Up at 7.30 for the included breakfast which turned out to be
very enjoyable. One had to choose between multiple styles of bread, cereal, scrambled
eggs, bacon, little sausages (about half the size of a cocktail frankfurt), yoghurt, coffee, chorizos, ham, chicken meat,
a couple of different cheeses, juice. All in all plenty of choice for everyone.
Just as well we’ll be walking soon.
Caught a taxi to Madrid station where we connected with our
train to Leon. A good way to see a lot of the countryside. The parts of Spain
we saw reminded us a lot of the wide brown land, with fields of hay and
sunflower and we passed through a number of towns and cities.
Leon is very pretty and still has lots of the old historical
buildings (see photos). Spent the afternoon wandering and sampling some of the
local food. The lads then decided they would see what this siesta thing was all
about and all of us ended falling deeply asleep for about 4 hours and we only
made our way into the city for dinner at about 9PM. Had a late dinner of salad and zarzuela which was magnificent. and
arrived home about midnight everyone thinking no way would we sleep but we
needn’t have worried everyone drifted off and slept soundly (or at least Pete
and I did J).
So tomorrow we have a full day in Leon.
Eric:
Woke up a wee bit seedy this morning. It must be the jetlag.
Nothing to do with drinks the night before. And definitely nothing to do with
the pint o' guinness nightcap we had.
Hotel breakfast, bags packed and by 08:00 we were in our way
to the train station to catch our train to León.
Three hours, countless fields of corn and sunflowers later
we were in León, with its historical buildings, anatomically correct lion
statues and of course more pulpo and jamon.
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