Day 17

Today the pilgrims woke up in a little bit of heaven our rooms were so nice in the monestary, simple but beautiful, with many paintings of the masters and other antiques in the hallways, gorgeous antique rugs on the floor.
We had breakfast at 8am and then Joanie and Sandy started their walk.....21 km to Ville de Maztrife.  Jan and I would join them later by taxi cab.  We felt our feet would benefit from one more day of rest and all four of us will walk again tomorrow.  One benefit of having ailing feet is that we got to see a lot of Leon.....when otherwise we may have just been walking through.
The village we are in appears to be very poor, only albergues to stay in.  We are in one called Tia Pepe, and it feels like it should be in Mexico!  The church is right next door to us...there are three tall towers and each has a giantic storks nest on top!
We had a pilgrims dinner (all that is available in small villages) and a couple of bottles of vino tino and prepared for bed.  Nothing else to do!  We will be rising early again tomorrow and hope to get most of our km in before the sun gets too hot.  I know some of you are already into winter rain...believe me we would love to have some of it!  We keep hoping it will get cooler as the days get closer to October.
So nice to receive the comments on the blog and know you are thinking of us!  It helps!
love from pilgrims l, 2, 3 and 4