Miles walked: 10.4. Six of those were on the path and 4.4 of those were around Logroño.
Elevation gained in flights of stairs equivalence: 14. Not a lot of up and down.
Today we walked the short six mile distance between Viana and Logroño. We were out of the hotel in Viana by about 7:20 and in Logroño by 10:30. We are staying here in the big city for two days.
We crossed into La Rioja today. Logroño, population 200,000, is the capital of La Rioja. So, we have left Basque country.
We have an apartment with a kitchen. I was going to say “little apartment” but it’s actually quite roomy.
We enjoyed going to the nearby grocery store and buying good bread and cheese and tomatoes and a salad kit and made lunch “at home”. We also got food for breakfast in the morning. Logroño is famous for its tapas, but I have a feeling we are going to eat most of our meals in the apartment. We have such fun going to the grocery store and finding great things to bring home.
We did errandy things today like a post office pickup, grocery shopping, laundry. We are glad to have another day to spend in Logroño. Tomorrow we can tell you more about the city itself.
One of my earliest political memories is of my mother saying she hated Franco. Another early memory is my mother despising Richard Nixon. And my mother talking about the Armenian genocide. I always ask people “what did you mother say when you didn’t want to eat your …” (usually it was vegetables)? Mine said “think of the poor starving Armenians.”
I don’t think I was older than six or seven.
We have seen a few memorials to the brave antifascists in the Spanish Civil War and we are always moved. Unfortunately they were not able to prevent 36 years of Franco.