Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Villar de Mazarife to Astorga 30k (20k for me)

Well...
Last night myself and CJ got struck with food poisoning. We think this is due to some bad water from a basement bathroom in the hotel that CJ and Alex stayed in the other night as I had taken a couple of sips from her camel-pack thing. Anyway, it wasn´t therefore a great night as we had temperatures and I kept needing to throw up everrytime I was close to being asleep. We therefore missed tea and typically it was apparently one of the best meals yet. A boy from California named Michael cooked and he hadf been tutored by a top chef in Norway or something.
This morning I still felt very ill but we decided to get as much done as possible. Today was a 30k day and we passed through quite a few towns and villages. Before our lunch stop, I had had enough and literally couldn´t walk anymore. Thankfully one lady in the bar we stopped at spoke fluent spanish and phoned a taxi to take me the last 10k to Astorga. The taxi was expensive (€18) but it was worth it. I was also to get 3 hours sleep before everyone else turned up. Apparently the last section was hillier than was shown in the book and wasn´t fun!
I then had aq good shower and managed to wash my evening clothes which I had also been sick on (sorry for the details).
The albergue here is called St.Javier and is really nice from what little I have seen of it.

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