You do go to some amazing places judging by your photos.
Have a great trip and i look forward to following your adventures.
Have a great trip and i look forward to following your adventures.
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Great photos. Yes you are correct, it is part of the French Route from St J PP. A few years ago we followed as best we could the full 500 route from there to Santiago. The route actually enters the town by the bridge over the Ebro close to the Cathedral and passes down that main street in front of the Cathedral, so you will have walked some of it. Pamplona is the main place before Logrono.
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It was on that bridge we saw them. It's the same bridge used on the procession tomorrow - if we can find out when it happens!
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Great thread again.
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If its sunny, the heat from the sun makes the reading artificially high. However, it's the temperature you feel that is the important factor so of you are in the sun it will feel 28C.
Weather reports are the temperature in the shade, which is usually 4 or 5C lower when its sunny.
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We follow you on Thursday...
If you have an Android phone download "Spain Topo Maps" from the Play store. (Free). It is 1:25,000 scale mapping, and although not as good as UK Ordnance Survey maps, is the best we've found for hiking in Spain, with contours giving indication of terrain and height.
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Really enjoying your thread so far John, it is annoying when sites charge extra for dogs!
Looking forward to following the rest of your trip.
Looking forward to following the rest of your trip.
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Me also, we were travelling around France same time as you last year and met you somewhere but can't remember where I'm afraid, but enjoy your posts, wish we were there now.
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Many thanks for the suggestion, I've just downloaded and it looks excellent.
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I'd forgotten the place too but having checked it was the CCP aire at Saint Julien in Provence. I liked the area but it's a long drive from Roscoff where we usually enter France but I would like to return some time.
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On iOS (maybe Android too, no idea) try using the Footpath app - you can choose from a variety of maps, including OS for the UK, Spain & France IGN Topo, and more.
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What else would you drink before Sunday lunch when staying in the Rioja region?
I'm cooking lunch - which won't be hard, chop the stems off four small globe artichokes and boil them for thirty minutes. Serve with melted butter. Pictures may follow....
I'm cooking lunch - which won't be hard, chop the stems off four small globe artichokes and boil them for thirty minutes. Serve with melted butter.
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I'll look at that, thanks - there are several similar apps but I'm not sure which is best.
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It's a funny colour.What else would you drink before Sunday lunch when staying in the Rioja region?
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I'm cooking lunch - which won't be hard, chop the stems off four small globe artichokes and boil them for thirty minutes. Serve with melted butter.
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Pull the scraggy bits* off the artichokes** from around the top of the stem. The two on the right have been trimmed like this, the one on the left is next for de-scragging.
Cut the stem off flush with the base. I've also trimmed the top but this isn't essential. At home you would put them in a bowl of water with lemon juice added to stop the cut edges going brown but in a MH just do the cutting immediately....
... before boiling.
* A technical chef term.
** €2.45 for the four.
Cut the stem off flush with the base. I've also trimmed the top but this isn't essential. At home you would put them in a bowl of water with lemon juice added to stop the cut edges going brown but in a MH just do the cutting immediately....
... before boiling.
* A technical chef term.
** €2.45 for the four.
Enjoying your thread very much. Mena and I returning to Galicia again next month and will be exploring this region on our way through. I have an itch to scratch with Sad Hill Cemetery and the Picos on the way across and find your thread helpful. Safe Travels.
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Serve with the melted butter and some hollandaise sauce. I once did this with a home-made hollandaise but that's too much faff in a MH.
The eating is a bit hard to explain but you start by removing the "petals" and nibbling the base after dipping it in the sauces. With your teeth you extract the flesh.
Keep going until with small ones like these ones you reach this stage.
You'll know when you get to this point when you find you can eat the whole petal, not just nibble the base.
You can now cut them in half.
The chokes are the fibrous bit at the centre. Inedible with larger artichokes you can eat the lot with young ones.
End result.
Like mussels the waste takes up a larger volume than the original dish. The bowl had been emptied twice by this point.
So the lesson is, give globe artichokes a try if they are new to you.
The eating is a bit hard to explain but you start by removing the "petals" and nibbling the base after dipping it in the sauces. With your teeth you extract the flesh.
Keep going until with small ones like these ones you reach this stage.
You'll know when you get to this point when you find you can eat the whole petal, not just nibble the base.
You can now cut them in half.
The chokes are the fibrous bit at the centre. Inedible with larger artichokes you can eat the lot with young ones.
End result.
Like mussels the waste takes up a larger volume than the original dish. The bowl had been emptied twice by this point.
So the lesson is, give globe artichokes a try if they are new to you.
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I have three magnificent globe artichoke plants, and I grow them for the flowers, loved by butterflies, now reading this…….do I pick some to eat and deprive the butterflies? YES thanks for the recipe.Serve with the melted butter and some hollandaise sauce. I once did this with a home-made hollandaise but that's too much faff in a MH.
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The eating is a bit hard to explain but you start by removing the "petals" and nibbling the base after dipping it in the sauces. With your teeth you extract the flesh.
Keep going until with small ones like these ones you reach this stage.
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You'll know when you get to this point when you find you can eat the whole petal, not just nibble the base.
You can now cut them in half.
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The chokes are the fibrous bit at the centre. Inedible with larger artichokes you can eat the lot with young ones.
End result.
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Like mussels the waste takes up a larger volume than the original dish. The bowl had been emptied twice by this point.
So the lesson is, give globe artichokes a try if they are new to you.
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Wonderful thread, as some readers are thanking you for “another” thread, I need to follow this and go looking for others. I like your wit and the unusual places you find. Thanks.
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Cut them when small, much easier to prepare than big ones.
Blimey, I pick up a rucsack full on my local bike rides. Or I did. We don't find them very interesting, so I pass them by to look for veggies more useful.
Our Spanish friends strip off all the leaves, right to the hearts. A lot of waste and faff for what's left. They don't do the butter and sauce bit either.
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Yes about €4 in Spain…£8 in UK…… MUGA much superior though…or even CVNE..What else would you drink before Sunday lunch when staying in the Rioja region?
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I'm cooking lunch - which won't be hard, chop the stems off four small globe artichokes and boil them for thirty minutes. Serve with melted butter.
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Eating the hearts alone I can understand but without a sauce? I'm with you on the urgh!
Yes there is below the town but when we were there it had been invaded by youths in their cars so we moved to the camp site.Albarracin is certainly worth a visit, we stayed at the campsite but I think there is parking for MHs although without facilities. Might be wrong again on that, I haven't checked.
Off to Portugal and Spain in May.
Has anyone got any suggestions for a drink and or meal close to Portsmouth Ferry terminal in case we arrive early for our evening sailing?
Don't fancy all the mad rush to get a meal on board, especially as it sails at 2130 (or due to)
Has anyone got any suggestions for a drink and or meal close to Portsmouth Ferry terminal in case we arrive early for our evening sailing?
Don't fancy all the mad rush to get a meal on board, especially as it sails at 2130 (or due to)
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Have a search on here for "Parking near Portsmouth". You should find some ideas, one is near a pub I think.
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