First walk in Leon. Built on a grid pattern with single storey buildings, it's hot,windy and in places colourful. It's always a bit phantasmagoric this first walk in a new place. There is sensory overload at work as you walk the streets, trying at the same time not to fall down some of the gaping holes under missing manhole covers. Never quite knowing which way the traffic is coming stepping off the pavement is always risky. It might be a bike or more likely the local vehicle of choice, an ancient Toyota Hilux, that comes barrelling down on the unwary.
Our guesthouse is along from the main square and cathedral, a white smooth stucco building which has, apparently, a very impressive interior. I have yet to visit. Now the sun is setting and night takes over. The sounds change and the darkness becomes palpable. Later it will be beer and something to eat. Tomorrow we go into action.
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