Camino de Santiago. Day 25. Ponferrada - Villafranca del Bierzo

Trail from Ponferrada to Iglesia de Santiago passing through:
- Castillo Templario (0.7 km)
- Puente Cubelos (1.2 km)
- Parroquia de Compostilla (3.3 km)
- Iglesia San Esteban Columbrianos (4.7 km)
- Ermita de San Blas y San Roque (5.3 km)
- Iglesia Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (8.1 km)
- Parroquia de San Ildefonso (9.8 km)
- Capilla de la Soledad (10.5 km)
- Iglesia de Santa María (15.5 km)
- Fuente de Pieros (17.7 km)

Day 25 of our Camino de Santiago. Today we were walking from Ponferrada to Villafranca del Bierzo (24.58 km).
Weather today was just amazing! Sunny and warm (would not believe that yesterday we were so cold!) And such a beautiful scenery around! Mountain peaks, covered in snow (we don’t miss them)… For me it was so much easier to walk today and my mood was so good (I felt like I’m like a flower, that needs sun, otherwise it’s so sad!)
In albergues municipal or albergues for donations you can’t sleep for too long. At 7 am they will woke you up and at 8 you need to leave. So we left early. Had a breakfast in the bar in front of albergue and started walking. I would say, that always we are last who are walking (we are not in rush). On the way there is a beautiful castle of Templars. I wanted to visit it.. but it opens at 10. So we needed to wait for more than an hour.. So we decided to skip it unfortunately.
The way goes through quite a lot of nice villages. So you have a lot of opportunities to stop and have a cup of tea or coffee (that we actually did few times) and have some rest!
So after all it was a wonderful day!
And we are staying in quite nice albergue, called albergue de peregrinos Ave Fénix. We will have a dinner and breakfast here! The owner is very nice. He will make for us a vegetarian menu. When I asked for a hairdryer he replied, that he would give me.. but few days ago he gave it to another pilgrim from Barcelona.. that took it with her! That’s not nice of her!