Uncategorized / April 25, 2024

Churches

The past two days especially, we’ve seen some stunning churches. I showed photos of the romanesque church in Santillana del Mar yesterday. I’ll post some photos below of churches we passed today. It amazes me how low key people here are about these magnificent buildings. In the US they’d be major tourist attractions, I think.

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Uncategorized / April 25, 2024

Shades of New Mexico

You see these plastic wrapped rolls of hay all the time as you are walking. It seems like a good idea. I haven’t tried to lift one but I imagine they are pretty heavy and it seems very unlikely that one might roll away in the wind unless they had one heck of a storm.

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Uncategorized / April 25, 2024

4/25 WynChar Diary

Miles: 7.4 miles, from 3 to 374, 915 feet up, 735 feet downDogs in bars: 2Dogs Charlie played ball with in bars: 1Rude pilgrims who hogged a whole three-person bench for him and his backpack and warned us not to sit there while we sat on cold cement steps: 1, but we are definitely not

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Uncategorized / April 25, 2024

TVs and rain panchos

Since we arrived in Spain on April 9, we have stayed in 16 different hotels (aka pensions, apartamentos, etc.) I’m pretty sure every room we have been in has had a television. (A few were tiny tiny televisions.) We have yet to turn one on. We’ve tried watching TV on past trips in Spain, but

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