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Day 12 - Camino Francés: Logroño to Navarrete · WCBH

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  Day 12, walking between 10 and 15 kilometres today, so another short day.
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  Two short days in a row to allow ourselves to recover.
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  Today, walking from Legroño to Navarrete.
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  Interesting walk out of Legroño.
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  It's like a walking path boulevard, which just spanned for kilometres out of the town.
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  And it seemed to be the place to go for a morning walk.
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  So we're all kitted up with our backpacks and our walking sticks and all sorts of things.
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  It seems to be locals of La Grunia are all out for their morning walk.
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  We didn't rush out the door this morning. In fact, by the time we left,
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  I think it must have been about 9.30,
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  very late for pilgrims to be getting on the path, but it is a short day,
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  and it was a cold morning, and I hadn't had a coffee, so then,
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  stopped off at one of the last cafe bars before we left the town for an espresso.
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  Different coffee culture here than there is in Australia.
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  You know, the rise of the takeaway coffee and takeaway coffee cup is not in existence here.
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  So you either sit down have a coffee and talk, or stand at the bar and have your coffee.
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  So definitely a different coffee culture than the takeaway coffee cup culture.
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  On the walk out of La Grunio, like I said, there's a long boulevard. Gracias.
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  A long boulevard where everyone seems to be up for their morning walk,
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  that stretch for kilometres, and then went into a nature reserve.
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  So essentially, I think we just did almost like a big lap of a,
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  what was a dam, which now is a lake.
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  Lots of wildlife there, wildlife that's used to people.
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  You know, we stopped just for a breather and suddenly some big ducks came waddling
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  out of the lake directly up to us and started wagging their tails,
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  wanting whatever we had.
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  They weren't so interested in the fruit, the mandarins or the clementines.
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  They were interested in the biscuits, though.
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  These ducks know the good stuff. They were Biscoff biscuits.
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  Hard to go past Biscoff with the chocolate in between them.
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  And then also the squirrels, tiny squirrels, very brave and bold,
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  very used to humans, coming right up, fronting up to you, standing up,
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  almost to say, right, what have you got for me?
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  Definitely not shy and the
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  fish we crossed this tiny little tiny little
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  timber bridge in this reserve and there
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  were i kid you not hundreds hundreds
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  of these large fish all gathered
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  near the bridge waiting for people
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  to come past and to feed them these
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  fish they had no space there was just fish on top of fish on top of fish and
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  there were hundreds of them huge have no idea what type of fish they were they
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  did have some sort of catfish type mouth with the whiskers they were very large
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  big scales you might be able to hear in the background,
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  after leaving the nature reserve we've climbed another hill and now we're walking
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  parallel with the highway there's
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  apologies for the vehicle noise in the background if it's coming through.
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  Overcast day i love these overcast days for walking cool temperatures
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  overcast but today there is a little bit
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  of spitting rain made the decision not to
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  put the wet weather gear on just suffocates you so rolling the dice it will
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  start raining i'll put it on at about five kilometers i think to go until we
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  get to navaret i think we've got an apartment and book their opportunity to spread out, rest up.
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  And then the days start to build again.
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  At day 12, this really starts to feel like it is our new normal,
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  our new routine of waking up early. Well, not too early, but early enough.
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  Getting yourself packed and getting out on the road and getting the kilometers
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  done, rolling into town.
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  We always seem to arrive during siesta.
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  So then once siesta's done,
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  getting out and finding whatever we can, down to sleep and repeat the process
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  all over again it's quite nice class quite hip not hypnotic repetitive anyway navaret here we come.
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  Well, it's a cold evening here in Navarrete. We arrived early afternoon, actually quite early.
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  When we arrived, we found a bar that was opened and enjoyed another range of pinchos.
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  They were fantastic. There was asparagus, tomato, mushrooms.
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  The mushrooms were good, really, really good.
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  And a few other types that we had there. The pinchos were excellent.
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  We've got a nice apartment here, very close to the church.
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  Now, this church, Navarrete's a fairly small town,
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  a town that you think's got some wealth, but this church went in through big
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  doors, big wooden doors, into a big stone church and turned right just as you
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  come in, and I have never,
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  ever seen so much gold.
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  The altar is adorned with gold on the walls, all different significant scenes
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  out of Scripture portrayed behind the altar.
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  It's very dark, but put a euro into a particular slot, which my son did,
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  and then the gold was just lit up, spectacular.
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  And then all the way around the church was so many significant images, statues.
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  Things like Stations of the Cross and a whole other range of things there.
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  Big organ as well, the lectionary where you would read from,
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  you know, up a flight of stairs.
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  So you're standing up over the congregation when reading.
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  Like this is a very beautiful, significant church.
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  Very, very spectacular. Tomorrow, kilometres start to pick up again.
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  And it's been a good two days of less kilometres for us to recharge,
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  regenerate and ready to go again.