Zenit Puerta de Burgos

We awoke at about 7.30am to the sound of trucks starting their engines, ready for the days business ahead. It's Sunday and still very dark. What ever happened to the Sunday sound of Church bells peeling in the distance? Ahhh happy days.
It has to be said; the French service stations are excellent and make traveling easy, so, after a welcome shower it's time ...

We took our second day trip on Saturday. It was about an hour and a half to Burgos. Saw all the major attractions there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgos#Bu ildings_and_Monuments). It was a lot of churches, pretty much...including one of the largest cathedrals in all of Spain. Regardless of what faith you follow, it's hard to not be in complete awe of the buildings. It's absolutely incredible how old the ...

... and I didn't get my breakfast that came with staying at the hotel so I was starving. Here's what happened: The hotel's restaurant (where I had to pay for my room) opened 1 1/2 hours after they said they would. Because I had to catch a bus they opened a couple minutes early for me, but that did nothing becaue their machine they needed to run credit cards didn't turn on until 9:00. My bus was at 9:15. I couldn't find an ATM ...

... concrete and bounce back up. (I don't think I'll ever forget that.) OUCH!! Luckily little kids are very sturdy little creatures so after about 20 minutes of cleaning up his knee, elbow, and head and trying to calm him down, I finally succeeded and he was laughing and playing again. That was the last time we took the bikes on our little daily outing. :)

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2:30-3:00 Lunch: This ...

... my mental improvement, and will now need to be more conscious and make some little efforts to get back on track. As many of my close friends now, i can be a very anxious person. THere are only certain times and circumstances when i can sit still for an extended period of time, not worrying or being jittery about moving onto the next thing. I constantly worry that i am missing something, that i need to go on, keep the ...

Left Burgos around noon today and Tim needed to buy some running shoes. I am very happy with my choice of footwear, as i know many people that have switched from hiking boots to running shoes on the advice of medical professionals, and after having their feet shreded from blisters.

Ventured into the public library so the germans could try and book tickets back home. There must be a class or a course of something going on, because in this room on the fourth floor there ...

... i had more time, or an open ended schedule, as the need for a schedule detracts from the whole ¨camino¨ experience. I understand that it is very hard to do for americans especially, but i highly recommend that if you are going on the camino, try your best to havfe a very loose and open ended schedule. You want to spend each day living positively, eating when you are hungry, resting when you are tired, stopping where you feel so inspired. Off to bed in my cubby...

... noen dager. Her heter det Castilla y Leon. Store deler av denne regionen som vi gaar gjennom ligger paa en hoyslette ca 800 m over havet. Landskapet er helt anderleses enn i La Riorja og Navarra som vi startet i. I dag ha vi vandret over 10km gjennom en furuskog i over 1000 meters hoyde. Her var ogsaa mye eik. Bortsett fra at jordsmonnet er jordfarget og rodt, er det noksaa ligt en del av fjellet hjemme. (mye torrere selvsagt) I ettermiddag fant vi en kafe som blir drevet ...

21 km. The weather to-day was simply awful. It rained almost all day and the wind was quite strong, chilling these two peregrinos who expected much hotter weather in Spain in June. The path was a mucky mess and my attempt to follow the alternate path made by other peregrinos through the field right by the camino just got our shoes absolutely soaked. It was hard to decide which path was better and we ...

... lit" books written in diary form (whose narrator is inevitably a single young thirty-something living in London with a boss and boyfriend who undervalue her but who triumphs in the end) when I get to Heathrow. I last wrote from about Sevilla, I think. The words "I think" can probably sum up everyone's recollection of our tour through Spain. Granada was our next stop, and the hotel was a little dark and dingy and almost as inconvenient to the "casco viejo ...