Vitalie Ciobanu

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  • Stage 7. Torres del Río – Logroño

    Stage 7. Torres del Río – Logroño

    Ahhh, last day, 20 km only. And the total ascent was very soft, nothing hard.

    The morning/breakfast is already slightly described in the previous post, nothing else to mention.

    In general this day went by very fast. Only by mid-distance we reached the first city – Viana. The rest of the route passes through camps and forests.

    Overall a nice and easy day. We reached Logróño in 4 hours and a half and stopped at a nice hotel to thank our bodies for the effort done during the last days. A good shower, with hot water, is everything I needed! Afterwards we went to Calle Laurel, a famous street/area with bars and restaurants offering various types of pinchos. since there weren’t many vegan options, we repeated more than ones in the same place. The best was a place that offer mushrooms grilled in garlic sauce – Bar Cid . It was mazing!

    Bar Cid

    Today, we had a quick and small breakfast in the first open cafeteria, since it Sunday and Easter, there were not a lot of options either.

    However, for lunch we went to a known place called Sol Veggie. This was wow!! You can really see the difference between a place with vegan options and a vegan place. We ordered too much and had to cancel one dish because it was too much for our stomach 😂 Everything was super tasty! We also ordered vegan shawarma for the train back home, that I can’t wait to eat after posting this post 😛

    After lunch Lucía went to have a quick siesta and I went to buy some baclava from a place I dreamed about all week 😅🤤 this is a Syrian place called Pastelería Damasco. They have the best baclava I have ever eaten! If you go there, cautious, this desert is very addictive! I warned you!

  • Stage 6. Estella – Torres del Río

    Stage 6. Estella – Torres del Río

    What a day! Out of the 6 hours we were moving, I think we were under somewhat heavy rain 5 hours.

    About the night, all good. Comfortable beds, clean bathrooms, good service although laundry services a little too expensive – 7 euros per bag.

    Other than the rain during the day, the route passes through nice places and many green areas.

    The route passes through a nice place that works with metal – smithy – https://www.laforjadeayegui.com/.

    A few meters later you reach a wine factory that arranged a spring with running water AND a wine one 😀 there is a limit of 100 liters a day 😛

    https://www.irache.com/ if you have spare time, you can also visit the wine museum.

    Left – wine. Right – water.

    When we reached our planned destination and stopped to eat at the only open restaurant, since it was the Easter Friday, it was a challenge to find something open, we decided to go to the next city to sleep and thus do less the next day.

    The next city was about 7 km away, so we did almost 30 km this day. Luckily the rain stopped a little, because the road goes through open land with a lot of wind and muddy roads.

    We reached Torres del Río and stopped at the first hostel that we saw – Hostal San Andrés. The only good thing here was during the night nobody was snoring! 😂

    To summarize the hostel, during check in we were told there is a restaurant with some vegan options. We ended up ordering pasta with tomato sauces and rice with mushrooms, again, and Lucia ordered minestra de verduras, a Spanish dish with vegetables and ravioli with spinach, that I believe have eggs…

    Man’s bathroom and showers were “outside” the main building and it was quite average. The showers with no hot water, just enough to make you shower as quick as possible and leave, especially in a cold day and bathroom with no heating and the door widely open. The shower space was small with no place to hang clothes or towel, so it remained hanged in the door from outside. Did I mention the room had no heating and it had the same temperas outside because the door is always opened?! When I went to the bathroom during the night, I used lady’s room, it was closer 🙂

    Also during check in we were told they don’t have vegetable milk but they will get one for us from a store in the nearby city. Also they can toast some bread for us. Turned out in the morning nobody knew nothing about this, so there was no milk and no way to toast bread. We went to a small shop around the corner and bought a bagel that we put some olive oil and salt on it. And here we were, before the last day of our St James Way during this vacation.

    Agora Hostel
    Agora Hostel bathroom