The quote of the day......

Your name isn't Mary Virtue is it? If that isn't a weird thing to happen in an albergue, I don't know what is. 

I have arrived in Astorga after 17km walking. I put on a few extra km this morning, in the fog, by crossing a road instead of turning left. Nice path, but the wrong way. 

So I reversed steps and handed down the correct road, where I saw this....

I took this photo at 50 paces. As I got closer, I could finally see the yellow arrows. 

I reached Hospital del Órbigo about 12:30 and fell hungrily on some tortilla and coffee. Breakfast had been so light that I was starving. 

So I decided on taking a bus to Astorga as I knew I was not up to another 16km. 

At the albergue a lovely young man named Alex introduced himself and said there was another woman from Victoria, nodding to the bed at the end of the room. So I went to chat and she's from Victoria, Australia and a Camino veteran (7 times). And after some chat, she asks me if I'm Mary Virtue. She had stayed in Grañón in 2005 on the night that was my first day as a Hospitalera and was totally jet lagged. Very small world. And she had stay at Rebekah's house last week as well. 

And this is where we are spending the night. There's about 10 of us so far, but no sign of Nick from UK yet.