When the sun rises in the west

Most mornings I am up an hour or so before sunrise. The first hour or so I walk under the stars with the sky slowly lightening. As we are always walking towards the west, it is only when I remember to turn round that I finally see the yellows and pinks of the sunrise spreading across the sky behind me. This morning, after a quick double espresso in a bar in Puerta Villarente, the skies had no moon or stars as the expectation is for rain (possibly for the next 5 days, but best not to dwell on that). Today the lightening sky was ahead of me. These are the lights of Leon approaching 12 km ahead. Like any good Catholic girl I am hoping to reach Leon Cathedral in time for 11am mass. I spent most of the time listening to a podcast on the Bhagavad Gita. A nice little mix of cliches, cultures, ancient spritualities and modern technologies 🤣🤣

Met loads of people I knew in the square outside the cathedral and was great to be sociable after a fairly lonesome couple of days. After this was a wet and boring 20km trudge to meet Maz and Dalia which fortunately will never have to do again!Meer informatie