Logrono, Saturday afternoon

We had a short walk (19km, or about 12 miles) yesterday from Lorca to Villamayor de Monjardin, a gorgeous village on a hillside where we stayed in an albergue run by a Dutch ecumenical group. It was so pleasant! The hospitalera who checked us in was a "permanent volunteer" of some 4 years from Ohio. The village sits on a hill overlooking vineyards and other crops, just amazingly beautiful to sit in the sun all afternoon. We were served a delicious pilgrim meal of salad, chicken stew with peas, carrots, and other vegetables, bread, wine, water, and pudding or yogurt for dessert. They also served a wonderful breakfast, perhaps acknowledging that the next stop was a far piece hence.No wifi though, so no post.









Part of the reason for the short day yesterday was that the next alburgue, or food, or ANYTHING was 12km further, and part was that B's feet just couldn't do any more.
We passed the very famous "wine fountain" and took the requisite photo! These bikers were filling their quart bottles -



After drying his poor raw toes yesterday afternoon we walked those 12km to the next stop, Los Arcos, this morning, then took a taxi to the large city of Logrono to try to find a better pair of boots before the shops closed for the weekend.
It so happens that the Spanish are big on celebrating May Day, (tomorrow, the first) and Logrono is packed full of people here for the holiday weekend, so all the small hotels and the first albergue we tried were full. We have ended up at our first really big municipal albergue, has 68 beds in three rooms. Thank goodness we were able to find B a pair of boots, a size bigger than the ones from home and rather lighter and softer construction, and we are thinking we need to actually rest his feet for two nights, so we'll look for other accommodation tomorrow and start walking again on Monday. Not what we'd hoped, but we must care for these feet!


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