A rest day

Logrono to Ventoso 17km.

So, after the exhertions of yesterday decided today was to be a day off......so therefore i walked 11 miles....well, almost a day off. After the brothers forced endless amounts of hot chocolate and biscuits into us i set off with a girl from berlin and walked with her all day. She had quite a good pace but liked to stop very frequently for a variety of reasons and only walked half a day. For today this was fine by me. Bizarrly she had lived for a while in Guatemala so we talked at length about the situation there. Leaving logrono a long bearded ex pilgrim kept a table in the park where he dispensed free shots of moscatel and gave everyone passing an apple along with their credencial stamp - again he just did it for the love! Arrived at a windy ´Ventoso´at 1pm and that was it for the day, i kicked off my dillapadated boots and got an early start on the usual routine of shower, laundry, food. A young italian couple were working their way through the vending machines supply of Mahou beer cans and building a pyramid from the empties, i suggested they build a sculpture of the cathedral of Santiago and they took this idea on with gusto. I did not see them the next day. Later ´El Boracho and the Mexican´arrived with a few other guys from the fiesta at the wine font the other day. They were in good spirits and probably got stuck in to the beer can santiago cathedral sculpture too.