Camino De Santiago Day 24 Visiting Leon

Today we took a day off in Leon, and rested and pampered our weary bodies. We are Vegans, walking the camino in Winter with our 6 month old baby son, and sharing our experiences, joys, pain and the lovely countryside as we go.

We didn’t stay in the albergue in Leon as Indigo was teething a little and we also just wanted a room to ourselves for the night so we stayed in Pension Blanca in Leon.

If you have been reading our daily blogs then you may wonder what happened between Mansilla and Leon. Well we arrived in Mansilla, fairly exhausted from a very long day of walking the Camino De Santiago De Compostela.

The Albergue in Mansilla doubled up as  a meatery/butchers shop and had pigs legs hanging everywhere. As vegans, this was not a place we felt we could stay in, especially as the smell was foul.

Our only other choice was to catch the local bus service into Leon, instead of the boring long walk through Leons long stretch of industrial waste land. We were glad to have taken the bus as we gazed out of the window on route to the centre of Leon.

There is lot’s of history in Leon and beautiful old architecture. there are also many cool shops and we found it to be all in all a high vibrational city, if that makes sense to you.

There is a Roman district, which is clear from the architecture and square type structures, and there is also a gothic part of the city, which is also beautiful.

There are many shops or stores in Leon which sell cool trinkety kind of stuff. I even found Frodo’s sword and was tempted to buy it but what I was really looking for was Gandalf’s stick/wand, which I would have liked to walk with for the remaining part of the Camino and through Galicia.

While in Leon Victoria took the opportunity to go to an osteopath as her big toe and hip was out of alignment. He adjusted her back and  massaged her foot and then tapped the toe with kinesiology tape.

I took the opportunity to go to a spa and have a full body massage, which was bliss!

We are two thirds or more through the Camino De  Santiago and we are looking forward to the journey from Leon as it is said to be more interesting than the middle part which we had just completed. Galicia here we come!

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