Day 4 Cizar Menor to Ciraqui

Up at 6 this morning and away by 7. First job of the day getting to the ascent of Alto de Perdin. Took about two and a half hours to het to the top . Had some breakfast while I waited for my friends who had stopped to have breakfast. The ascent was quite long with some steep bits towards the end.
Once we had taken the obligatory pictures with the statues at the summit, we started making the descent toward Puente La Reina. At first it was very steep and made up of loose rocks, which I find challenging, but after a while the gradient decreased and the surface improved.
Although we have left the Pyrenees, there is still quite a lot of climbing hills and going down them again. So it was yesterday, and on the final descent into Puente la Reina, I managed to do something to one of me leg muscles just above the knee which had made descending hills quite painful.
We had lunch in Puente la Reina, and then carried on, planning to do about 5km and then stopping. Alot of the towns in this region are built on hills, so we had a steep climb into where we wanted to stay only to find that there was not enough room at the albergue.
We therefore had to carry on another 3km to Ciraquai, where we found space.
Paid a visit to the farmacia to pick up pain killers blister stuff and volterin for my pulled muscle...€26! Then to the shop to pick up some food, which we had at the albergue.
Rubbish night's sleep as the village church. bells rang the quarters...all night!

27km travelled
expenditure: €50