Ponferrada

Took less than a couple of hours to make it to this town. Definitely started too early as Laura did not get her cafe con leche and was not in the mood to deal with me.
We checked out the town and waited for Nancy, Laura's mom, to show up. They have a twelfth century castle in town and we visited it with her. It is Wednesday, another obscure holiday, and everything is closed-again. Well the castle visit today is free but all the good things in the castle worth seeing are off limits as well. Spain has an over abundance of holidays that no one seems to know or care about. I think they have more saints than any country in the world and it allows them unlimited holiday time and I should drink my cafe and not cry about it so much.