Laguardia Spain

Travelled:131km
Visited: La Rioja vineyards, Laguardia
Stay: Vitoria Gasteiz-free parking and services GPS N42.86684 W2.68539

When you set off for the day, you are never sure what surprises the day may bring.
Our destination was the Rioja wine country. Driving along we had beautiful views of the valley with many hill top fortresses. 

We drove into Haro to find many people soaked in wine having partaken in the annual wine throwing battle.

 We decided to continue on and managed to find a cellar door that was opened. Unfortunately being a Sunday nearly all others were closed. After the purchase of several bottles we made our way to Laguardia.

 It was festival day here as well but no wine throwing. We strolled around enjoying the local wine and tapas. We admired the richly sculpted polychrome interior portal in the church.

We then noticed gates were being used to close off one of the streets and found out that they were having the running of the bulls through the town. Maybe not quite Pamplona style, but it was fun to watch. 

We then had terrific views of the whole valley when we drove up and over the mountain to Vitoria Gasteiz.