Rest and luxury in Leon- day 9

The cathedral in Leon is beyond belief with  unending richly colored stained glass.

It has a simple yet breathtaking grandeur- I thin you could study the details of the building your whole life and still keep finding new things.

 Carving on just one of the seats in the choir. Each figure with so much character.

I took the bus from mansilla de las mulas a 30 minute ride. It was strange to arrive so quickly in a new place - when walking you see the destination and all the small changes in landscape, building and road as you approach a new town. Traveling on the bus I felt thrown into the town without time to notice where I was going.

I booked a luxury room in Hospederia Pax- a hotel within a monastery with pilgr albergue next door. It is beautiful and fancy and lonely. I took an amazing bath then in fine pilgrim style threw my clothes in the tub to wash. Note marble walls, whirlpool jets and dirty clothes. 

Tonight I will go to vespers and evening prayer/ pilgrim blessing with the nuns in the convent.