Hotel Nh Plaza Mayor León
Plaza Mayor 15-17 León, Castile-León, 24003, Spain and Canary Islands
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Back on the Road Again
... today a group from Korea, some from Japan, and a young New Yorker who appeared to be enjoying himself hugely.
Astorga was a Roman garrison town and because it is on a crossroads between important east-west and north-south routes, it has been the scene of lots of fighting over the centuries, the latest being a big battle between the British and the French in the Peninsular Wars (Napoleon won). We have inspected Roman ruins, and another huge gothic cathedral - ...
Von León nach Villar de Mazarife (879 m)
... sein. Sie versprach, an der Stelle, auf die er einen Stein werfe, werde eine Kapelle entstehen. Der moderne Kirchenbau stammt aus den 60er Jahren und ist in seiner an Le Corbusier angelehnten Beton-Ästhetik eher umstritten. Um so mehr überrascht der aufwändig gearbeitete Barockaltar aus dem 18. Jahrhundert mit einer Mariendarstellung aus dem 16. Jahrhundert.
Vor der Kirche versammeln sich viele Schulkinder mit Fahnen und selbstbemalten Plakaten, die dazu ...
Home from home
... after about 24km and I was planning to go a bit further, but I didn’t fancy sticking to the main road and remembered what I had been told first thing I the morning – lovely for 20km, then horrible. I checked into the Albergue in San Martin del Camino, paid my €3 and had it confirmed that the path followed the road all the way to León.
I decided to take the bus in the morning, then wondered about getting one today. This could have caused confusion, but ...
A Day in the Life
... seats, or standing closer to some students, or group work may help the students that struggle to learn and pay attention. Some teachers listen and some smile at me and go on about their day. But as I said they are good kids and even the “lazy” ones have a lot to contribute if you can just get them focused long enough. So I love Mondays because I get to stay in class with this group all day and try to hold awkward conversations ...
Stained glass and slaughter
... the walls. OK, I promise no more art history/architecture lessons today.
The cathedral was very chilly though, so we headed straight across the square to a café, where the boys drank another strangely thick chocolate concoction. We then strolled on a bit and came to another church – a Romanesque one! Which, pleasingly, the boys were able to identify…excellent, I wasn’t just talking to myself. Two cool things about this ...



