I've decided to stop eating sugar for a while. Just interested in the effects and also, i'm not sure that a block of chocolate a day can be all that good for you. This may be difficult due to the fact that there is a chocolate factory in Astorga which is coming up. Not all that much happened today so i'd like to bring up the subject of dreams. I have been dreaming ALL the time and i'm not sure whether it's because of the light sleeping or all the exercise...

Walked with my 'deutsche freund' Ben for 18kms to Leon. We came up with an idea for an opera. A couple of days ago in one of the albergues, he described to me very dramatically why Germans are the only smart people in the world to have doors that open outwards (after i explained to him that you would hit people in the face with those kinds of doors): Ben: (in german accent) 70 people in a burning building. (Singing)¨Fire fire, fire fire and we don't have ...

21st of April continued.... The next 19kms didn't turn out to be so bad and when i got to Mansilla de las mulas, My german friend was there as well as the french and funny drunk old germans from the night before. I was really happy to see them. It's friday night so the parcel i was going to send will have to stay in my pack a little bit longer. I bought some red nail polish to cover up my two bruised little toes and to my revolting feet look a little bit ...

This picture... haha, yeah right!! I read a quote somewhere, something like: 'On a long journey, even a piece of straw weighs a tonne'. Well this couldn't be truer. I threw the pink top in the bin today. It's the second top í've don this to. Now i have a singlet, a thermal underwear top, a hoodie, a fat warm vest and my rain coat and pants and short. Everything stinks so i might as well have less things that stink. I am also going to send more stuf...

So today I am officially over it and am actually considering cutting my hair off to avoid unwanted attention. Later in the day, Manuel assures me that this is what latino men are like and it is harmless and not to cut my hair off. He says that i am going to encounter this throughout the mediterranean. Excellent!!! I am feeling tired and cranky today and not in the mood for anyones crap. No polite smiles today. But then a man walks past and i say hello an...