October 2, 2014 – The Way-Slow Way

Wynette. It was a few days ago but I wanted to post this before too much time passes. We stayed in a beautiful, peaceful, pretty much perfect hotel in Ventosa named Las Aguedas. The owner cooked a dinner for her guests. There were 4 couples. In above photo, front to back, they were from Seattle, Albuquerque, Plymouth, England, and Albuquerque! The other Albuquerque couple had been hearing about another Albuquerque couple and vice versa. The photo was taken after the simple, delicious meal of salad and paella and tangerine ice cream, made by a local ice cream maker. The Seattle couple asked the owner to join us for dinner but she graciously turned down the invitation. She said she couldn’t eat at 7:00, when our dinner was starting. She had to wait till at least 10:00. We were grateful she didn’t make us wait till 10:00. Well I’m sure she knew she wouldn’t get many takers for such a late dinner, at least from North American peregrinos. (Actually I don’t think any other country eats as late as the Spanish.)

Charlie relaxing in living room of Hotel Las Aguedas: