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Day 11 - Camino Francés: Viana to Logroño · WCBH

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  Good morning, day 11. It's the 10th of March.
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  We've left Vianna, we're on our way to Legrono, about 15 kilometres,
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  so after four days of 20, 20 plus kilometre days, where we've got a shorter day today.
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  In fact, I think we've got two shorter days back to back.
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  So not a rest day, but a lighter a day, just part of that body management.
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  So intentionally, we left a little bit later this morning to enjoy the hotel that we had.
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  You know, the range of accommodation that we get does fluctuate.
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  So when you've got a nice hotel, comfortable, it's good to enjoy it,
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  especially when you've got a shorter day in front of you.
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  So let's hope that we can go from comfortable hotel to comfortable hotel a couple of days in a row.
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  Today feels just like we've just got to get up and get these kilometres done
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  because it feels like we're having mini rest days.
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  15 kilometres psychologically feels a whole lot shorter than what we've done
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  the last couple of days, but it is at the beginning of the day,
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  so I'll see how I feel later.
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  And just to think, A city to surf in Darwin is 12, 13 kilometers,
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  and psychologically that feels like a lot. You kind of build yourself up.
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  And I don't run the city to surf, I only walk it, maybe the occasional jog,
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  particularly when there's a...
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  A camera person taking a shot or you're getting close to the finish line or
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  at the beginning but everything else in between is is largely a a walk but psychologically
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  those 12 13 kilometers feel like a long way where today the 15 kilometers feels
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  like a short way at this stage our path is,
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  probably about 100 meters from the main road linking viana to legrano so we
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  don't feel that We're truly rural, but we are walking smack bang between a vineyard at the moment.
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  So grapes either side, still very brown.
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  No signs of new life on the bushes yet.
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  There's a nice creek next to us as well, which is a nice bit of background noise running water.
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  And every now and then it's interrupted by a car whizzing past on the main road.
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  Vienna, where we stayed last night, that was a really beautiful town.
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  It's fascinating that these towns might only be 20 kilometres away from each
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  other, but the difference in the feel of the towns,
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  the difference in the amount of money that would have initially been put into the towns and.
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  And what is put now into the towns in terms of renovations and investment and industry, etc.
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  And it's a little bit judgmental because we're only in them for a very short
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  period of time, but you do get a very different feel when you walk into different towns.
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  Sometimes you walk into a town and you think, yeah, this feels good.
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  This feels alive. This feels safe and welcoming.
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  And then there's other towns where you get into and you think, okay, okay,
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  We're here, happy to move on from this town.
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  But Vianna last night, really very pretty,
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  had a real old feel to it, but it feels like a fair bit of money's been put
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  back into it to renovate, to gentrify.
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  It's probably talking on way two different levels, but that closeness of how inner Venice feels,
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  stone pathways narrow streets buildings only two or three stories high,
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  beautiful shop fronts you know some of the towns have that feel which is which
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  is quite amazing like quite often with our our travels and i'm speaking from
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  from my personal perspective quite often with our travels we go to the capital
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  cities and explore the capital cities but this is a.
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  Really nice eye-opener that getting
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  some time away to really
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  unwind in an old town where you could you know just develop some a new habit
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  for a week of sleeping in getting up going to get a coffee etc there's there's
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  there's a lot to like about this region of Spain and it's probably quite accessible as well.
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  Anyway, so we're feeling good. We want to get these tays done.
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  Feels like we want to get them done more than other days.
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  So let's see towards the end of the day if I'm feeling like that the 15 is a short day.
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  We've made it. We're here in Logrono. I've written down that it was about a
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  15 kilometre walk from Viana to Logrono, but it was closer to 10 kilometres, so a short day today.
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  Had an early check-in into our hotel. And yes, we've got a hotel today rather
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  than another form of accommodation. So it's nice to be in a hotel.
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  Short day tomorrow, so a late-ish checkout. So we'll enjoy the time in this hotel.
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  Logrono, it's a big town or city, an older area.
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  And then scrawling suburbs, maybe not suburbs, a scrawling area, technical industrial.
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  So we're going to explore the older stone area, go enjoy the lunch and enjoy
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  Logrono. particularly this hotel, which seems to have everything that we would
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  expect in a place like this, except for one thing, a coffee.
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  So we're back from exploring the town, Logrono, great town, busy,
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  bustling, and it's got a real life to it in the main street there.
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  We stopped off at a cafe and had pinchos for lunch. There was a range of pinchos available.
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  We took ones that were all tiny little bits of baguette, sardines,
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  anchovies, ham and cheese, chicken, a whole range there, egg as well,
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  but they were really delicious, the pinchos.
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  Still getting used to the siesta, things closing down around 1.30,
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  2 o'clock, and then not opening up again until after 5pm.
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  Cultural practice that I definitely think I could get used to.
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  But who am I kidding? When I'm on holidays, tend to have an afternoon nap anyway.
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  So yeah, I think the siesta is great and maybe we should adopt it.