Bad day. Very bad day.
The long and the short of it is that our too heavy bags finally resulted in injury, and arriving after 30 long kilometers in rainy Najera, it was tears and fears that overcame us. We couldn’t keep going like this.
And so. After much reflection, we decided that the weight must be reduced. Principally, this involved sending off our sleeping bags – heavy, large and not at all designed for this sort of thing. We would figure out bedding somehow. An angel at the auberge helped us put the package together, but the problem of waiting for the post office to open the following day (thereby losing all chances of finding a bed) meant that we had to reserve a hotel – an extraordinary expense compared to the costs we had otherwise anticipated for the Camino.
There was little other choice.