A rebel without a clue.

Why do mosquitoes bite on bone? Are they getting a fix of marrowbone too? White and red blood cells. Delicate eaters - apparently they eat nectar the rest of the time which makes them sound like Roman Emperors, decadent fucks. Short day today at just under 20 kilometres. Cloudy all the way. Not too warm. Think I've finally passed out of the Forested region. This is Cap de Gascogne. Saint Sever. Been out for fruit and veg. Will return later for Fromage and lentiles. Had fine food last night. Very nice sausages. Exactly like at home. Lots of fat came out of them, the Dutch ladies sopped it up with potatoes. Fat is useful on The Way. In the square with a Paulaner: sorry state of French beer. Was not allowed to serve myself in the fruitiers. OK. It's a service. Part of the cost. Blank faced lady. Has seen us all a million times before.  French beer is continuing bad: Guinness Special Export ... Warming my body. Time to get cooking I feel. Three Dutch ladies. Now one from Eindhove...

Monday The birds are singing and A rain falls against the windowpane Coffee made 5:50am. Monday morning. Final coffee, reheated... With 4 slices toast, butter and HM blackcurrant jam. Listened a bit more to Archive on Four/Barry Humphries. Written a bit on CdS forums. Getting ready for allotment? If the rain has whisked away? Allotment from 8:30 until 11:30 Went to Aldi for mum - eggs and bread. Staples... Having a half in Bar3. Adnam's Ghost Ship. The sun was shining and birds were collecting twigs etc for bedding. Ate lunch and took Lola for a long afternoon up to Ashdale Lane. Had a little chill on the sofa with her. Pint of Guinness at 16:30 waiting for the bus back to Leeds. Can't come to Wetherby until Thursday... Gonna be a challenge. Not on Tuesday, but definitely Wednesday when the weather is meant to be turd? Came back to Leeds on the 5pm. Got back to the flat at 6pm. Made open sandwiches of the remainder of the cheese and a mountain of onions Tired.  Ran a bath and w...

Awake at 5:30 Coffee at 6 Podcast: chocolate until 7 Washed up the pots and pans. Had toast for breakfast Up to the allotment 8:30 until 11 Paid Andy the £1 I owed him for potatoes when he brought water to the butt. Caught the, now, very busy X99: Saturday. This journey used to make me ill when I was a teenager following the crowd for no idea why. And I responded by climbing off at Oakwood Clock. It's the end of the market. So I got a few items. Lincolnshire Poacher cheese. Had a few halves but was back at the flat around 3pm. Enjoying the music in Melbourne, but now I realise Sam had no idea what the music he was playing was - it was an algorithm... I was super excited that it was Deerhunter, shoe gaze, Spiritualized, etc. But it wasn't his music. It was an AI generated playlist. Oh well. 

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...