New boots – Day 32
April 11th, 2008 Posted in Fiesta, Spain
Helen is still dehydrated from yesterday’s heat and is suffering with headaches today; once you’re dehydrated it takes at least a day of constant drinking to get your system back to normal. Luckily it’s cloudy so at least she shouldn’t get any worse.
The lovely Rioja countryside seems almost as green as Galicia, and by lunchtime a climb past a gigantic black wooden cut-out of a bull, advertising whiskey, reveals the wide expanse of the city of Logroňo, with pretty parkland around a reservoir in the foreground. Once into the city we pass through seemingly endless suburbs of manicured lawns and huge blocks of smart modern flats built on a grid pattern. After asking several times which direction is the centre, we eventually find it, stopping to pick up our post and the new boots I’d had sent to the post office, find a quiet room and at last get some sleep.
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