Villafranca

We are finally getting some hot weather. We had a long but flat walk today, but it did get hot. The heat does take something out of you. We did daudle along the route today. Tomorrow we won´t go so far and will start a bit earlier. We left Ponferrada while it was still very cool and walked along the Sid river until we got out of town and joined the Camino. The first half of the walk was through sort of suburbs but with increasing large vegetable gardens, vineyards and orchards. The mountains are all around us, but none today.

We are meeting people we have seen before and then a few new ones. We came upon Yentz, a german we have not seen in two weeks and had dinner with him last night.

Villafranca has three huge churches and a castle. We are staying in yet another, although smaller, church at the edge of town. Of course, the city is sort of vertical, meaning a walk into the city center, with its very nice plaza, is far downhill and then back up a steep incline. Not what many of the perigrinos are looking forward to.

Look up Villafranca on the internet to see the churches.