After a lovely, farm-animal- and countryside- filled FEVE train ride from Arriondas, I arrived in Oviedo. It’d been a long day, of walking 14 km with a backpack, riding 2 buses, and riding a train, along with layover times. I stopped for some groceries at Corte Ingles (the only place I found still open in the evening when I arrived) because the next day was Good Friday, when all the stores would be closed. Then I headed to my AirBnB. I was only slightly detoured by a small Easter procession. I was half-planning to rest a bit and then go back out around midnight to see more processions (called Madrugá), but once I’d had a shower, I knew I needed some rest. My mind was really relaxed from my time in the mountains, but my body
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