[Trip Log] Day 4 Leon- Zamora

This was a 165Klm long long day. The journey started really well with a couple of hours on a completely flat road, until i was stupid enough to point out that this was the longest we have been on a flat road and guess what happened? we had to leave this road! the new one we went on was a road so small it didnt even have a name, and i would not even classify it as a road as it was a dirt road connecting 3 houses on one side with 2 houses on the other side via a corn field !!! i was really worried about my bike on this road but it managed well.

Finally came out of the "road" only to have the first heart attack of the day when we caught up with a sheperd and his dogs, which decided it was a good idea to chase me! finally arrived in Benavente for lunch. Nice little town, not much to see. Chained our bikes on a lamp post and went into a bar for some well deserved tapas ( Evangeline, sorry but forgot to take photos, i was so hungry! next time i promise). Suddenly i see a little boy looking at the bikes, and from one second to the other his hand was on the bikes! Pedro had to run out to stop him. Thankfully he didn't have time to take anything. That was heart attack number 2 for the day.

Anyway, second half of the road was really hilly, constantly going up and down small hills which was exhausting and the road surface was pretty bad. Let me just point out that there was grass growing between the cracks in the tarmac! finally arrived at Zamora at 9pm only to find that our 4 star hotel that we had booked was on a high way, had 2 wedding parties going on at the same time and lets just say it was NOT a 4 star hotel. We didnt really have another option, so had some dinner next to all the drunk guests and went to sleep. Not a very exciting day, but saw some lovely scenery of the country side. looking forward to tommorow, going to Salamanca.

Raniska