Daily Archives: September 9, 2015

I hate to say it, but another great day for walking. Cool and clear in the morning, with light cloud cover by the afternoon. A couple of long stretches without a break today. 

  
We are making our way towards Leon, and should get there tomorrow. We started the day at first light, hoping to catch breakfast at the first stop. 
Which we did, a small cafe that was a little alternative, offering wishes with the coffees and burning incence in the cafe. 

Again long distances over fairly flat featurless farmland, with a few rolling hills. 

At one of the stops later in the day we came across a couple of donkeys, it appears a couple were walking the Camino with everything loaded onto the donkeys.

  
We arrived at our destination, which had a very nice terrace garden out back, where we had a couple of refreshments and cooled down.

  
The day had started to heat up, and the humidity is increasing. It tried to rain a couple of times, and dark  clouds are on the horizon. 

We are pleased every morning to find its a clear, cloudless day. We started a little slower than we normally would, beginning at around 8:30am. It had already started to warm up.  Fortunately the first couple of villages were at the 3km and 6km marks and presented an opportunity to make any adjustments to our gear and have a coffee stop.

We found a town where Hobbits come from. Even though the sign says they don’t. 

  
Some families have underground Bodega’s and use these for storage of wine, food, etc. The resulting entrances to the undergound storage rooms look like a scene from The Shire.
After that it was 7.5km push into Sahagun, a largish town ringed by light industry.  Before entering the town we stopped at a very small church where we were served a small drink of very sweet wine and a sweet biscuit. Just a little sugar hit to keep us going.

We wandered around Sahagun looking for some were to eat, the Pilgrims route skirted around the Plaza Mayor down little side streets. Eventually we found our way back the Plaza Mayor and a good selection of Cafes and Bars.  

Savaging is also the official half way point of the Camino France. 

  An hour break and we were ready for the 10km push into Bercianos del Real Camino (which is actually the middle of nowhere). We are staying at a little Hostal with a bar downstairs and now sitting in the bar with the locals preparing this post. Might be having a Vino or two as well!