Day 19- Leon to Leon (0 km)

Another rough one on the trail. Wooo dog. We promise to buckle down after this luxurious break. We want to try to stay with the recommended lengths in the book after this in the hope of making it to Finisterra on foot by the 8th. But we won´t hurt ourselves trying, of course.

Thanks for the warning about snow too. We looked at the weather today and it looks like it´s going to get colder this week. We´ll see how that goes.

Last night we had some momentous occassions. 1. We stayed out past 10pm (until 4am in fact). 2. We ate blood sausage for the first time. 3. We ate tongue for the first time.

Pretty good evening.

We left around 9pm to get tapas, they were all mighty tastey. We are already making plans to recreate a lot of them in Carbondale for a Sunday dinner. We went to the bar Maria´s parents own but don´t manage and got a ton of free food and wine. It´s all about who you know. My favorite was this really really tender steak with loads of salt.

We met up with a bunch of her friends from high school later (I poured coke on one of them, but she didn´t seem to mind too much). We went to a couple of discotecas and Justin and I practiced our Latin dancing. A lovely night all and all minus the intense smoke in all the places. I´ll be very happy to get back to Illinois and the smoke free nights.

Today we did laundry and relaxed. We went and saw a lot of cathedrals in the afternoon and hung out with Maria´s grandma. We made a very late lunch too of chicken and dumplings for the whole family.

I can´t remember if I´ve mentioned this, but early on in the camino I mentioned to someone that in America we usually eat between 5:30 and 7. No one would believe me and insisted that I was making that up.

So we finished our ¨lunch¨around 630 and are now hanging out till dinner and BINGO later.

We hope to be on the trail around 11 tomorrow- we´ve already stocked up on groceries for the Sunday shut down.

Love to all!! Thanks as always for the advice/comments/questions!