The environment starts to slowly change as we leave Pamplona and head west. The landscape opens out now that we are past the Pyrenees. We see slightly drier fields of cut wheat, some tuned over completely to show a reddish, course soil. Sunflowers are dropping their seeds. The odd fig tree is ripening.
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| turbines ahead |
A line of 40 wind turbines line the hilltop on the horizon and we know that is our halfway point of the day.
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| almost to the top |
At the top we feel the glorious cool wind and take the time to see the view behind us:
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| Pamplona and the now distant Pyrenees |
and in front of us:
Then we notice the statues to the Peregrinos at the top of the hill along with the wind turbines, which have provided power to the Pamplona area for more than 20 years.
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Erected in 1996, there is a caption in Spanish which translates to:
where the path of the wind crosses that of the stars.
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| me and Don Quixote - tilting at windmills |
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