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Day 25 - Foncebadon to Ponferrada
... off work to do the Camino and a few other trips in Europe. However, surely the best part of the day would come when I left Molinaseca and passed a weird metal sculpture. It was dedicated to the "chorizo"...a huge metal sculpture of a piece of chorizo and a piece of string falling from it! That beats the Cruz de Hierro any day of the year. That together with the sign indicating the town of "Calamocos" (mucus drencher), kept my faith in humanity for the rest of the day. ...
Breaking the 200kms!!'
... br> The trip started out on a paved road but changed to a dirt path after about 2 Kms. Again we experienced the scree filled path, picking our way over stones and shale, and uneven folds of lava flow rock formations. The girls met us on the road after about an hour and the four of us stopped in Molinseca for coffee and a small tortilla. Then we were off again, for the final push into Ponferrada.
On the outskirts of Ponferrada the girls left us to go to ...
Cruz de Ferro - the highest point on the Camino
... who seemed to speak only Spanish. Manny got a bit shirty and started to walk away until I said something and then they mentioned that they spoke English and German. I called Manny back and they were able to give him some directions in German which turned out to be not much help but it was nice of them anyway. We dubbed this couple 'the young Deutsch couple'. We finally found a hotel but they were booked out. Thankfully there was a young Austrian guy looking for accommodation ...
Let There be Light!!!!!!
... here was so fancy!); it’s not in the new part of town (the town is 5 blocks long and 2 wide…); did we mention it’s actually NOT normal to not have electricity for that long and you might be getting scammed? Well…we paid the deposit on Monday and signed the lease so thanks for the advice but please shut up now!
The owners of the place are between the ages of 89 and 1000 years old. Most of the people ...
El Castillo de los Templarios
... met last night as he was one of the people, as a matter of fact with the lady from France and Jerry, who was having dinner with us.
It was hard to explain but we didn't really feel like joining them today while they had breakfast so we didn't. Even yesterday we were hesitant in sitting with them for dinner although we did. And it appeared that they would have welcomed us into their group as they were set to start out their day on El Camino but we didn't ...