Today a short 5 mile hike brought us to the Madrid Hotel in Ponferrada. It started raining the last mile, and is expected to continue the next few days. We are equipped for rain but it's not a lot of fun to walk in. They really need it though so it's hard to feel bad about it.
Finding a restaurant meal in this area is still problematic. Unless you wait until 9 PM, dinner is hit or miss. This afternoon we walked around town and finally settled on buying bread, cheese and salami for lunch. Maybe the abbreviated hours for food establishments explains the scarcity of overweight Spaniards we see.
This evening we ventured out to a different Ponferrada: busy streets, lighted shops with actual customers, and overloaded tapas places, which we gave up on after a cervecia due to overloaded staff, paid the bill(5 €) and went to the Hotel Madrid restaurante, which is a lovely old room, but sadly patronized by only one customer when we came in around 9:15 PM, and only one additional couple when we left. We had the "menu" of three courses, 3 selections each, plus the usual included bottle of vino tinto, for 10 € each.
Tomorrow we plan to tour the castle here, then catch a bus to Villafranca del Bierzo to give blistered feet a chance to heal.
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