L2L Day 30 - Astorga to Villafranca del Bierzo

 It's interesting, because we are sort of riding from town to town and don't realize some of the spectacular sites in each of them until we continue on our way out the next day.  This was the case today as we left Astorga, there was an amazing Palace of Gaudi and also Cathedral of Santa Maria de Astorga.  

The first 20 miles today ascended several thousand feet, plateauing at around 5K.  Following the climb we enjoyed an amazing 10 mile coast into a beautiful town called Ponferrada.   Tonight, we are staying in one of the nicer and spendy hotels of our adventure.  After our 92 mile ride yesterday and heavy climb today and tomorrow, we feel like we deserve it :)

We've booked a hotel tomorrow in Sarria.  The ride should be another tough one (46 miles and 5500 ft climb), but expect some dazzling pictures from it in tomorrow's post.

Cheers!  ~Cam and Alex

We were a bit hungry when we ordered - hahahah :)

Credit for the below picture goes to a very nice lady we sat next to at dinner only to run into her on the patio at our hotel!  Her name is Pat from the Los Angeles area.  I regret not getting a picture of her to add into our blog.  After she completes walking the Camino, I think she intended on going to Marocco.