It is Saturday and we made it halfway! We will stay in Sahagun until Monday morning.
This is the end of our fourth week of the trip and it feels great to be here. Sahagun was always a major goal not only because it is halfway but also we now have just two and a half weeks left on the Camino. We might make it!
Now we are going to take a week off in Leon and Astorga before starting out to the finish. No walking for a week. So… Leon is 40 miles away and we will take the train there on Monday and then on Thursday take a bus to Astorga. We cut out about 70 miles of the Camino but that was always our intent. It also means we leave the meseta, the flat land of Spain, when we leave Astorga. It is a pretty common strategy for people walking the Camino to pass part of this area since it is so flat and there is not much to see. We walked about 60 miles of the meseta and that’s enough.
It is Semana Santa week in Spain and that is a big deal. Tomorrow we will attend Mass on Palm Sunday and then watch the processions in the streets.
We are waiting for the 8:34AM train to Leon.