Beyond 2000

In the last three days we did 42km to León, 57km to Astorga and 53km to Ponferrada. This took us beyond 2000km of cycling; thus far we have cycled 2098km on our holiday :) I am glad to say that we have just over 200km to go!

We camped in León and realised how much we had been missing camping. We caused a "Grande Catastrophe" for the lady that had to check us in. She can't speak a word of English and to her amusement South Africa was not on her drop-down list of countries to choose from. She did not know how to handle this and had to wait for her boss to come and give her permission to select Great Britain instead :) The campsite was really nice and did not have lots of guests - so we were able to get a good rest. The next night we stayed in a really nice auberge in Astorga, a beautifull town. The auberge had a backpacker feel to it, and we really enjoyed the stay. Tonight we are staying in a free auberge, where you just donate some money. Its really good and even plays english music :)

Today we had a nice big climb to La Cruz de Ferro and tomorrow we have an even bigger one waiting to O'Cebreiro... we can't wait to get the scary bits over! Every km is a km closer to Santiago!