Walked today: No walk. Camino2023: 185 mi
We slept in this morning until 7:00… then decided to do a test walk from our hotel to the bus station to make sure we knew the way. It took us nearly 3 minutes to make a wrong turn and two more minutes to realize we were lost. But we quickly retraced our steps and got back on track. Better to get off track on a test run in daylight than for real, tomorrow morning at 5:00 am in the dark!
It took us 18 minutes to make the walk, so we’ll plan on 30 tomorrow morning, We got breakfast at Cafeteria Duma then returned to our hotel, stopped at an ATM on the way to recharge our supply of Euros.
Jim took a brief walk to take a few photos of the Catedral and the avenue leading to it from downtown León.
Our hotel is actually on the Camino and a few steps from ruins of the old city fortifications that surround much of the older part of the city,
Our credentials do not have enough space for all the stamps we will collect by the time we reach Santiago. This is because we spend twice as long to walk the Camino Frances as most pilgrims (50+ days vs 31). And we must have enough spaces for two stamps per day for the final 100 km of the Camino into Santiago. We realized this before leaving home and purchased a second credential to hold all the stamps. To make it all official, so we qualify for the compostela at the end, we visited the Benedictinas Santa María de Carbajal Albergue, which is authorized to officialize our second credentials .
The afternoon was devoted to cooking and eating our main meal, washing and drying all our dirty clothing and getting organized for our departure at 5:00 tomorrow morning… and getting to bed early as we have a long walk planned for tomorrow.
Jimandi 