Day 2 - León
Ruth's attempt at a stealth photo of the Stepford Twins. Today was a day for visiting Roman walls, the Parador, and the Gaudà Museum....
Ruth's attempt at a stealth photo of the Stepford Twins. Today was a day for visiting Roman walls, the Parador, and the Gaudà Museum....
We left at 0550. No great sunrise today. The streets were sometimes wet from the rain overnight. But with the fan running we never heard...
Our hotel room was nice but no air conn. After a quick shower, it was out into the town. It's hard to say whether times are hard or they...
This is today's sunrise. I'll include this one because I can, as its my blog. Again a long white track beside a road. Two people ahead...
We're on the way through Sahagún. This is today's bridge shot. And the church shot. This is on the route into Sahagun. The statues show...
We had fun escaping from the hostel. We spoke to one of 3 American guys, who was trying to find a Jacotrans envelope. Jacotrans are one...
We are staying at Albergue La Morena. I was intrigued by the name. She was an original owner of this place many years ago, when the...
We left Carrion at 0545. I swear I've seen more sunrises in the last few days than in the rest of my life. But they can be amazing,....
A decent Basque brew and the drink of the day. I will keep adding different beers to this post Grimbergen Rouge, a fruity Belgian beer...
Today's walk started at 0550. We had a bit of trouble finding our way today. The Yellow Arrow of Santiago was somehow hard to find. We...
The room in the hostal was great. Apologies for the photo, but it was at 0550 the next morning as we left. The room even had a terrace....
We left the Albergue at 0545. The sun wasn't up but we knew the way out of town. It was a long haul up by 100m, which doesn't sound a lot...
This is a big town, at least 3 ATMs and a supermarket or two plus lots of alburgues, hostels and hotels. But it's closed on Mondays!...
We left this morning at 0550,have walked 11k and arrived at Hontanas at 0800. This is breakfast - I'd forgotten how nice KitKat can be....
We left Burgos before 0600. Its a big town and we wanted to get out of it as early as possible. Hopefully you'll get an idea of the town....
We followed these guys into Burgos. They took the route around the airport avoiding the industrial zone and then through a country park...
We're staying in Ages for the night. We've been driven here by taxi, sorted out by the lovely lady at the Bocateria. We arrived at Agés,...
The plan today was to walk 24k to Burgos, me carrying a pack, Ruth's pack being shipped and Ruth bunny hopping to Burgos, leading Sherpa...
And that theory is... In most local pubs or drinking establishments there are usually three middle aged to old men who are nearly always...
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