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Notes from the paperwork route

Diary of the route

The five police sections at Avenida de Guipúzcoa 40, a researcher’s first months in Pamplona, and what changes when a pilgrim decides to stay in Navarra.

Calle del Carmen, the first street of Pamplona's old town that pilgrims walk after the Portal de Francia, almost empty on an overcast day: a straight stone-paved street with pale guide lines runs between tall houses with iron balconies, flower pots and wall lanterns, a small blue pilgrim-hostel sign with a scallop shell hangs on the right, and a few distant figures walk at the far end under a heavy grey sky
Calle del Carmen, the first street inside the walls. Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped and resized)

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