Molinaseca to Villafranca

31km today.  A lot of road thru urban areas and then some viniards.  Tomorrow up the mountain.  Started walking at dawn, it's hard to sleep in an albergue.

Little bit of country before the city.

Here's the big town I had to go thru today.

So if you had a Mercedes would you park it under this balcony.  The picture doesn't show the roof well but the tiles didn't look too secure either.

Big bridge, little water.  You can tell how old a bridge is by its ratio to water.  Older the less water.

Breakfast of champions.  Chocolate with a couresant.

Nice square showing off the church.

Little more modern church.

So this is how you get a crane to stay off your church.  Build a platform that's taller right next to it.

You don't usually see color on the houses, this was nice.

So almost got lost here.  But it's easy to know when your off route.  Hit an intersection and if you don't see any yellow arrows, bring out google to get back on track.  Oh well little detour today, only has happened a few times.

So here are some houses being built.  What I find fascination is we put the roof tiles last.  Here they practically do them first.

I like walking thru viniards, although my feet were done early today.  The last few days I think have finally kicked in.

There was a "street vendor", should be called a vendor in the middle of no where, but anyway.  These were 1Euro.  I didn't have change only a five, they didn't have change so they said they'd give them to me.  I dug up 60cents and gave that to them.  Man these were good, got me thru a few more kilometers.

Strange.

Heading out of the last town.  Was tempted to call it quits but tomorrow is all uphill so didn't want to add anything extra.

Some kind of olive press. It's huge.

So right before this point I was dragging.  So three people passed me.  I decided I'd pretend I was a bike and draft off the last set that passed me.  Stay close as motivation.  Their pace was acceptable.  Worked well, then the other person that passed was Spanish from Barcelona so I started talking with her.  Barley made it but I got there with her assistance.  

Here is my town for the night.  I was so dead I checked into a Parador.  Not a castle but it's nice.  It has a giant bathtub so a good long soak and things are starting to function again.  I checked out the indoor pool but it was busy with kids.

Tomorrow is uphill all day.  Depending the route it can be the biggest climb to date.  I will likely take the easiest route, the middle route goes up a hill and is suppose to have great views but then you come back down before climbing again.  Downhills and my knee don't agree so I'll have to skip.  The other route is primitive and is advised that you are in excellent shape.  Nope, so I cheat.  There is still a view when you get to the top, 1300m.  Currently at about 550m.