Wheels and wine

Statistics from Santiago’s pilgrim office suggest that up to 20% of all Camino pilgrimages are now made by cyclists. The rugged trails require a mountain bike, but it is a varied journey taking in northern Spain's high, dry meseta (plateau), the vibrant greenery of Galicia and – across its early stages – the famed wine region of La Rioja (pictured). In the town of Irache, one fountain gives pilgrims the option, in the true biblical tradition, of filling their drinking bottles with either water or wine