A rebel without a clue.

Woke up at 5:30am Coffee by 6am Podcast - Hormones Put dried washing away Bath Porridge Down to Albion Street/Boar Lane Caffé Nero Bus at 8. Lola at 9. Bus back from Boston Spa at 11 Walk through town And back just after 12. Lunch and lay down. Left Lola around 2 Reading a new book - Watling Street Homage to Catalonia  can wait. Come to Bar3 for a long half Adnam's Ghost Ship . *** Then Kenny arrived just as I was leaving. I'd spent two chapters on one half and was slowly leaving for another chapter in The Mews, but Kenny literally came through the door as I was leaving... Until his 'lot' arrived and he went to join them (and I was a little forgotten), he wanted to discuss the Camino as he is interested in it... Went to The Mews after two pints of Guinness (half of one I couldn't stomach as I not really a fan of the Black Velvet) and had another pint and half of Theakston's XB, a beer I really like, left and got a lightly battered special from The Frying Pan. Re...

Spent the majority of the day walking. Walking to catch the bus, walking to return the nalgene flask and collect Lola, walking up to the Allotment and over the back bone of Wetherby (Barleyfields Road) to Touchwoods to get Lola a biscuit, then a break. Then walking to the medical centre to drop off mum's urine sample and buy some items marked down from Sainsbury's. Walked passed BAE, where I saw Andy Stoney(I had seen Tony Dudley in the morning sat on the bench above Deighton Road drinking his cans), but went and bought some kale from Johnson's Greengrocers and then sat and finished Of Mice and Men on a bench facing the Town Hall and then returned it to The Library. Then I collected Lola and gave her a good half an   hour and saw the X98 going up to Deighton so collected my bag as Lola devoured her dinner. It's 3pm and heading back to Leeds passing Scarcroft and thinking of getting off in Oakwood. Mum's decided to let me stay on Friday night ...  And next Thursday n...

The long return to Leeds, UK begins.. toilet at 3:30am. Clothes and boots on. Hot drink at 4am: cocoa as only instant coffee otherwise. Will set off at 4:10am. Broken night's sleep. Around 12 midnight two of the guests sharing the room had only just returned from whatever they had been doing all day long and a forth person put in an appearance around 11... The door entry system makes a God awful noise so switching off was really impossible while there was a lot of comings and goings. But I did sleep in places between 8pm and the alarm... My day is just beginning. For four chicas it's just ending. It was Shrove Tuesday. It's Ash Wednesday. The start of Lent. The moveable feast of Easter. Easily through security and passport control. The vast majority of bums on seats are those heading to Londres. I am not so lucky. I've another two legs, at least, until I head up Albion Street or Briggate to Merrion or North Street. It's ages since I visited London: two years ago whe...

Slight hangover this morning. Having first coffee at just after 7:30 as the world wakes up in Sevilla. Waited for a call yesterday from the Podiatry Service in Leeds around 3pm(2pm local time) but I have no missed calls so sent an email. The night guy last night is Brasilian ... They're everywhere. I've probably just sold him on a trip to Manchester as it's far cheaper than London, but he would like to see the Natural History Museum... That makes sense. I visited it with my big, but sadly deceased, sister Julia when I was either 10 or 11. I recall having a migraine on the final day - I think I was over stimulated. I owe for a beer and need to rent a towel to get clean as will be sensible this day. Need to be catching the bus at 4:30am tomorrow ... Sight seeing. Walking through the gorgeous Geography and History section of the University of Sevilla Facultad Geografía e Historia which was a tobacco factory? Royal in fact! So back to the hostel for a cleanse... I almost went t...

All fine. Packed up and stepped out to locate coffee. Down to the bridge? But, no, what's this? No coat! Well that's a first. And it's drizzling... Then it's raining. I had to laugh. That was a very good night's sleep in room 104. Took me 30 minutes to locate a coffee nearby the railway station. Another one opens nearer the river at 7:30, but this one is nearer the morning activities, but it's Buondi, not Delta ... The Brasilian from Recefe was very quietly, beautifully sleeping. And reminds me of Jorge Ben! Coffee flavoured sweet. I've been carrying a couple since Bushido, they're getting more gooey. Which reminds me of getting the sack from Linton Springs for helping myself to Tia Maria from the patisserie chefs stash without being invited: he was literally flirting with me a couple of days prior - the big whoopsy - and gave me a tipple and in my innocence I thought it was an open invitation, but it was an invitation to be accused of stealing bottles o...

Punjabi vegetable jalfrezi - no comment. Two chapatis for 5€! What... OK. 10€ for the meal, but the mental distortion for the flat breads. Leeds's finest from Abul Bakr £1? I don't know how The Algarve does it - supply and therefore damned? Certainly it filled a hole. Pilau rice slightly damp too ... And a small bottle of water 2€60¢. Don't go to Mehfil if you don't want to leave feeling Meh and not very happily filled! Time for a siesta and that's it? I made my bed prior to the late lunch. It's all good. It's in my belly. But the upper bunk squeaked every movement. The sour faced woman on reception said they have no lower bunks left so I accepted the upper bunk in 102, but everything was bouncing around loosely when I moved. Luckily the unhelpful woman had ended her shift and a more helpful man moved me to a lower bunk (which was a available in 104!!!) so I moved my stuff and took 102 key back. Now I have Samuel from Recife Brasil opposite: he was already h...

What now? Where now? One more day would take me further than my original destination - Beja - and further from Seville, where I return from on Wednesday. As there are a lot of connections from Faro, Tavira and the Algarve to Seville, by bus, that must be 'the' option... I've booked a Rede Expressos to Faro at 1020am. And will stay in Tavira. Indeed I could stay until Tuesday as I don't need to be in Seville except for one night. There is the Via de la Plata obviously, but that's in the future... This was just a short one. And I felt the Camino spirit the day before yesterday with António, in Alcoutim with the dogs and Sam and when I crossed the stream Vascão with my feet finding the none green stones and sandy spaces. So that's sorted. One night in Tavira too. Then forward to Seville and then back to Leeds, via Stansted, and my broken relationship with my mum... What's around the corner? Downstairs for breakfast and it's raining. It's grey on Beja. H...