13 October Cool in the morning and warming significantly in the evening

Picture is from San Martin, more shots of which are on Flickr.

Hacking and Waddling. Both of us. Both have a cold with a persistent dry cough. Both are still penguins. KB did not take any Aleve today and that was a disaster. QB is getting closer to a plan. Just waiting for confirmation from her doctor on the amount of Cortisone she should take for her little flap medial meniscus with a possible small tear that is causing all the problem. MRI before she left confirmed the diagnosis and we suspect her first shot has long worn off from the constant strain.

Apparently the medical system in Spain is quite good and there are 24 hour Centro Santo places that one can visit – afternoons or evening best if you do not have an appointment. Hope to walk in to one tomorrow with the recommended dosage from her “Medico”.

When the taxis came this am to take QB to Fromista I wheeled out my bike. Another FLAT, pinch ado. Like many rural places the persons here have multiple jobs. When the taxi pulled up he said he runs the local bike repair service. Thirty minutes later with a tube patched and QB off in the taxi I was riding the Meseta again. Lovely ride until the last 2 kms when, once again a flat in the same tire.

Three days in a row. Same tire. Nothing causing it that any of the repair folks could find. I could find nothing but all the same a third flat. Something has to be wrong with the tire itself as new tubes and patches did not work. Two to four hours of riding and a flat, on excellent roads.

Tomorrow will take the bike to a larger bike shop and see if I can get a new tire or some other solution.

Fromista:

– Cereal region maybe from the Latin “frumentum” . Earlier a breadbasket of the Roman empire. Sure looks like Nebraska.

-Has the purest extant example of the three nave rounded apse Jaca style of Romanesque.

The church has been deconsecrated. It looks wonderful with its very clean lines and lack of retablos or frescos or puti or other adornment. Nice change.

Took a number of pictures of this fine example (one book called it the best example of Romanesque) and posted them on the Flickr site, same URL as always.

Dated 13 October for those who look later

One of the pics in this blog is from another church here, Iglesia San Pedro, 16th century gothic.

Note the stork nests on the belfry. We like the stork nests.