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WynChar Diary, April 19
Another rest day. We did pack up our packs and walk the half mile from last night’s hotel to tonight’s hotel. They were not the same because of busy hotels for Semana Santa.
Yesterday we ate breakfast at a nice little cafe very close to our hotel, our usual fried eggs and toast. Three video screens playing videos from what appeared to be the late 1980s, on some MTV channel. This surprised me since I thought MTV had stopped playing videos. This seemed to be the video equivalent of a Spotify playlist. We enjoyed trying to identify the songs without looking at Shazam on our phones.
This morning we went back to the same place (same video play) and he recognized us and remembered our order. When I got up to pay he suddenly remembered something and got my glasses off a high shelf. I had left them but didn’t realize it. I’m not used to wearing glasses, only recently needing them, and don’t usually wear them.
Speaking of playlists, we were in a bar for lunch a few days ago and they were playing all rockabilly, my favorite genre. I think I can say without fear of contradiction that rockabilly is the greatest music ever made. Besides the classics they had some deep rockabilly cuts that even I had never heard. Shazam heard: Party Doll by Buddy Knox, Let’s have a party by Wanda Jackson, Summertime blues bu Eddie Cochran, Bluejean bop by Gene Vincent, Woo Hoo by the 5.6.7.8’s (!), Good golly miss molly by Little Richard, Ubangi stomp by Warren Smith, Rebel rouser by Duane Eddie.
We had a great lunch at Micazo Ramen: a ramen bowl and an udon bowl. Afterwards the waiter offered us, on the house, a sample of a Japanese plum liqueur called umeshu. He claimed the recipe was 3700 years old. It was good but we didn’t buy a bottle. It wasn’t that good and I’m not lugging a bottle of booze in my backpack.
Now we are sitting in a lovely common room with big windows looking out on the square. I love to watch the rain and wind while sitting inside in a warm room.
The rain patterns here are so different from what I am used to. You’ll get a light drizzle and then clear up and you get some sun, then it clouds over and you get a heavy rain, then a light rain, etc, etc, etc. In New Mexico, if it rains for 15 minutes straight it is quite and event.
Miles walked per Wynette’s watch: 5.76
Flights of stairs climbed (equivalent): 9, mostly in our pension
It’s raining out thereNoodle restaurant
5 thoughts on “WynChar Diary, April 19”
Rain in Pontevedra…. As I write this comment it is snowing quite heavily here in Albuquerque. It’s even sticking on the grass.
Ella, I’m going to repeat hear what I wrote in your blog. (Apologies to you and Grubb and Henry who is also reading your blog.) I did really like the umeshu we got to sample last night. I might have been tempted to buy a bottle if we didn’t have to carry it. It was very delicate, I thought. Tasted yummy. I wouldn’t want to drink a lot at once but a taste here and there. I can see how you would get into it being in Japan!
Rain in Pontevedra…. As I write this comment it is snowing quite heavily here in Albuquerque. It’s even sticking on the grass.
Umesho! I love the stuff with ice and soda water so just a hint of the sweet and sour plum flavor.
Ella, I’m going to repeat hear what I wrote in your blog. (Apologies to you and Grubb and Henry who is also reading your blog.) I did really like the umeshu we got to sample last night. I might have been tempted to buy a bottle if we didn’t have to carry it. It was very delicate, I thought. Tasted yummy. I wouldn’t want to drink a lot at once but a taste here and there. I can see how you would get into it being in Japan!
Cheers to you guys!
Rockabilly has its place, but if I’m at funeral, or want to reflect, I’d prefer a Bach Cello Suite.
I admit to a bit of exaggeration as comment-bait. Is that what internet influencers do to increase interaction?
If I change it to the best party music I think I have something actually defensible.