should I go or should I stay?

Should I stay in Ponferrada or should I heed the call of the road and keep walking?

If you're wishing there were some pictures here, please visit my friend Fernando's blog, since he's better organized about photos than I. And I'm in some of them anyway.

Yesterday I passed the highest point of the walk, some 1500 m above sea level. There I left a symbolic stone at the bottom of the iron cross where pilgrims have been doing just that for ages. It was a wonderful climb: the fog burned off, there were dark clouds with light coming through, the terrain of the path was nicely varied to give my feet a break, and I can't talk about the view, you'll have to see it for yourself. Do visit the mundicamino site (link at left), stay on the Spanish page and click on Camino francés (the English site is not great). I'm somewhere in their stage 25.

My head and heart are full, and I have a week of experiences left. Will likely arrive in Santiago on June 1, hopefully for the party that some of the "compañeros de la paella de Carrion" are planning.

So, I think I'll go to the next village after all. Animo!