Month: September 2014

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

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In Ventosa.

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We saw some grapevines in Navarre but many more in La Rioja. It is the beginning of the harvest, most of the vines still have grapes but a few have been harvested already. We have seen some harvesting. The wine, of course, comes with every meal.

Wynette. Melóns have been an option on several of our pilgrim’s menus. You get a large slice. Maybe not large enough because they are so delicious. I’m not sure what variety they are. They are just called “melóns” . Above are some we passed in a fruit market in Logroño. Sandías are sometimes an option as well. As everyone from Albuquerque knows, “sandía” means “watermelon”, the old-fashioned red kind. (Albuquerque sits below Sandía Mountain which glows red in the sunset.) Last night we bought a fourth of a sandía and had it for dinner in our albergue kitchen. I think we got the last one in the little grocery store because as we were taking it up to the register to pay I overhead a woman tell her husband  with dismay “ay no, no tiene sandías!”

A few places you have to walk along the highway for a while, usually only one or two hundred meters, sometimes far as one or two km. These are almost always small roads with little traffic. I guess this sign means you can walk on either side.