Monday 2 October 

Spanish hotel rooms: double beds, booked for two persons and yet can never get a second luggage  rack.  Maybe we succeeded once.

Today’s walk: “one of the nicer walks” QB remarked. 

Garmin 20.5 km

iPhone 16km

Android 18 km

The second large church in Logroño is Santiago which we encounter just before leaving the city. Wonderful polychrome, including Jimmie (St. James to others).

Literally a walk in the park continues for 7.5km.  Nice lake for wildlife, birds, and forested areas, red squirrels.  QB took, possibly, 20+ pics. 

Lovely trails in the park.

Stopping for coffee is always challenge to find seating away from smokers.  Smoking does not seem to have diminished here. Spoke with an Aussie with similar views to ours; also used to a smoke free environment.

Grapes have been harvested.  Found a few still on the vine.  Sweet with durable skins.

Almond trees, with signs saying do not take any.

View entering another hill city, Navarrete. Ruins of a 12th century pilgrims hospital. 

The guide book says not to miss the retablo in the Church of the Assumption.  Says to pay for the lighting of the room, and not to leave town until it is open.

Also in Assumption, offen where to organist sits,:

When is a shower not a shower? When does a device for getting off the grime of the walk have an interface more complicated than my smart phone?

Answer:. when it is of swedish design.  Have seen this before in Denmark though there it had piped in music, with controls of course, as well as LED mood lighting, with mood controls as well.  This one is a basic model.

Dinner can only be described as a reprise of faulty towers.