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- Francés, Norte, Salvador, Primitivo, Portuguese
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Gorgeous view and weather for February!Our second day on the Rota Vicentina (south west Portugal, from south to north, between Vila do Bispo and Carrapateira). YES, this is really FEBRUARY! I'm on the right. (3 February 2016.) Got to Santiago de Compostela on 12 March.
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pitter patter of my heart, you know I love the RV!!!! and you had so much influence on that!!!... it is ALWAYS calling me!!!!Our second day on the Rota Vicentina (south west Portugal, from south to north, between Vila do Bispo and Carrapateira). YES, this is really FEBRUARY! I'm on the right. (3 February 2016.) Got to Santiago de Compostela on 12 March.
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Oops, sorry! I got so excited about Jill's Sintra picture, I thought I was on the "One picture, one day" thread.The Pena Palace in Sintra, Portugal, 4/19
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Blessing of the throats????Ages to Burgos. Arriving at the alburgue, there was a sign stating that the Municipal alburgue in Hornillos del Camino was closed (more on that tomorrow). Attended Mass at the cathedral for the Feast of St Blaise, but they did not do a blessing of the throats.
Blessing of the throats????
Hmm, not many of us walking in February. A year ago today I crossed the bridge into Pontedeume on the second day of the Camino Ingles.
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It was about 4 pm and I had to wait for the tourist office to open at 5 pm to pick up the key to the albergue, so I found a small bar up the road, sat on a bar stool, and ordered (in Spanish) a beer.
A man sitting on another bar stool asked (in English) if I was English. I said: Is my Spanish that bad? And he replied: No, it’s just that only English people say “por favor” when ordering a drink. We then chatted for the next hour or so, which passed the time most enjoyably.
At the albergue the bathroom was downstairs and all the beds were upstairs, except for one very rickety bunk bed. As the place was spotlessly clean, and recently mopped, I pulled a mattress onto the floor. There was no window, so it was pitch dark at night. Slept like a log.
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One of my favourite places on the Frances. I love the way it just appears miraculously out of the ground in front of you after miles of meseta looking like the set for a Sergio Leone spaghetti westernOnce again I missed staying in Hontanas.
One of my favourite places on the Frances. I love the way it just appears miraculously out of the ground in front of you after miles of meseta looking like the set for a Sergio Leone spaghetti westernIt's also where I first encountered patxaran courtesy of a very kind Spanish pilgrim. I loved it so much that now I make my own at home in Wales whenever there is a decent crop of sloes in the autumn. Luckily 2021 was an excellent year and I made a gallon!
It's a Basque liqueur made with aniseed, sugar, sloes and a few coffee beans. Sometimes a couple more herbs or spices. If you are familiar with sloe gin then imagine that with a dash of aniseed added rather than juniper.What is patxaran?
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