We made it to Mansilla de las Mulas!

Another beautiful day, and we needed the shorter day (11.7 miles) to recover from the last two long days. The walk today was pretty boring as it was on a path along side a country road practically the whole way. There are trees alongside the path that provided shade. The problem with walking along side a road are the cars that come zipping by.  They seem to be going so fast when you're on foot walking.  Several taxi's drove by today and I was very tempted to flag one down, but I didn't.

There was no wind today so the bugs and flies from the farms were out in full force.  There are flies everywhere and for some reason the Spanish don't use fly swaters! I tried to take a nap in the room this afternoon with about four flies that kept buzzing around, landing on me a crawling around.  I couldn't sleep until I got under the blanket and covered myself up, head and all!

Many of the towns and villages we walk through and stay in seem deserted, especially between 3-6 when everyone is having their siesta.  Dinner most nights isn't served until 7:30, which more often than not is too late for us.  Today we bread, cheese, lunch meat and a tomatoe to make a sandwich a little earlier.