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San Martin del Camino

The picture is of a wall in tonight's Albergue - rather a quirky one with only 8 beds.
The stay in León ended in style last night, with Mass at the Cathedral followed by tapas for nine at one of the many restaurants in León.  
The group was enhanced by Carlos, whom we only met today, but who is relatively local and knows all the best drinks!
Then off this morning for another 25km.  Not the greatest of walks - pretty well entirely next to the road, and while the views increasingly show distant mountains the traffic between the path and the view makes pictures uninspiring.   And despite there being several villages along the way, hardly any of the coffee bars were open!  So it was 15km before a coffee....
But the Albergue here is good, run by an Austrian, small, comfortable and simple (the Albergue, not the Austrian!).  And on the way out of León I assume greeted by Ian and Carlin, from South Africa, with whom I'd walked out of Roncesvalles what seems a long time ago, and last seen in Logroño - I had thought they were well ahead.  Then they ended up in the same Albergue tonight!
It's hot and dry here, by the way, for all of you back in England!

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