{"id":1860,"date":"2016-09-05T21:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2016-09-05T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T20:11:04","slug":"ran-out-of-time-to-put-anything-much-here-for-today-5916-but-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/pelerinage2016\/ran-out-of-time-to-put-anything-much-here-for-today-5916-but-a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ran out of time to put anything much here for today (5\/9\/16) but a good day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s me smiling at you all from Le\u00f3n.\u00a0 He’s on the basilica right opposite the cheap hotel I managed to find when I arrived in Le\u00f3n at about 14.50.\u00a0 Took a while to find somewhere and then to find the reality, not the internet page, and then to find a real person who would let us in.\u00a0 Then a shower was vital as I’d done this:<\/p>\n

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That’s 107km of mostly fairly flat but increasingly hot Spain done.\u00a0 OK, the last two km were going round in circles in Le\u00f3n itself but it’s still 105km of real progress.<\/p>\n

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Google maps says between 322 and 342km still to go to Compostela but I know better than to trust her.\u00a0 This was her idea of part of the route to the hotel:<\/p>\n

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It was so much further to find a way round that I did get off and coax Toto down those two flights of steps with a pigeon looking on in amusement:<\/p>\n

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Eight cycling days left and I know that a lot of what’s left is pretty seriously hilly.\u00a0 However, I think, barring accidents, that I should be safe now to make it to Compostela and back for the family wedding, but sadly, no Finisterre for me.<\/p>\n

Le\u00f3n is beautiful.\u00a0 My architect hero Guadi created a turkey in my view:<\/p>\n

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I’m told that many people like it, but that was a really, really bad day for Guadi in my view.\u00a0 I’m not a huge fan of the Sagrada Familia, but I love everything else I’ve ever seen that I he did and at least the Sagrada had, what can I say?\u00a0 Panache?\u00a0 Hubris?\u00a0 I think he fell out with people here in Le\u00f3n and that this was a joke on his part.\u00a0 Unlikely I guess.<\/p>\n

It was acually the first bit of significant architecture here that I saw as we arrived:<\/p>\n

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That’s Toto telling Guadi it’s a turkey:<\/p>\n

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Guadi wasn’t listening.<\/p>\n

OK. Enough silliness. The basilica is magical, the cathedral is wonderful, none of the grandiose overkill of Burgos and a similar amount of Gothic stained glass to my beloved Chartres, and not dissimilar period, but underlines why Chartres is breath taking as the windows here are interesting, but really don’t turn your stomach upside down. To be fair, the unity, and much of the stone carving do.\u00a0 But that all has to wait as, talking of stomachs, mine needs feeding or we won’t be making a good next step tomorrow.<\/p>\n

And on that note: this was from last night in Carri\u00f3n de los Cordes.\u00a0 Jamon Iberico as advised by my Catalan friend Guillem.\u00a0 It was every bit as good as it looks.<\/p>\n

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But I finished the day off there like this:<\/p>\n

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You can’t really see it there (no, not the beer silly), that’s reckoned to be the best Romanesque Christ Pantokrator between those two lights.\u00a0 I think it came out well with the floodlight actually.\u00a0 I think it’s hard to disagree with the accolade but I’m hardly an expert and a smartphone camera (though great, as you say Haroula), can’t do it justice either.<\/p>\n

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Tonight I will eat and drink looking across the square at that basilica.<\/p>\n

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