In this post we want to include some of the quirky aspects of the trip, but first we simply must mention food and drink.
Rarely have we eaten so well and enjoyed such good wine and beer. Unfortunately most of the time we were too busy eating to think about taking photos, so have little photographic evidence. It is strange that, although we would say we dined better in France, two of our highlight pictures belong to Spain.
The first we have mentioned previously, and it is the Irache wine fountain. Free wine and fine tasting wine, not some inferior plonk - what more is there to say, except that we loved it. Thank you Bodegas Irache.
But, as our second picture shows, we did drink things other than wine. We all loved big steaming glasses of cafe con leche. Gio drank it as often as he could, but Yorkie and I liked to slip in an occasional Spanish brandy.
We turn now to artwork along the way. Even though we passed through some wonderful scenery, we were always excited when we came across a new installation. Here are some of our favourites ...
Ermintrude was no ordinary cow on the Aubrac plateau. When you pulled her tail, she nodded her head. We tried not to do it too much in case it annoyed her, but it was irresistible.
We had great fun being part of this pilgrimage montage on the top of windmill hill, more properly known as Alto de Perdon. There were some huge wind turbines turning quite close to us, which tells you we had climbed to a high point and it was windy.
We're not normally city bears, preferring the big outdoors instead, but we did enjoy Pamplona, especially taking part in our very own enactment of the bull run.
You would all have been very proud of us. We sat, as cool as cucumbers, just inches from those thundering hooves and we didn't flinch at all!
Back soon, as once again this post is going on far too long.
Love from the Camino Bears xxx
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