Distance today: 41.4km Total Distance remaining: 260.5km After a lovely stay in astorga, sampling some of the wares at the chocolate museum, and having someone else do our laundry for us (the simple things in life), it was time to hit the road again. the walk out of astorga was unimpressive, cutting through the suburbs and the lowlands, but the promise of the mountains was in front of us. we powered over the flats and were soon at our first hill. our expectat...

Catch up... Leon to Hospital de Obrigo, distance hiked (yesterday): 34.7km Hospital de Obrigo, distance hiked (today): 15.9km Total distance remaining: 273.4km As you can see, we´ve broken 500+ in distance now, woo-hoo! The stages coming up are looking to be more mountainous than the last week of flat flat nothing. Should provide an interesting change! Yesterday we decided to take an alternative path out of Leon in order to save 4km in total distance for th...

Total distance today (yesterday) : 43.1kmTotal distance remaining: 326.6km Yesterday was a long day. Very long. In fact, I don't think that 'long' really does justice to what sort of day it really was. I'll try to explain.. The first leg yesterday was relatively normal. We had stayed in a small village called hermanillos de la calzada so we could walk along another long stretch of roman road. This lonely 17.5km stretch considered the best example in Spain. The ...

Distance traveled today: 26.8 kmDistance remaining: 396.6 km (half way)After a good night's sleep in our own room, we were again awakened by a commotion at around 5:30 am. It sounded as if someone was trying to break the door down, but again it was our compatriot pilgrims trying to get a jump start on the day, oblivious to either the noise they were making or the fact that there were others in the building who didn't share their super early starts. But I digress....

Total distance hiked today: 20.1km Total distance remaining: 423km Today was another very early start thanks to our french roommates getting out of bed at 545am (arrrrrggggggg), so we were on the road by 630am. It was chilly but very clear this morning, still lots of wind. Very cold on the ears! The road today was very flat and mostly along the main road between Fromista and Carrion...it was sorta boring to be honest! The mountain view and green hils were great...