Day 8: Taking It Easy

We said good bye to our traveling companions of the last several days (Cecelia, Mike, Herman and Paul) to take a relatively easy day on the Camino. Hopefully, this will allow Therese's maladies to heal. It was hard to see them go on ahead, but perhaps our paths will cross again. 

We walked 20 relatively uninteresting kilometers out of Logrono to the tiny hamlet of Ventosa. We arrived at 12:30 to find a short queue of peregrinos outside the albergue. 

Once we checked in, we found a wonderfully restored building with a lovely courtyard.  It certainly is a lovely reward for a boring day of hiking. 

Therese's feet seem to be doing better. She got rid of a couple of kilos of unused items and her old hiking shoes. It will be all the way to Santiago in her new Keens. 

Last night, we had a nice time exploring Logrono with its narrow alleys and tapas bars. We had some very nice local crianza. We bought a bottle and took it back to the albergue where Cecelia was cooking up another fine meal--mussels, prawns, calamari and rice noodles. We fringed in on dinner. 

Today's good intentions are for our siblings, Celine and Susan, who offer us splendid hospitality whenever we are in Michigan.