Camino Francés with Thom & Luke – Sep 2023

What’s that coming over the hill 🎶 Is it a Wine Festival ?

We’ll bless my scheduling skills – it sure is.

Sansol to Logronõ via the lovely Viana 💕

Super helpful Dutch Hospitalero at the Palacio helps with pharmacy directions – & partial baggage transfer to lighten the foot impact load and gets us on the way.

Todays hike is sponsored by …… 🤣

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And not surprising when the last few days looks like this …. 💥 – Floors !! 605 on Monday 😳 – when did this place get so Hilly 🏔️ ? – it wasn’t last time 😏.

Anyhoo …. To the road and onwards

We cross the bridge into Torres del Rio – nice early morning light .

Torres

A town I would stay in next time – it had an Alberque with a pool …..the San Andres – cant tell from the outside – some negative nonsense on Booking.com – but our lot said it was good – you just have to know.

And so to the trail with this complex rock garden – Hundreds of Mini Cairns.

Who builds and maintains them ? 👽

With hippy wishing trees a few Km after

Francesco

Past well situated informal trail cafes – making a good living from knowing how their Camino customers will feel at that distance.

And UP …. Up again to this vista – I sat here equally trollied in 2017 – super picturesque little ruin .

With a great vista from the lounge 😁

Some preparation involved here to bring back to the town of Viana a gift from 2017 from my dear friend Brigitta Csitkovics . A festival scarf from that years bull run . Got loads of questions on my way .

2017 Viana special invitation

2017 Viana near misso.

The scarf returned

With a bottle of Cava 6 years later from the same bar in the same square to celebrate our September Wedding anniversary- 29 years this time ! Cheers Ciara xx

And onto the Festival city of Logronõ . First to the Cathedral with Luke – he loves a good Cathedral as does Thom. Impressed really.

A guarded renaissance masterpiece

Before we head out to the Wine Festival the utter , UTTER madness of Spanish exuberance. Every street in the Barrio asound Calle Laurel like this …. 🍻🍷🍻🍷

With my favorite Spanish Drum Corps / Squadron / Battalion maybe ? 😆 not as big as Santiago’s Corps but rousing and fabulous

A still pic as well in case the videos do not play so well ? – let me know ?

Over view from Ralf’s Balcony- thx for this.

Street level with Luke and I

I hope your phone is set to play the videos ok – they’re worth it .

And home after a few Canãs and Pinxos – yum and super cheap .

Past a few lads from the street . All nationalities – Good chat – V friendly- no idea who they are mind .

And the usual night time scenes in this city – don’t think they need a festival

And so to bed in the suitably named Hostal Winderful …. No kidding. V nice too .

Xxxx

One thought on “What’s that coming over the hill 🎶 Is it a Wine Festival ?

  1. Ciara says:

    29 years….bloody ell! 🤣 How atmospheric. I loved the videos what great timing for the festival.
    Loving the blog babe missing you all.
    Xxx

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