Foncebadon

A cool and very cloudy day. Very nice weather for a walk.

First, a little correction, Don Suero de Quinones defended the long
bridge between Puente de Orbigo and Hospital de Orbigo.

I walked the 21.4km to Rabanal Del Camino thoroughly enjoyed the
change from meseta to hills. Passed thru a couple of really pretty
villages, Murias de Rechivaldo and Santa Catalina de Somoza.

Arrived in Rabanal and felt like continuing so headed uphill to
Foncebadon. Once virtually abandoned, this village is now thriving,
quite different to what we saw last year.

The extra km today make it now reasonable to go to Ponferrada tomorrow.

Found a nice hotel/refugio in Foncebadon so took a private room. Only
problem was the space-age shower, it didn't come with instructions!
Managed to work it out eventually.

Cheers
John