{"id":3318,"date":"2022-07-12T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2022-07-21T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T16:21:27","slug":"leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3318","title":{"rendered":"Le\u00c3\u00b3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big day on the trail today as, Le\u00c3\u00b3n, the next big city is in our sights. Aranda\u00c3\u00b1o Joe is on the grind today but no Efe Bomba. When it comes to spending time walking or spending it shopping she has her limits.<\/p>\n

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We booked a great apartment on the Plaza Mayor, right in the middle of the old city. It is listed as a penthouse which, in practice, means 5th floor attic in a building with no elevtor converted to a living space. Things could be worse though. Spain could be in the middle of a heat wave, in which case, an attic sounds like possibly the worst place to be. Wait, what? Spain is in the middle of a heat wave?<\/p>\n

Alright, it’s not quite that bad. There is a small, portable air conditioner like you’d buy at a Home Depot and if you close all the doors and windows, turn off all the lights, and crank it up as high as it goes, the Little Air Conditioner That Could can keep one small, dark room of the apartment at a livable temperature.<\/p>\n

If we’re going to be uncomfortable anyway, it may as well be outside. The upside to leaving so early each day is that, even after hiking 15 miles, there is still plenty of time left to explore. Le\u00c3\u00b3n seems to have much more going for it than either Pamplona or Burgos. Even outside of the old city aside, there are plenty of interesting buildings, public parks, fountains, artworks, and, of course, ice cream shops.<\/p>\n

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After a lunch of much appreciated Indian food (I haven’t seen rice in weeks!) we head over to Casa Botines, one of just a handful of Gaudi-designed buildings outside of Catalonia. It isn’t much compared to what Nick will see when he gets to Barcelona, but it is still an impressive introduction and, as an added bonus, is air conditioned.<\/p>\n

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From there we head over to the cathedral, another great place to duck out from 100 degree heat. Like Burgos, this is another giant Gothic-style building somehow funded and constructed at a time the city had only 5,000 inhabitants (about the same size Dawson Creek was when we got a McDonalds).<\/p>\n

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We have made a game-time decision to do the next section to Sarria on bikes so that we can have a rest day here in Le\u00c3\u00b3n and still make it to Santiago de Compostela in time for our flight to Italy. In retrospect, that would have been a much better decision in Burgos as the terrain from there to here was quite flat. Instead, because we’re stupid, we’ve waited until we’re headed back into the mountains.<\/p>\n

For now, it’s huddle time back in the safe room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big day on the trail today as, Le\u00c3\u00b3n, the next big city is in our sights. Aranda\u00c3\u00b1o Joe is on the grind today but no Efe Bomba. When it comes to spending time walking or spending it shopping she has her limits. We booked a great apartment on the Plaza Mayor, right in the middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}