Day 8: Logroño - Nájera

Today we had 30km ahead of us, so we left the albergue at 07:45. The sun hadn't rose yet, but Logroño was already very much alive at that early hour. On the outskirts of Logroño there is an awesome park around a lake, which housed all kinds of animals: we saw squirrels, ducks and many other waterfowl, birds of prey.. you name it.





The scenery has changed completely. We are now in La Rioja, a small region of Spain famous for its wine production. And it shows! Everywhere we looked today we could see vineyards, some of which were being pruned as we passed.


We made a small detour into Ventosa to get something to eat and ended up paying 8€ for two cañas and stale bread with jamón that they dared to call bocadillos.. Oh well, we can't get it right every time, and yesterday we did have great bocadillos..


At Nájera's municipal albergue we found some morcilla that had been left in the fridge by a local association for the pilgrims and we couldn't pass the opportunity to try some. It was great! It was very different from the Portuguese morcela and the texture was also a bit different from others we had tasted in Spain. Although we didn't ate much, it got us full enough to pass on dinner tonight. Only three other pilgrims at the albergue: two bikers and Bernhard, who caught up with us again.