León, Castile and León, Northern Spain

Our day starts with dropping off Mark and Jacky at Asturias airport before filling up with petrol and heading to Polo de Gordón.

It’s a jaw dropping drive over 1300 metres up and over the Cantabrian Mountains which serve as a border between Asturias and Castile and León.

We stop for a moment in Polo de Gordon but decide against staying and drive the extra thirty minutes into León.

Our home for tonight is a €5 motorhome carpark about twenty minutes walk from the cathedral. After a fight with the ticket machine that I lose, I eventually get sorted by downloading an app and paying online.

Lunch is beef butties, tasty leftovers from our posh meal.

After a bit of chilling time we shake ourselves into action and walk into León to visit the cathedral. It’s another huge towering gothic building bursting with medieval stained glass windows. Layer upon layer of them, 133 in total. Never seen anything quite like it! Beautiful sparkling glass, it’s also known as ‘The House of Light’. What is hard to comprehend is that most of it was installed between 1205 and 1301 and eighty percent is original to that period. Fragile glass, wow!

We take a walk around the old town and enjoy a drink in Plaza Mayor and Plaza San Martin both full of people socialising, eating and drinking. It’s got a lovely vibrant buzz about it and we are especially loving the free tapas delivered with our drinks.