Mansilla de las Mulas to Leon - Day 16

Good Friday.  Processions start at albergue.  Feels like start of long weekend, like 4th of July.  Feels like mid summer.  Carnival atmosphere in the plaza, in the streets.  Looking for something to eat.

I don't know how the bars do it, continue to serve food after so many people have passes through, where do they get it all?  Tour Iglesia.  Cathredral is closing down when I finally wander over, but I manage to get a map from a woman there (begrudgingly, but I really am lost.)

New hotel attached to albergue (above albergue.) Feels weird hanging out my underpants next to their restaurant, to where people are getting the biers ready for the procession.  Leave a walking stick behind.  Everyone's shoes the same color:dust.

One color, the color of dust, April 14/L Herlevi 2017

Procession runs late.  After midnight when they return to plaza.  Plaza set for re-paving project, prostest signs hanging from balconies.  Window cracked open (though not enough, it's sweltering inside.)  Can hear them return.  Hear the bands continue to play.  Hear the people continue to stay long past.

Before, April 14/L Herlevi, 2017

Evening Procession, Good Friday, Leon/L Herlevi 2017

Bar Casablanca (not as good as before), new route that avoids scary bridge. Batteries are weird in camera.  Random snacks set out.  Leon dead as we enter town, but explodes within a couple of hours.  People everywhere.

Machine dispensing Keurig pods, someone has left out a machine.  I try it.  Right before Bar Casablanca