Making lemonade in Leon

[DoughnutANZ]

I am in one on my happy places for two days, Leon, and so I thought that I had better make some more lemonade while I rest my knee.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Look, I know what you are going to say but honestly, I only ordered three items. I guess that either the shop proprietor instantly recognised me as a potential serial customer that needs to be lured in or else she was closing soon and wanted to move some excess stock.

This lot cost me €3 in Leon just now.

The item at the top right corner was the nicest and that is a piece of Mandarin on chocolate then custard. Middle top, which I definitely didn't order was probably a close second place, chocolate over pastry with a custard centre. The item with three occurrences is/was a layered pastry with custard in some layers with icing on top.

That was dinner sorted!

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Today I need to walk off the extra pastries and so visited the Gaudi experience in Leon. I really enjoyed it. I had thought of Gaudi as just being a flamboyant architect but I am really impressed with his combination of great design and aesthetics. A bit like how I admire the design of the Concord aeroplane. With the front down and a high pitch as it came in to land it always looked like a giant bird of prey to me.

For me, the best designs are not only functional but also aesthetically pleasing and now I have a much better understanding of Gaudi in that space.

 

[Kirkie]

Today I need to walk off the extra pastries and so visited the Gaudi experience in Leon. I really enjoyed it. I had thought of Gaudi as just being a flamboyant architect but I am really impressed with his combination of great design and aesthetics. A bit like how I admire the design of the Concord aeroplane. With the front down and a high pitch as it came in to land it always looked like a giant bird of prey to me.

For me, the best designs are not only functional but also aesthetically pleasing and now I have a much better understanding of Gaudi in that space.

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Architecture, street furniture, material design - the university outside the walls for the untaught...some like Gaudi knew that.
So spouts one with a little knowledge.
A very dangerous thing on a platform like this.
You and I have met,
I reply to you, knowing you will understand.
A happy meeting, although brief. I hope the enforced rest is going to enable you to reach your goal before returning to the other side of the world.

 

[El Cascayal]

but honestly, I only ordered three items

Yeah, right. We know you!
Please post the exact location that I may never ever wander in there !
Hope you are recuperating well!

 

[Tickbush]

I also spent a couple if days in Leon, waiting for a knee to get better. I hobbled through the cathedral and then Casa Botines, where I discovered Gaudi. The next thing I knew, I was on a flight to Barcelona! I toured 4 or 5 Gaudi creations there, with minimal walking, thanks to the hop on/hop off buses. It helped take the sting out of having to end my Camino for this year. The knee eventually got well enough that I was able to walk from Finisterre to Muxia, so the lemonade ended up being tasty!

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

Ok, now I need to visit a Gaudi creation or two. I followed the initial design/ testing etc

cs. A bit like how I admire the design of the Concord aeroplane. With the front down and a high pitch as it came in to land it always looked like a giant bird of prey to me.

of Concord as a child via magazine’s, and whilst living in London years later often used to go out to Heathrow to stand at the end of the runway when it took off (initially at my girlfriends insistence). An incredible piece of Art/ engineering.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Yeah, right. We know you!
Please post the exact location that I may never ever wander in there !
Hope you are recuperating well!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/JYYKMYJrvgD267Vm6

The young woman in there keeps giving me stuff!

Today I went in for a coffee and bought three items and so she added another, "gift" she said smiling.

Then when I get my coffee, which only cost €0.60 it comes with yet another small pastry !



Her generosity and the generosity of other Spanish people lately got me thinking today. I went into a small Supermercardo to buy some items for the walk tomorrow and I was browsing the ice-creams. I noticed that one brand name ice-cream was €2 each while a packet of four unbranded ones was also €2 so I bought the packet of four.

Later as I sat in the shade outside the Cathedral waiting for it to open I had one ice-cream myself and offered one to an elderly gent sitting on the same seat. Initially he was a bit suspicious but when he noticed that they were sealed in their original wrapping he accepted one. Later a younger man came along to collect the elderly gent and I offered him one too but he was much too suspicious of me and refused vigorously and so I had to eat his ice-cream myself .

Edit: BTW the burnt cream lemon tart, bottom left on the plate of four, was superb!

 

[VNwalking]

May your knee be happy!
As happy as the tongue has been. They're probably in cahoots, those two.
Buen onward camino, @DoughnutANZ !

 

[Paul McAmino]

Chocolate museum in Astorga. Gaudi structure by the cathedral=more rest.