Astorga

Today's walk was our nicest so far. It was hard to leave that heavenly B&B but we need to move forward in order to reach Santiago. Mercedes hugged us all good bye and we were on our way by 9:00 am. The scenery is changing quickly as we head towards the Mountains of Leon. Today we walked through gently rolling hills on paths of good sized stone. The sun was shining and the temperature warmed up to around 60 which was perfect for walking. We reached Astorga by 2:00. Astorga is a lovely city of about 12,000 people. Of course there is cathedral here but we skipped that tour. Next to the cathedral there is a gorgeous building designed by the Spanish architect Gaudi. There was another of his buildings back in Leon and both are very beautiful and quite unique. Tomorrow we start climbing mountains. I think the next two days look pretty tough but we are hopeful that our legs have gotten stronger during the last ten days.