A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Logroño, Spain and Canary Islands by TravelPod blogger Jamie_pete titled "The beauty of La Rioja" Jamie_pete’s travel blog entry: "This has been a tough but very enjoyable day. After a meal of tapas (with the barman and I speaking in French as neither understood each other´s language!) and a comfortable night in Hotel Eslava, I made the most of the buffet breakfast before heading out of this lovely, vibrant town in the direction of Logroño, capital of the La Rioja region. As I rode out of Pamplona I reflected on the last time that I visited the city, in 1975. On that occasion I was arrested at gunpoint as Lynn and I drove south on our way to the Costa Blanca. It was around two in the morning and our car had been hit by a drunk riding a small motorcycle. I picked him up, dusted him off, shook hands and off he wobbled with his now buckled front wheel. We continued our journey around the wide avenues of Pamlpona following the confusing one-way system when two military police officers stepped off the kerb and levelled their guns at us. I was marched off with the engine still running and the driver´s door open, leaving Lynn, a non-driver in those days, alone in the car, clutching the bail bond that would hopefully be used to rescue me at some point. These were the days of Franco´s Spain and of Basque unrest in the area, so no real surprises. The officers marched me back to the scene of the accident where we were soon joined ...