Irrigation system.....
It’s a great city. Daniela and Tina has decided to hang out there an extra day so I got to hang out with them. Daniela’s brother (a high school bio teacher in a selfcontained class) has met up to walk the Camino,but unfortunately had to stop due to an infection(from walking too much and hurting his ankle). However, I got to hear what teaching high school was like in the Netherlands! #imadork.
Then some other people met up with us. One a British music teacher teaching in Egypt, the other a phys Ed teacher from Toronto. At dinner I realized I had seen the teacher from Toronto days earlier (I spoke with a teacher from Toronto he was walking with). We had passed a winery selling wine skins with wine, and he had decided to go back and buy one, and he said it was well worth the purchase.
Then I FaceTimed the nephews and niece for a bit (then with Trey on his phone for awhile becauseit had better reception and we made plans to take over the world....😂😂)
Hallway of be convent hotel...
Rest Day: Rest Day equals laundry day! Before laundry however I was able to have a cafe con leche before I headed to the cathedral. After the long and arduous audio tour of the cathedral in Burgos, I was a bit afraid. This audio tour was much shorter! The stained glass in Leon is some of the most magnificent I have ever seen. It was amazing! I wish I could have sat there all day!
After that I head to Casa Botines, one of only three Gaudi works outside of Catalonia. Similar style to his other works, but this also looked like it inspired Harry Potter! The building has become a museum to Gaudi and his life’s work and it was really cool to learn more (#architectsdaugher).
There was a nap, then laundry (and a book). Later I headed to the medieval walls. Leon was originally a Roman settlement and those wall are right outside my hotel (which was a convent).
Finally I did a tour of the Pantheon in San Isidora(Connected to my hotel). We saw a video about how they restored the frescoes (which was awesome!) in the pantheon are buried a whole bunch of royalty from Leon (but, due to the size of the caskets , clearly not buried with their bodies spread out.
I had grocery store gazpacho and jamonfor dinner because I was tired.
Day 22: woke up later than planned, but... that led to me running into Katie from S. Korea! We walked together for about 2 hours and we left Leon (which went on for forever). Along the way I also met a guy named Gabby who was from Madrid (his brother works in NYC for Santander). He loved talking to people from all over the Camino (he’s walked it before) because it was just like he imagined when he heard about it as a kid. Other than the people, the walk was boring (all on a path along a road) and when I got to San Martin (my home for theevening) I decided to walk 5 more miles to Hospital de Obrigo (21 miles total). It was relatively flatand all along the highway in zero shade😬. Glad I did it though. Found a great hostel and a bottom bunk in a room for four. However, still didn’t get a good nights sleep (according to my FitBit I sleep for under 4 hours, so lots of tossing and turning.
The first donkey had a GoPro on🤨
I want these irrigation ditches to be lazy rivers...
Day 23: today wasn’t too bad and I’m glad I Walk the additional 5 miles yesterday. The morning started out in corn fields which were quite lovely.
Can you find the rainbow the sprinklers made?
Medieval bridge?! 😂
Went through a few small towns before I hit Astorga.
People helping the peregrinos (pilgrims)
Another of Gaudi’s works outside of Catalonia was here. It’s right next to the cathedral which had an absolutely beautiful facade. I sat in a cafe for a bit so I could look at the two buildings (at this point I’m tired of going in buildings....).
☝🏻Cathedral👇🏻
The walk to my home for the night was about 45’minutes on flat land, but no shade😞.
Had gazpacho, fried eggs and chocolate flan for dinner and all was good!
Storks are always watching...
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