We walked 8km along the freeway, which despite the nice weather, was a pretty crummy walk. You can't even have a proper conversation with the sound of the cars and trucks drowning your words out.
We eventually saw some peregrinos at a bus stop and convinced ourselves that we also wanted to catch the bus into León, as we knew from experience that walking into a big city is the worst.
After waiting for about half an hour, we discovered that the bus doesn't normally go to this town on a Saturday. We were instructed to go to the next town where there would be a bus. So off we walked again.
We were waiting at the bus stop again before finally working out how to read the timetable. Turns out the bus doesn't run at all on a Saturday. Awesome. So we decided to take a taxi into the city.
Made the right decision and rewarded ourselves with Chinese food.
After that, we played tourist for awhile. We planned to have the next day off to see everything properly, but it was fun to just wander.
What we really wanted to do was buy some new clothes- I really wanted some new shoes because my sneakers didn't seem to love life too much, Noni wanted some shorts and possibly a pair of sandals to walk in. But no. We couldn't do that because it was siesta. And then because it was a Saturday, half the stores we wanted to go to (stores aimed at pilgrims) weren't open after siesta. And of course, the next day was Sunday so nothing was open then. Ugh.
So here are some shots from playing tourist:
Cool Saint:
Gaudi building:
Soldier stabbing crocodile on Gaudi building:
Leon Cathedral:
Weird dancing Jesus in the archway above the entrance to the cathedral:
Us being tourists:
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