Wednesday 16 September 2009

NO PHOTOS

Hi everybody, I can't upload any photos, all hotels have very good wi-fi system but upload photos on to the blog does not always work.
Everything is fine, we are happy but tired...
We left monday morning from Fromista, a very beautiful but small town and ride strait and flat roads along the whole journey until to Sahagun, Our Italian friend Giuseppe was still with us, Juan the Spanish one have left early in the morning. We are in Castilla y Leon Provence but everywhere you can notice that the Leonise want separate themselves from the Castlillan. This area around Sahagun is very poor and not beautiful. From Sahagun we travelled first to the town of Leon, the most horrible ride with Camino de Compostelle going through industrial areas, dirty back yards, the Leonise don't want to make any efford to welcome the pilgrimers on their territory, most of the signs are tagged and the European sign of Santiago de Compostelle that advertise: "European Cultural Itinery" has nothing to do with culture, the camino runs all the time next to the national roads or we have to ride on the road with plenty cars and trucks....
Our friend stayed in the Town of Leon, because he has pre-booked hotels and we just wanted out of Leonise provence so we carried on until Asturga. Weather has change and the morning are cold and we expected some rain for today. So I bought some longer pants for me and a pair of cloves and Gerald bought a jacket and oh boy how gratefull we were today to have those clothes. Today from Asturga we started climing up slowly and later we have to ride up 8km hard up hill. Cold and almost raining... Up at the Cruz de Ferro, 1500m altitude like our house in Andorra it was really cold, then 12km down hill with that fresh air and wind....GRRRRR.... luckly we found a very nice place to eat a mountain lunch and warm up at the same time. After that we entered in to the Bierzo area a valley with vines. The last 25km went through the vines and met some people harvesting the grapes...Dusty road going up and down to the Villafranca de Bierzo... A small town where the shops look like the shops 25 years ago... But we have really been lucky, until now we have always found a nice hotels to stay and some very modern but still good price... I will tomorrow again... maybe not we are trying to sleep tomorrow in Samos a convent kept by munks, so I don't think they will have wi-fi... Our pre-paid internet connect was suppose to keep us going for 10 days when ever we choose to use them but, actually it was just a period of 10 days... So that's not working... Those who has acces to facebook, go to see there Gerald has put photos there too... Good night to everybody, time to go to sleep, tomorrow more long up hills...

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