kates first day was greeted with sun, a beautiful breakfast in the parador and a bus ride out of Leon to Villadangos so we didn’t have to walk through the most boring outskirts of any city in Europe. The next 12 km was a pleasant stroll to Hospital de Orbigo. Kate’s enthusiasm for the start of the journey was like going to school on the first day. Photo this and that. Picking wild Rosemary on the side of the track, and she even had her first Camino universe experience when I noticed she had lost one of her walking poles out of her backpack and then 3 minutes later a guy walked past and had it with him. How lucky!
The hotel we stayed in Hospital was looking right over the Siglo XII Roman bridge. It has 19 arches. This is us having lunch…..
This is looking through some trimmed trees at the church.
it was a lovely evening. Dinner with other pilgrims and then to bed early.
PW – 28k steps