We left Logrono about 7am and really enjoyed the walk (despite the pain) stopping at a nice shop by the lake after about an hour and a half for a coffee then finishing our 13km morning stroll to Navarrete where we found yet another beautiful church.
Then we accidentally fell into a bus leaving Navarrete that took us to Najera where we were intending to stay but after looking at a few smelly overpriced Albergue and running into a friend we met earlier on the Camino we ended up walking an additional 6km to Azofra where we were very happy to find the municipal Albergue has only two beds to a room and looks quite clean and nice … better still at least half a dozen of our new Camino friends are also staying here !
A short queue then a luke warm shower later and we were feeling almost human again … we headed to one of the local cafés/bars for some “San Miguel & Limon” e café con leche and tortilla potata (the stuff Steven has been living on) …
Then came back hung out with some of our friends and decided to cook dinner ourselves instead of eating out … so we headed to the local supermarcardo and bought some fresh local produce for our dinner the couple at the supermarcardo were very friendly and offered us samples of their home made wine (€2 a bottle) local cheese, green and black olives (all of which we bought some of) and even broke out a bottle of rose for us to join them with a drink. We came back and cooked a chicken + vege + rice one pot wonder. After we ate our fill we decided to take the left overs back to the lovely couple at the supermarcado who were very appreciative of the gesture (the funniest site was the look on the woman’s face who ran the albergue when she saw us and our friend Sara walking out of the albergue with one of her pots and lids … she had this absolutely furious look on her face of “and just where do you think you’re going with that?” … thankfully Sara could explain to her what we were doing … and she calmed a little … on our return we showed her the pots we were returning and gave her some olives … she even managed a smile … lol).
On our way back from the supermarcardo the whole Albergue was entertained by a young lady on the building across the street playing a violin … we all cheered an applauded … she played a few numbers for us … she was great.
