Day 19 ties sep 27

We woke at 6 for breakfast at 7 - eggs we could hear them sizzling in copious amounts of olive oil - they were delicious! French bread was toasted - it is always served dry-this morning the señora showed user should pour olive oilon it - yum! Coffee and biscuits finished it off nicely. The weather was cool and thewalk fairly flat for about 6 Km then we climbed but nothing too strenuous. Next we came up in a juice stand in a farmers field and to our surprise who should be there but young Luke. We hadn't seen him for days . Juice fruit and cookies for a donation. We stopped tocsin for 1/2 an hour. Soon we were on the road again & down in thevallwy we could see 3 towns- we were set for the furthest one - Astorga . We first walked into sanjusto de la vega till became across a bar - we ordered lemonade and cokes and scab - wisely I think to drive us to the centre of Astorga about 3 Km of pavement that we thought it best to miss. I'm sure our feet will thank us. A Ross from the cathedral and theGaudi museum is the Gaudi hotel we havea room for 4 for 100 euros. Showers all around and then we will head out for lunch. First we had a drink at a sidewalk cFe beside the cathedral. We went for the 3 course Spanish meal with as much wine as you candrink. We then toured the cathedral till it closed & walked about & bored with that we came back to the hotel - we have nobooks & only Spanish tv so are reduced o doing jan's crossword puzzles till we go to bed!