Friday 6 October cooler, finally

We left La Rioja and entered Castille y Léon.  Good roads, seem much better than seven years ago.  Camino seems to have been improved to make walking smoother  but not shorter.

Garmin 27 km

iPhone 24 km

We stopped at the first tourist office after the sign.  I asked for a book on the region, just like Navarre and La Rioja.  No she says.  No tourist overview book.  We are too poor, unlike those rich regions.  

QB purchased a tee shirt to help them out.

12th century facade.  

The walk continues through wheat Fields, onion Fields, tilled soil but we are no longer seeing grapes.

A side note about dinner last night:. Failed to take a picture of the fabulous salmorejo.  Made with avacodos, the base, and apples.  No tomatoes. Oil of course.  Outstanding. 

Spanish friendliness. We stopped for a snack at a 2 forked RB restaurant.  While we were eating out  food the table next to us was served the above.   Naturally I had to go over and take a picture and discuss it with them.  Beef.

A few minutes later one of them, there were four, brought over a plate with several samples.  Wow! both for taste and friendliness.   I generally do not eat meat but could not refuse.  Wow!.  A different world and a different taste.
It is quite common to see stork nests on tops of churches.   Here, in Belerado, there are four clustered together.  Unusal.

Looking at our blog of seven years ago, this town, there is a picture of the same church with almost the same four stork nests.

Our hotel for the night.  Smallish town with this simple but clean resting place.

A short Camino story.  During a break a woman spoke to us of her Camino, starting essentially where we did, except on 5 September.  Included a trip back to London, three days in a hospital in Pamplona after passing out during a walk into a Gale force winds, a mountain rescue. She is determined to walk the entire Camino and not miss a step so she went back to each “departure point” and tried again.