Thursday, April 14, 2016

3 April 2016 updated 15 April

Woke up early- 0700 and packed up, walked to the bus stop and got a coffee to go at the station.  Goodbye Haro.  We passed several bodegas on the way out of town; Lan, Berbano,Marques de Prado.  When we arrived at the bus station in Logroño we noticed a lot of police and bicyclists - some race.  We headed to the albergue of Iglesia de Santiago where we had spent our first night before proceeding to Grañón.  Elsa answered the door and we were hoping to leave our backpacks with her but she said she was expecting us to return and brought us to a nice room.  We were sorry to hear she isn't feeling well so we left our bags and went out so she could rest.  Stopped by the church and hung around for mass at 1030.  We are used to Father Jesus masses which are only 20-30 minutes long.  This mass was 45 minutes long!  Stopped at the ATM, had a cafe and croissant then decided to just hang around until 2 when Tomas might be joining us for lunch.

Well Tomas didn't make it but Cullen and I went to the restaurant where were supposed to meet the Amigos and had a wonderful meal at La Sidreria de San Gregorio Calle San Gregorian 27.  

Had a great meal.  Salad, foie, merluza, bacalao, Vina Tondonia(which we have had at the Wine House, a bit of flan for dessert and coffee - Ochoa for Cullen.  We took a long walk after that big lunch.  It started to sprinkle so we went back to the albergue.  There are 5 pilgrims staying here; 1 Czech who walked from Rome to Santiago and is now heading back to Rome, 2 German girls (one named Ana) a Swede and an Italian who speaks German.  Nice dinner by Alberto and he did a nice ceremony in the church afterward.  He gave us our first stamp in our credential.  For the blessing of our meal he told the story of "Utreia" as told in the codex - and we sang a line from it - very nice!  Maybe we will make it to Ventosa tomorrow.  Christina, a hospitalera from Malaga is here helping while Elsa gets better.  She has also recommended some other places to stay which may be a little too primitive (no electricity)!

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