21 km through vinyards and cornfields in La Rioja. Due to a longer period of rainfall nature is very beautiful at the moment. It is still cold and windy, but by midday the sun came out and I had a nice coffee break in a small bar next to a village church.
I met two British pilgrims, former doctors who wanted to do the whole Camino up to Santiago because "now we have time". It was so sweet, one of them was teaching the other Spanish with a computer program on his mobile phone while climbing up a steep hill. They were complaining about the big number of pilgrims getting up at 5 o´clock in the morning to get a sleeping place in one of the hostals. Indeed; compared to last year the Camino is really crowded at the moment, big groups of tourists from Germany in particular.
Santo Domingo is famous because of its Roman cathedral. There was a big procession in the village to celebrate San Isidorus, people wearing traditional clothes, unfortunately I missed that.
Saludos desde la Rioja!
