A Leisurely Stroll into Logroño

For once I am starting to write early, instead of at 11pm when drooping. We are having a little downtime, it is about 5.30, we are regrouping at 6, and I’ll try and remember the day so far. By the way I added a video to yesterday’s post, as realised how to find them…not wonderful, the pics just can’t capture the beauty and scope.

So we just had an 8 km walk into Logroño…another beautiful day, and the walking was almost always very gentle…not the many and sometimes times unexpected uphills of yesterday. We quite easily found our hotel - new to me, but seems very friendly and very close to the centre. AND it does washing and drying for €10 a bag!! So no need to find a laundromat! Our rooms weren’t ready when we arrived soon after 12, so we left most of our stuff and walked around getting our bearings. A very nice town, or city really I think. Soon found the main plaza, with the cathedral, one of the enormous churches here, and had coffee/colacao. I then wanted to find the street where Amr and I had found so many tapas bars with wonderful food, and yay success! I was so pleased that we declared it lunchtime and ordered yum selections, including a racion of chiperones à la plancha!!

Then back to the hotel to check in properly and get our keys, and change out of walking gear and put it all into laundry bags and get ready for another wander in après walk clothes. By now it was rather hot, but we walked across the river on a long bridge, then along the path on the other side and back on another pedestrian bridge. Very pleasant with the spring green and birds twittering…though a bit hot…we found our way to the church of Santiago - yet another huge one, but it was open…so often frustratingly they are closed when we want to go in…we were told that Mass there was at 7…so that was when we had downtime - and I started on this entry, but am now back from our evening - I won’t say dinner, as it wasn’t dinner as such - anyway we met on a bench in the square and after wandering a bit R and R decided it would be best to go to the 7pm Mass and then float round freely….so we did, back to Santiago church, and afterwards made our way back to Calle del Laurel where it was all happening…it was the drinking and tapas time, and crowds were in the street, standing at window bars and barrels, lots of hubbub…we had been told to go to a place that does mushrooms in garlic oil and puts them on a stick with a prawn on top…we found the place and miraculously it wasn’t crowded, so got our mushroom tapa each, and by the time we finished the place was full…so we went along looking for our next snack and Rachel said let’s go into a place that was absolutely empty…my instinct would have been to give it a miss, but we were committed, and we each had delicious bites, sat ourselves near the door in full show, and by the time we finished that place was filling up! Flushed with success we went to one more which was quiet, and soon there wasn’t a seat vacant…so we wandered back, via an Italian gelateria and I had a Baileys flavour in a cone.yum. Amr follows us wherever we go…we think of him so often and quote him…he should be with us…
Final count for the day was 16.07 kms and 24,901 steps.Baca lagi