scruffy1
Veteran Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Holy Year from Pamplona 2010, SJPP 2011, Lisbon 2012, Le Puy 2013, Vezelay (partial watch this space!) 2014; 2015 Toulouse-Puenta la Reina (Arles)
Logroño is a good sized city, bustling, with a big city center and park, plenty of banks, some of the best tapas on the CF, a marvelous marvelous Matamoro on the facade of the church leaving town. Last time I was there, the municipal albergue was strategically located, right in the middle, between, the Comisaría de Policía, that is the police station, on one side and the Casino to the other. I have met some rowdy pilgrims on my pilgrimages but none that ever required intervention by the los grises, throughout history they were probably very busy people setting down the law for us but not so much these times. Never been in a Casino in my life and I don't think there are many pilgrims patronizing the place. Perhaps just a misguided attempt by the Logroños to satisfy the what they think are the needs of those passing through while preserving a semblance of order? I can't remember now where but there are several other municipal albergues in other cities located in easy shouting distance from the local constabulary. Those early pilgrims must have been an unruly mob.