Sunday, October 8, 2006

How Long Before Gastritis Symptoms Go Away

Step 24 - Fonfría - Sarria

No breakfast at the hostel, in fact became very Sencillito stage and the descent was not as hard as others. Breakfast at the inn Betularia of Biduedo and not stop until you get to Fuel, the only people offering a service Galician barrage of ghost towns that fell upon us. The truth is that we ate well, Franco's house for 9 €.





owner Frank House is one of those people the way that fills you have something you do not know what is, but you know you can learn from them. He looked relaxed person, without addressing their concerns that pilgrims and leaving a good impression. The most shocking thing he told us a long conversation we had with him was a tip given to us, told us that our time and will I plan life, fractions, and we never asustásemos failures, but we learned. "If you plan your time to do something in one part of the day, and you can do it in less time, do not put more things in that time, the better love it."



We arrived at the hostel at a time, with the force that gave us the wine. The loads of hostels that are in Sarria, we decided to go to Los Blasones, Tita's shelter, which is a lovely woman and served us very well. We got five (Esther, Joana, Sonsoles, Oscar and me) in a cozy room of three berths where we sleep. The bathrooms were very nice, very caring, washer and dryer, and a beautiful facility in a restored house. Everything would be so nice if it was not to get on the top of the bunk bed the ground lost under my bed, my eyes fell on the bottom bunk, which was the poor Sonsoles. Because she got away as fast and I managed to stay in balance on top to keep from falling on it, everything was a shock. Tita asked us after many apologies, and told us that we do not preocupásemos by the litter. We dined at the bar next door, a combination plate with a delicious local wine. The woman refused to bring home to Joan, "If you're going to mix with a wine I bring home corrientito, the house no. "

Saturday, October 7, 2006

Getting Screened For An Enlarged Heart

Step 23 - Ruitelán - Fonfría

Indeed, the clothes were clean and dry in the morning, Paco is a guy exceptional. The breakfast was plentiful and rich, for 3 € more. And the group joined us Oscar's brother Sonsoles, did the five stage together, very quiet facing the tough climb to the Cebreiro in the background is a rise hard, but it was pretty nice.



breakfast in La Faba and the penalty was that we had a very thick fog throughout the climb. Galicia after entering the fog was less and upon arrival in Cebreiro get to see the incredible scenery that is from there.




Cebreiro
The place is amazing, it feels that it is a magical place of fairies. All buildings are of stone, all places have something magical there. I saw the Holy Grail because I had church service, but got the seal, which is beautiful, a reception in style to enter Galicia.




Hospital
ate at the counter or by 8.5 € Tear regular menu, where the waitress did not stop banging on the table to each bottle I had. The penalty of this beautiful stage was the storm that caught us before arriving at the Alto de Poio, drenched us, but then the hostel Fonfría much deserved punishment because it is very nice. Costs 7 €, everything inside is lined with wood and even the beds are made of wood.




Dinner was at the restaurant El Acebo, a restaurant that was near the lodge where we ate sandwiches all. With that we recover the forces we lost in the storm that caught us in the last five kilometers before arriving at the shelter and spoke with a man who had gone to make a home Manjarín, the town was in ruins at the top of Iron Cross. People with these sites overflowing sympathy without asking anything in return, "there should be no borders in this world," he said.


the end of the night we played a game of dominoes Joana, Oscar and I, and was very entertaining. Oscar actually lost, and the comeback was fun, we almost lost bet he could make the bags for the other the next day ...

Friday, October 6, 2006

Home Remedy Wart On Lip

Step 22 - El Bierzo Villafranca - Ruitelán

Catalan girl I met the whole stage, in fact we reach the other two girls in Madrid prior to the first blast. So we formed a little group with a Mexican boy who later came forward and walked around together all day. I came very well find these girls, not only by the good company, but because they were not going as fast as the canary, so he could force me to make short hops and wait and Gonzalo Pascualín.


Sonsoles is the girl who lives in Santa Eugenia, is friends with Joanne, who is the other girl who lives in Madrid, although it is Basque. Esther is the Catalan girl, are three very nice and then we all very good friends.


The stage ran parallel to the road at first, and already beginning to notice that the end of El Bierzo was fairly close. The scenery was amazing, but the highway driving on a bridge so high that very important disfigured the landscape. Yet all the villages they passed were very nice, well until we got to Ruitelán where we finished the stage at lunchtime. The hostel was very nice, very traditional, but the bathrooms were completely renovated and was ideal. We were put in the attic which was very nice, with all berths placed and wooden furniture.



ate at The Blacksmith, the next town, a menu for 10 € at the restaurant El Paraiso. Mari Carmen, a Galician, joined us at dinner, which incidentally was very good and plentiful, and everyone enjoyed a very pleasant conversation with anecdotes.


Paco, the hospitable shelter of a man Ruitelán is super friendly and attentive, and his sympathy was in charge of keeping us clean and dry clothes. The penalty was that there was room for great dinner prepared for six euros, but we took some snacks in a bar, watching losing to Spain against Austria, they're blankets ...


Thursday, October 5, 2006

Hl-dl-st Dvdram Gh40f Driver

Stage 21 - Ponferrada - Villafranca de El Bierzo

From that day I decided to make short hops to give time and Gonzalo Pascualín to reach me and make the dream of Santiago enter all three together.

Ponferrada So I left with the intention of investing the rest of the day to visit Villafranca. The people that are past Ponferrada are nice, but are stocked full of people, very pretty but not culturally relevant to be able to see anything. Another roll is Cacabelos, which is very nice, but the rain I was surprised and did not let me visit the quiet town. Although I now regret, I stepped in a row and got in Villafranca in a moment.



Villafranca is very nice, is in a privileged site of El Bierzo and its landscapes are spectacular. The pity is that their churches are very stale, and not much else besides its beautiful streets. Another roll is the Collegiate, is very pretty, very high, its columns are amazing and its structure is very vertical. The truth is that it is the best of Villafranca, because although the castle is nice, is private and can not be visited.



At night I was at the shelter, municipal, very nice and modern. Into conversation with the hospitable, very pleasant, and two girls in Madrid (a Vallecas, Santa Eugenia, the world is a handkerchief), a Basque and a Catalan who had just started the road in Ponferrada and was a bit scared. It was a very pleasant and we all went to bed, closing the hostel.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Where Can I Buy Planters Cheese Curls?

Step 20 - He Acebo - Ponferrada

played tourist visit to Ponferrada and short stage. I did the entire stage with Emmanuel and Arianna, who are both very nice. Emmanuel is a French no more, he has lived long enough in Portugal and speaks fluent English, and live in French Basque country and in fact right on the border with Spain (Bayonne), and is a much more sociable and friendly the rest of French I know. Arianna is a very nice Italian girl, but deep down is like the other girls Italian I've met: pleasant and attractive. The truth is that spending the previous day with them and all the stage that day was great. I said goodbye to them in Ponferrada, after drinking a Coca Cola because they were not going to stay, wanted to go and I wanted to see the city.





beautiful City by the way, did not expect was well Ponferrada. It is a young city, the historical part is very pretty, and the new part where the town center is a set of shopping streets that have nothing way inferior to the central areas of large cities.


visited all the good tourist should not miss, the clock tower, which is very nice, the Town Hall Square, the Museum of El Bierzo, with a couple of interesting presentations on prehistory of El Bierzo, the museum of radio, with a stunning antique pieces, and the castle, which is now under construction.


Everywhere was off to 1.25 € for youth card or student, and there was no problem to take pictures without flash. The kindness and good manners of people of El Bierzo is made to see.

The Museum of El Bierzo is very interesting, I never knew this area was so important and had as much history as it is. In fact it was an independent province of León for two years in the nineteenth century, and indeed its features have little to do with the rest of León, it seems that the pilgrims would have us entrance to Galicia a bit less abrupt.


The radio museum is very elegant, a long time to see it well because there is much to hear, but still has very interesting pieces. It is very good idea to separate the part devoted to Luis del Olmo the rest of the museum.


The castle of the Templars is another scroll, worth a walk inside, but more will deserve it when it completes the work, really do not know if this castle was originally roofed, but either way looks good, is a joy to invest our money in cultural property and rehabilitate it, and basically the Templar castle is one that has undergone more changes in its history, if it is not going to be much problem.




After all this trip, I had dinner in the Bierzo Plaza hotel, where I met Paco, a man of about 70 who asked for a cigarette when we were dining in El Acebo the day before and that recognized my accent immediately Madrid. I also met him at the Museum of El Bierzo the same day, I found a nice person and get him in the restaurant with the intentions of mine ordered a dining table for two. I met a special person with plenty of character that already stands out: when you look in the eye. As he says, is a lucky person, lucky enough to have everything you wanted to have in this life with all the effort of having fought for everything he has and no one has given him nothing but luck with it all. He said I was agnostic, did not have the fortune or misfortune to have faith, because that is something you have or not, but you can not blame the one who does not not have it. Even agnostic was the way he had always wanted to, because a big flow of people from the same place for so many centuries, had left a lot of energy on the road after you used yourself, you took and were leaving later. He believed in people, in man, and reminded me of myself some years ago when he was not a little bit of faith that might have now.

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

How To Remove Bayliner Upholstery

Step 19 - Astorga - He Acebo

The buffet breakfast was, what I need to give the tenth to the hostel. Juice, fruit, tea, cereals, pastries, yoghurt, toast and I'm sure I left something. A good pit stop prior to arriving to El Bierzo.



My knees were already forgotten what it was to climb to high altitudes, even after so many days walking is not that cost me a bit too forced to his knees already they had forgotten how it escalated after the Castilian plain. A couple of jumps and I had already put in Foncebadón, and a couple more and he was on the Iron Cross.





coming
The landscape was amazing, how beautiful are the mountains separated from the rest of El Bierzo León. Well, the Iron Cross is very nice, but would be nice to clean up from time to time, because a stone is not much, but a pack of snuff is garbage. In short, it's a fun feeling to know that no pilgrim among the thousands who are taller than you at that time. A French guy who was accompanied by an Italian girl, I took a picture and went on to Manjarín.



The scenery was still amazing, nothing to do with Castile, Navarra and La Rioja returned to my memory. I went to greet the hospitable shelter of Manjarín, a pilgrim I spoke of him in a bar before starting to climb and I thought that someone who left Madrid to go to a shelter on top of a mountain would someone special, but I was wrong, or so it seemed, because Thomas was a person and empty soda, which offered me coffee and asked me a donation and then quickly leave. Just had a bad day ...



I made down to the village almost on par with the French guy and the Italian girl, and get to El Acebo I realized how things had changed, houses wooden backdrop for every street of the village, one pass. The French boy was delighted, saying that after a long time to learn German and northern European people, being with one English and one Italian, Latin, as he called us, was a pleasure. Besides being already in Galicia, as he called on El Bierzo, for he said that once you pass the Iron Cross and is entered in Galicia.




slept and ate with them at the hostel El Acebo, for 5 € and 10 € for each item. Very well indeed. And as anecdotal data of the day, I met a snack at the local pub with a former player Rayo Vallecano B, Rodri, who is now dedicated to commercial Cleaning products, which gave me the greetings Michel. The world is a small, full of snot and said Beneden, but at the end of the scarf.