Today we left Leon a bit later than we wanted but not late enough to get the stamp from the Cathedral. Yesterday, being Sunday, there was nobody there to give us the stamp and we thought it would be too late to wait until the opening of the Cathedral. As for today, without a doubt the highlight of the day was the stop in front of Agapito´s home in San Miguel del Camino. Agapito, a man we did not meet, only his son and grandson who happened to look from behind the curtain, ia a man who from the goodness of his heart put a table and a bench in front of his house, a bench covered with baskets full of cookies, candies, and fruits and tiny tomatoes from his garden. The table had a notebook for the ones who wanted to leave him a message as well as a stamp and an ink pad for stamping our credentiales, our "passports" for the duration of this journey. The hike was flat for most, if not all, of its 22 kms. Tomorrow´s hike will be longer, 26-28 kms, and a bit more varied in its elevations, but not too much, yet :-)
The albergue is perhaps the best municipal albergue yet, not only because of the arrangement of the rooms-kitchen-bathrooms but also because of the hospitalero, or the person in charge of it. The albergue has one BIG room with single beds and a collection of bunk beds and then a series of cubicles with trunks, for the ones who don´t remember...if bunks have 2 beds, trunks have 3. so our cubicle has 2 trunks. for the moment, we are 3 people in it. The cubicle has no door and there is a window towards the back of the albergue. I expect a cool night :-) A welcomed change after the past nights which varied between very warm and VERY warm. Tomorrow we shall travel to Astorga.
