Yesterday we left the brilliant morning sunshine of Burgos, boarded a bus and travelled into overcast skies that became darker and darker as we approached Leon. As we left the Estacion de Autobuses after arriving in Leon, it began to rain and continued after we had found a room as the Hostal Orejas, ate a late lunch of ciabata, cheese, olives and spinach, and then went out on the town for needed supplies.
We successfully bought warm tights for Allison, a pair of hiking pants for Diane (I had brought only one pair of pants thinking it would be warm enough most days to walk in shorts!), stamps for postcards, throat lozenges (both of us have had colds and coughs but we´re almost all better now ...), toured the old town and Cathedral, and then ran through town to find the Santa Maria de Carbajalas Convent to attend a Benedictine Nuns sung evening vespers service that was like stepping back in time some 500 to 600 years. Hauntingly beautiful and our first experience of a Spanish mass.
Today, after spending time and money yesterday looking for warm clothes, the morning cold turned to warmth and sunshine as we walked 24 km across the meseta.
We may find more cold weather yet ... In two days we will walk over the highest point in the Camino at 1500 m, and later we have chilly Galicia to look forward to.
Did we mention that it has so far been the COLDEST May in 100 years in Spain!
We are glad to be walking again; after only one day off it felt like we had taken a long break from the open skies and paths of the Camino.
Looking forward to our first longer day tomorrow when we will walk 30 km heading to Astorga.
a Dios,
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Hi Diane and Allison, glad to hear you are ok. I can't imagine how beautiful the music must have been by the Nuns. I am glad that you had a little break and hope that your colds are on the mend. Stay well, look after each other and enjoy your day. Always thinking of you,
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