The Mystery of the Octopus

Day 18  Rest Day in Leon

I was half way across Spain, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

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Zero Miles Today. Second of three rest days for the entire Camino. Rest days are Logroño, Leon, and Santiago. We are now at approximately the halfway point mile-wise in our great adventure. We are walking all the miles from here onward as our 4 day biking segment is completed.

Now on to the Mystery of the Octopus. A few nights ago we all shared a bottle of wine at dinner. Wine is normally included with dinner, but this particular evening we upgraded to a better bottle of Spanish wine. We all enjoyed the wine and thought it particularly good. Blaze had the last glass poured from the bottle. We had just payed for our meals and the wine when Scot noticed something strange in his empty wine glass. Not just some normal sediment, but something more mysterious; something familiar yet peculiar. 

We studied it from all angles. Had it once been alive? How had it gotten into the bottle? How could something that large not be strained out in the wine making process?

It certainly seemed to be an octopus. Or perhaps a squid. We thought that perhaps it began to slither up the side of the glass.

Could it be the second miracle of St Scot? A dead octopus emerges from a bottle of wine, returns to life, and slithers out of a wine glass?

You decide....study the photo below....

Although this was a rest day, it was also a day to explore León, A city that seems much larger than its population of 130,000. We walked 5-6 miles today walking the streets and alleys of the city. Since food is constantly on our minds, I will share a few photos from this morning as we visited a local Saturday market in the Plaza Mayor.