Poor Maura was a bit traumatised from waking up in the middle of the night to a cat sitting on the floor staring at her but we did sleep. But, with all the creams we have been putting on she decided to leave out her contacts. So there we were, at half four in the morning, herself blind and I wrecked, chomping away on the driest loaf of bread imaginable, under the stars, bricking it! It was cool though, trains passing in the distance, shooting stars- although it was all a blur to Maura :) we eventually came to a village but everything was still closed so by the time we got around to having breakfast we were starved. 2 coffees, toast, a croissant and a kit kat later we were out the road again. Met sonia somewhere along the road and we landed in Leon at about 2 o clock. Sonia was staying with a friend of hers and Maura and myself got a pension - one room with two beds all to ourselves... Luxury. The landlady even washed our clothes for us. Inside in the room I said to Maura, "there is an awful smell of smoke in here". Later, when we went out to see the place- it transpired that the town hall, on the street adjacent to us, was actually on fire! Mental. We went up to see the cathedral. Not as spectacular as Burgos on the outside and we weren't allowed in because there was a wedding on. The stained glass inside is meant to be lovely- better than the Harry Clarke's?
I'm not sure. Anyway, we were so knocked, we went on the tourist choo-choo thing. We were moving!!! Without using out feet!! Amazing. I hope that wasn't cheating. We decided to go out for a proper real dinner and then we had to go to the farmacia for supplies. We had to a bit of blister surgery and between the lot we didn't get to bed till about quarter to 12. Lights out in the albergues is usually half 10 :)
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