vasárnap, november 05, 2017

November 4, 2017, Day 9


Day off in Leon
Marti realised yesterday that she lost a toenail, so she really took a day off. I was feeling OK, so I went to do some real sightseeing. 


First I went to the church San Isidoro, but they only had an English guided tour at 1pm. To use the time until then I just walked around and landed on the main square (Plaza Mayor) with the weekly market. It was so busy and smelled great. I really had to hold myself back, so I only bought 3 kinds of cheese and some olives (that turned out to be not so great at all).

Picture: tripadvisor. com

The tour in San Isidoro was really good - there is a small pantheon which Napóleon used as a stall, so he simply threw out the tombstones. But he did leave the fresco, they are actually called the "sixtines chapel of the romanesque times" - the colours have never been restored only preserved and are so flashy and vivid! In the middle of the frescoes Christ Pankrator is sitting - an expression I didn't hear for the last 10 years or so, and then also only in the Greek catholic church. 

photo: tamtampress.es 

Afterwards I went to the Museum of modern arts. There was an installation where the artist collected about 20 different types of earth from the region of Leon and laid it on the floor in squares. His idea was to show that nowadays we don't (and more often than not can't) see the earth under our feet - and do not realise the variety of earth types there are in just a small geographical region already. This was especially interesting for me, as walking past so many empty fields the only change was the colour of the earth - there were no plants, no flowers no nothing, just earth.
After sightseeing I had a late lunch and a siesta for the first time here - it was so great to sleep in a bed with real bedsheets (did I already mention, that they had real bedsheets and blankets here?) 
In the evening we went to the mass in the cathedral, had our credentials stamped and went "home", did some more reading and eating and just went to bed early. 
Being a hostel, there were not only pilgrims here, but also people living their "real life", some of them came back from partying at 6:30 in the morning - just a bit before we had to get up...


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Hello Judit! You write you walk through lands which only consist of soil - so actually the perfect landscape to have your mind travel and sort your thoughts - so how is your brain? Sorting already started or still in the arrival / only day survival modus?
Good to read about all the impressions you perceive, but there is only little to sense about what you feel (apart from shoe ache ;) )
Besitos PePe