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Sunday Evening in Logrono

sudaki

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We will be starting our Camino by taking the train from Barcelona to Logrono on a Sunday evening. Will we be safe walking from the train station to Calle del Laurel area at 8 PM? More importantly :) will tapas still be served late into the evening? Thanks!
 
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We will be starting our Camino by taking the train from Barcelona to Logrono on a Sunday evening. Will we be safe walking from the train station to Calle del Laurel area at 8 PM? More importantly :) will tapas still be served late into the evening? Thanks!


No worries..very safe. 8 Pm ? People will be or have just done their "paseo"...walking around some main boulevards. And yes on sunday most tapasplaces in Logrõno will be open ( some are closed but that is only a minor percentage ). And you probably be one of the first in the tapasbars ( although they have more lenient hours than traditional restos ).
Above all : Enjoy!
Two places especially come to mind : one bar that specializes in patatas bravas , other in champinones. To mention only a few....
Argh I just had breakfast and I'm drooling again...
 
Two places especially come to mind : one bar that specializes in patatas bravas , other in champinones.

From my Logrono notes: "Anna and I dined on a street with some 30 tapas bars occupying every storefront. We started at a place which only served mushrooms (one of our favorites), sauteed in butter and garlic, stacked in 3 with a toothpick and a small shrimp, then planted on top of a slice of roll. We had these with a very good local hard cider, similar to the British version in combining sweetness with sharpness. We had mixed tapas at the next place and then went to a seafood specialist for some excellent calamari and squid rellenos, stuffed with seafood, vegetables and some cheese. We finished our night with some champagne sorbet, concocted with champagne in a blender and who knows what else, but it was truly delicious."
 
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From my Logrono notes: "Anna and I dined on a street with some 30 tapas bars occupying every storefront. We started at a place which only served mushrooms (one of our favorites), sauteed in butter and garlic, stacked in 3 with a toothpick and a small shrimp, then planted on top of a slice of roll. We had these with a very good local hard cider, similar to the British version in combining sweetness with sharpness. We had mixed tapas at the next place and then went to a seafood specialist for some excellent calamari and squid rellenos, stuffed with seafood, vegetables and some cheese. We finished our night with some champagne sorbet, concocted with champagne in a blender and who knows what else, but it was truly delicious."
@sudaki the street mentioned in previous post would be Calle Laurel I guess and can only recommend the visit. It's very close to main square and the cathedral. Everybody knows where it is, so just ask and you'll be there in a minute. Buen provecho ;)
 
Yup, you just got to go there! Heavenly way to spend the evening. Sunday shouldn't be too bad but Saturdays can be a bit lively. We stayed in a hostal with an albergue room. It had the no 10pm curfew (though we were in bed around that time anyway). It was a Saturday and there were young Spanish on boozy week-enders making noise in the other rooms/corridors all night. There was even a security guy walking around calming them down! At my morning ablution I saw some who were still drinking and being guided back to their rooms by the guard. Oh well, another morning walking tired. :( But having said that I did like Logrono.
 
Yup, you just got to go there! Heavenly way to spend the evening. Sunday shouldn't be too bad but Saturdays can be a bit lively. We stayed in a hostal with an albergue room. It had the no 10pm curfew (though we were in bed around that time anyway). It was a Saturday and there were young Spanish on boozy week-enders making noise in the other rooms/corridors all night. There was even a security guy walking around calming them down! At my morning ablution I saw some who were still drinking and being guided back to their rooms by the guard. Oh well, another morning walking tired. :( But having said that I did like Logrono.
Al, since you always look on the bright side of things, remember that the silver lining of all these late night debaucheries is that cafes are open at the crack of dawn to serve the revelers who are just leaving the disco. Having breakfast surrounded by inebriated young people is always such a fun way to start the day!
 
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We will be starting our Camino by taking the train from Barcelona to Logrono on a Sunday evening. Will we be safe walking from the train station to Calle del Laurel area at 8 PM? More importantly :) will tapas still be served late into the evening? Thanks!
8 will be safe. People won't even be out looking for dinner yet. You might find some tapas but most places won't yet be open for dinner.
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Thanks all! We are now convinced that Sunday tapas in Logrono will be a wonderful, celebratory way to launch our camino! I'm hungry already!!
 
But having said that I did like Logrono.

It seems a lot of people put Logrono down as being an uninteresting, industrial, "blue collar" kind of city, or even try NOT to spend a night there. I've always maintained that I could easily amuse myself for at least a weekend in ANY city of reasonable size. Every city has parks, museums, historic sites, universities, interesting architecture, and plenty of other things to explore. We spent free days in Burgos and Leon last time, but I plan to spend a day wandering Logrono (by bike) next time. I often feel that I can see more of a city by bike in one day than some residents have in their lifetime.

A question about Logrono for those who've been here (or there ;-) a while - as we rode across the bridge into the city, on the west side there was a large "communal" stork condo (maybe a dozen nests) built of telephone poles in the parkland along the river. I'm not seeing that in satellite view now, so wonder if the city took it down - for whatever reason.
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Well - I just did some searching and have a partial answer, and it turns out that we were fooled along with the storks. Below is the text that went with the photo.
Perhaps the city fathers decided that they had already attracted a sufficient number of storks.

"Stork Nest. Artificial in a park near the river. The storks are decoys to atract others"

Logrono stork nest.jpg
 

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