Monday

So we wake up reluctantly and slightly stiff in a hastily chosen roadside field, grumble half conscious at each other for a min until someone pipes up-

"So what shall we do today then guys?"

"I dunno, how about a nice bike tride?"

And so the cycle begins again...

We completed 93km yestyerday so didn´t quite hit the 100mark, but after drinking a couple of glasses cerveja too many at lunch (i.e., a couple!) and cycling throuhg the heat of the afternoon, which was to be reckoned with, it was all a little too much.

We left the relatrive bustle of Carrion de los Condes after 8 with the intention of finding a charming riverside spot to freshen up and bed down, but whenwever we slowed or stopped were assaulted by swearms of greedy mossies- this wasa enough of an incventive to push our tired bodies an extra 15-20k before hastily whacking up the tent, as far away from water as we could.

We´re making up for it now though- we´ve spent the hottest part of today lunching, lyinng and cooling off by the Valderaduey, whose valey we´ll be following as far as Zamora.

We have left ye olde faithful N611 which has served us well as far as Osorno la Mayor, and have started the journey West.

This road, though, is just as big, quiet and well mauintained as the last though, with ionly a couple of cars passing an hour. It´s quite surreal really, especially with the villages we go through being all but deserted- like a zombie movie where everyonés disappeared.

But now we´re speeding across this plain getting some miles out of the way so that we can enjoy the mountyains a little when we get closer to Boom.

Don´t really want to arrive too exhausted!

As a leaving present the Info crew gave me a hilarious book called the meaning of Liff- which creates imaginary definitions for all the funny sounding place names; matching them up with those things that don´t have words for them.

and I was wondering if you can help me think of a definition for Castroponce?

Get your imaginations out, prize for the best one :) Love, and moere update to follow, sorry i´vwe been slack x x x