Awesome time, Pinchos bar hoping in Logrona. Hitting the must-stop places.
Our first stop, a specialist in the area for garlic grilled mushrooms.. Yeah, one shop and all the serve is grilled garlic mushrooms... Picture this with me as I remember it and wipe the drool.
They start with mushroom caps 🍄 and grill them till soft while basting with white wine, butter, and garlic... (MMMMMM!) -WIPE- Then they skewer three together, stick that upside down on a small piece of baguette -WIPE-, Drizzle that -WIPE- with more garlic butter and serve piping hot.... OMG! I need to stop talking about them -WIPE- (Those wipes are real, not for story telling)... Anyways, freaking awesome given their simplicity!
We went into a skewer place, pork bits, chorizo, or a local sausage. Grilled and served just on the skewers or in a very small baguette type bun to make it a sandwich...
Another had small and thin baguette slices a soft round Spanish cheese and various toppings. Or is a wonderful place to go out, BE out, and enjoy an evening with various foods. Enough to try but not enough to prevent you from trying more - which is exactly the purpose, you are SUPPOSED to wander bar to bar. Anyways, to quote Rhino the hamster from Bolt THAT WAS AWESOME!
And then we went to our EZBake oven called an Albergue. Great place with one MAJOR flaw...
NO BLOODY AIRFLOW! Oh, there were fans and all, yeah, that didn't help. No-one seemed to get much sleep in the sauna and one lady woke the whole place up at 1:30am screaming, people thought she fell but apparently a nightmare.
So, yeah, yesterday morning everyone was dragging their rear ends out. Motivation: 0, Exhaustion: 6 out of 10
Determination: just enough to get myself to the next albergue and recharge and what a recharge it was... (Damn, those dots are in there, something is coming) I won't get into the details as those tales are for others (*cough* Lynne) to tell in their own stories. Let's just say that some Camino baggage/burdens were left behind. Anyways, we had a great dinner with several pilgrims only to discover that each group of pilgrims was issued different menus, we counted at least 4 menus available. But the food, it was good, the pork maybe a little vulcanized and the sauce a little too salty, but still good. The early dinner have us the remainder of the night to get to know each other and bond. Touch base with pilgrim friends behind a few cities, etc.
Bedtime for our room was before 9am... Guess who slept thru both Hwa, one of the Italian guys, AND Lynne all packing? Yeah, 6:20am wakeup and then only because the Italian in the bunk above me got up and talked the bed. Oh my, I recharged and today's walk was Testament to it.
We hit it first city, Najera around 9:30 am, in time for 2nd breakfast(Hobbit style) and our planned destination at 11:30 on time for elevenses and a quick vote that we all hated ourselves enough that we were going to charge thru to Cirueña and grab a shared room. The first 7k went smooth, even though the afternoon heat cranked up into the mid 80s f. The next 1.5 k which I honestly don't remember, a climb up a hill... Oh for the previous 4k it looked like a nice easy grade... It was not, and it was hot, and in patented Camino style - AT THE END OF THE DAY!
It sucked, we didn't want to do it, but we did it.
And that's brings us to tonight. My "introvert"sister and I sent to the bar outside our window for dinner, we ended up with 5 of us at the table... If my sister is an introvert, then I am shy ,🤣.
Things are going well a quick deep thought, while addressing a minor foot issue. Fix the small things NOW before they grow into BIG things. All to often our desire to push forward comes at the cost of fixing things until it is to late. Just something to meditate on, I know I have, I have to think of SOMETHING while sauntering along.
It’s just another Camino sunrise,
Rising up to greet the day.
Laced my sneakers, packed my rucksack,
Time to walk the miles away.
Working hard to find the meaning,
On the road from town to town.
Every step just keeps revealing,
Why the pilgrim spirit’s found.
Take another step, amigo,
Find another bed to stay.
The yellow arrows guide me,
To Santiago someday.
Some folks walk it for religion,
Others just to find some peace.
On the Meseta in the distance,
Golden fields will never cease.
There are friends I’ll always treasure,
From the wines we shared at night.
Albergues and simple pleasures,
Make the long road feel so right.
Take another step, amigo,
Find another bed to stay.
The yellow arrows guide me,
To Santiago someday.
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