Yesterday we had large flocks of pilgrims, today they were fairly thin on the ground. How odd.

Today’s ride was cold, flat, but with a good tail wind. Rain started just as we entered Leon, then thought better of it and stopped.

It was so cold today they wrapped the trees up in quilts:

An albergue (hostel) sporting a nice mural.

Really nice mural down a small side street.

More overcast today, soil changed from lime stone to more clay like.

Very quiet roads (1 pilgrim here, rugged up against the cold)

Karen doing 30kph about to overtake me.

We saw cows! The first ones. Karen was very excited and rode back to take a pic.

Bikes getting rather dusty now.

View from our digs in Leon.

Approaching Leon Catherderal from side street, another gothic-style cathedral.

It’s very big! Nice flying buttresses (not shown here). Spot the Kiwi!

This is a view of the middle door of the three you can see above. There is a lot going on here. Top scene appears to be a standard big cheese being served upon by a couple of angels and others kneeling in obedience. But my eye caught the lower scene of the two above the door. There was so much detail in these marvellous carvings.

Zoomed in view of the LH side. This side looks rather nice, a bit of praying going on, bird on a harp banging out some tunes and a bit of dancing to the right. A few angels milling about serving drinks I think. Altogether, a bit heavenly I suppose.

Zoomed in view of RH side. No so good over here, it’s a completely different kettle of fish. Looks like demons boiling up people (presumably non repentant sinners, maybe some heathens in the mix) and passing them along to the 3 large demonic diners further to the right. No cutlery here; it’s finger food for these boys.

From the cloisters, showing the flying buttresses.

A reminder that we are pilgrims.