Sat 24 Sep A quiet night in Fromista with the worst meal so far and they are chilling the red wine again! England played darts against Germany, Denmark and Australia after dinner and even tho it was 3 against 2 England won. M and K left at 0500 as they planned to walk further than the standard, by the book, leg today. Otherwise, a COP start with breakfast at about 0830. A very large cup of coffee and a large cup of hot chocolate for C plus 3 portions of tart all for 5 euros. It was a rest day today as we only walked 20 kms to Carrion de los Condes. As usual, it is dark when we start but we do not need lights as the moon and stars provide enough illumination. Many others do use torches and headlamps but this just stops your eyes from adjusting and we have managed to educate a few peringrinos about this but by no means all. Very frustrating when someone shines their light right in your face! For most of the walk to date the areas have seemed quite poor and the overriding colour has been brown. I have also seen lots of houses, mostly extremely old, that are made of mud bricks and I have seen the bricks still being made. The siesta is still firmly upheld through the parts of Spain we have seen so far and this is true of the larger towns as well, I think economic recovery will take some time. When we were were about 5 kms from todays destination we got a text from M to say that he had some bad blisters so he had stopped at CdlM so we met up again in the main plaza. Stopped at a Hostel instead of an AdP this time. Not sure of the actual definition between them, but for 15 euros each we have a 4 bedroom room, ensuite with real beds and sheets...... For a change today we had a picnic for lunch in the main plaza provided by C, but still not sure if she can really cook as it was just salad and cold meats. However, she does cut rolls, cucumber and tomatoes well. Not internet or wifi in the town so this will be posted when I next get a connection. Have seen some comments about people not being able to use the photo links. Not sure why as I did test them from where I was. You can try to copy and paste the links and otherwise I will see if I can change something. However, it will not be from this PC as the @ key does not work, I copied and pasted that one, and many other characters do not work. Ciao.