• Day 27 - Mazarife to Hospital de Orbigo

    September 9, 2024 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    As you can tell, Teresa is much better at spelling the names of the towns than I am. I'm just going with the flow.

    A short day today, only 10 miles, so we took our time at breakfast and lunch. We visited with our camino friend Denise and then went to our albergues for an easy afternoon.
    This is a cool little village. They have a medieval festival in June where they celebrate jousting. As you come into town, you cross a bridge and the jousting grounds. We found a great pharmacy that is run by Maria. She was able to help us with our lotions and a brace that worked well on my achilles.

    Tomorrow is another shorter day to Astorga, where we're going to take another rest day before some mountain stages return.
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