We walked down to the river in Leon and crossed the bridge where John walked to head off to Santiago, a trip that took us five hours by train took him 10 days!!!
Walked all over and came across a massive flea market, looked like a K Mart liquidation sale. Did about five kms. and then decided it was Siesta time
Got to love this culture lol.
Woke up went out and bought some chocolates and had another sangria before settling on pizza at the same restaurant as last night. The night life is unbelievable, everyone and their dogs are out walking makes me thing of the song: grab the old ladies and babies and everyone goes…..
Even in cool rainy weather it never stops. The last day in Leon we had to kill four hours till our train, left the hotel around noon, then killed time walking around, finally walked down this out of the way alley and found a little store that actually had a hat I liked and cheap too. Met two pilgrims in there that commented on John’s Blue Jay hat. It turns out they were from Duncan – about 10 km from our home in Mill Bay BC. Go figure eh!!! Finally it was time to go to the train station, got on the train and travelled for three hours. The train stopped and suddenly were the only ones on the train. The conductor comes in yelling at us in Spanish apparently everyone was ordered off the train but since it was in Spanish no comprende… anyway we managed to figure out the train was over and everyone was being hustled onto buses. No idea where we were going but there were a few other English speaking people in the same boat…erm train… so we followed them. Took an hour bus ride in the dark in a winding twisting road thru the mountains to another town where we disembarked and were ushered to another train which then proceeded to Santiago and arrived on time!
Leon
It’s amazing how u meet people abroad who live very close at home . Funny old world.
Yes it is amazing.