all of the youth of San Miguel leaning over the edge of the courtyard yelling for their ball. They used it for that game called foosball that they were all engrossed in. I went halfway up the stairs and threw it back to them: it barely made it to them but 3 of the boys reached their arms out and somehow they got it back to return to the game. I hope that they weren´t supposed to be in mass right then!
The río Ega was nice, I went wading in it even though my friends ditched me...hehe. And it was a wonderful day- I was hot and sweating! We ate the pilgrim´s menu at the Roma Cafe for 7 euros and shared a bottle of wine from Irache monesterium! Estella is on the route for the Camino de Santiago so the tourist office had a lot of good information for us and it there were many pilgrim "outfitters" around town. Only a few restaurants were open though because it was Sunday. After lunch we went to a Cafetería and Lili and Crispin studied for some time, while I climbed to the top of the pueblo and took some more pictures of the colorful rooftops. What a paseo!
San Pedro, the main parish had a huge set of stares leading up to it and an enclosed convent in the back. St. Domingo has been converted into a retirement home but it is still an astounding stone building from the outside. And San Miguel I think is the oldest church where there were tons of people for mass with the choir loft that looked like it was precariously perched over the congregation. It too is high up, like San Pedro, and so after we descended the stairs to the street we were pretty far from the church. Suddenly a ping pong ball flew out of the sky and we saw all of the youth of San Miguel leaning over the edge of the courtyard yelling for their ball. They used it for that game called foosball that they were all engrossed in. I went halfway up the stairs and threw it back to them: it barely made it to them but 3 of the boys reached their arms out and somehow they got it back to return to the game. I hope that they weren´t supposed to be in mass right then!
The río Ega was nice, I went wading in it even though my friends ditched me...hehe. And it was a wonderful day- I was hot and sweating! We ate the pilgrim´s menu at the Roma Cafe for 7 euros and shared a bottle of wine from Irache monesterium! Estella is on the route for the Camino de Santiago so the tourist office had a lot of good information for us and it there were many pilgrim "outfitters" around town. Only a few restaurants were open though because it was Sunday. After lunch we went to a Cafetería and Lili and Crispin studied for some time, while I climbed to the top of the pueblo and took some more pictures of the colorful rooftops. What a paseo!
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