León

So, a good rest day! Lots of sleep, a leisurely start to the day, and a stop at a pharmacy to get cold meds and compeed (which, if you are not in the know, is for blisters.) My first walk of the morning apparently was at the Hour of Beer Delivery (see photo). I explored the Cathedal and an adjacent diocesan museum. The Gothic stonework and the stained glass was mind bending, it really was.

It was nice watching so many local people circulate through the great space in front of the Cathedral and the surrounding streets of the old city in the evening. Many kids and many small dogs on leashes. All of us, milling about at our usual human scale in the shadow of those incredible flying buttresses, built of course by us humans, but clearly with such a different scale in mind.Read more