Logroņo (July 20 - 26, 2003)
We spent a week in Logroņo,
Spain, where I attended the 8th International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference. We stayed at University Student
Residence, not far from campus nor downtown. It was comfortable,
relatively cheap accommodation and offered a decent breakfast. The
chimney outside of our room was inhabited by a stork couple. They
kept awful noise in the early morning hours.
Since I spent most of the forenoons attending the conference, we
usually hit the town at siesta time. Fortunately, some of the places
were open for tourists. Unfortunately, those places were not the ones
with the best food or drinks.
As usual, most of the time we spent just walking the streets up and
down, stopping here and there for a beer or glass of wine. We also
visited the House of Sciences across the river Ebro.
See below our photographs of Logroņo (and us), then continue to the picture
page of wine tour we took, and finally enjoy some views of the road trip from
Logroņo to Madrid.
A view from our residence window |
Another view over the pool |
A camisole |
De Portales |
Bar La Viguita |
De Portales again |
Old and new Logroņo |
Puente de Hierro over the river Ebro |
Iglesia de Santiago el Real |
The park by the Ebro, where we went running in the mornings. |
Puente de Piedra. In the background there is the Plaza de
Toros |
The House of Sciences |
Art not science |
A male ostrich |
Tomi's playing for money |
Flap dance |
Flap dance II |
Plaza de Abastos, market built on the foundations of the old church of San Blas in 1930 |
Jamon jamon! |
Punk! |
Cerveza! |
La Concatedral de Santa Maria La Redonda |
Thirsty night crawlers |
Gourmet meal with red wine (and Hemingway) |
It's getting cold |
Lost |
Backyard |
Breakfast |
Anorectic dream |
Too much vacation makes Tei X-ray |
Working hours |
Night flowers |
Logroņo recycles |
Last night out |
Breakfast on the road |