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Fields of Gold
... li>Tomorrow we hit the road again and will soon reach the dreaded Meseta, a week or so of featureless prairie completely lacking in shade, useful cities or hills higher than our head. If I´m not mistaken it eventually leads us into Swift Current. See you there.
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Only 24kms today
We left the large 210 bed Albergue in Anto Domingo with many other pilgrims. It was a public holiday on Friday in Spain and a lot of Spanish people had decided to walk a section of the Camino making for a very full Albergue and lots of people on the track. There had been a ´foot man´looking at blisters and sore feet the night before so less people ...
Burgos - slow start, fast finish.
We had originally planned to go to Madrid for 3 days but hearing that we would be there for their National holiday complete with extra tourists, closed venues and parades, we decided to pick 2 days in Toledo then head north for a day in Burgos. We were also glad to be able to spend time in a couple of smaller cities. We had hardly left the outskirts of Toledo when we realized that today being their holiday, many Spaniards had taken ...
Day 14 - Rest day in Burgos
... said archaeologists did not have a sense of humour! The second floor was dedicated to Darwinism and the theory of natural evolution. It was also quite good, although it just got a bit too heavy and technical on the genetics half way through. Then surprisingly the third and fourth floors were like a modern art exhibition...very empty! There was hardly anything on display. On the fourth floor they just have a video display on the changing environment, and the ...
Day 20 -- 19.4 km -- Fish
Today was a slog through the suburbs of Burgos, a city we had visited a month earlier by car. If you are not a purist, it's worth considering taking a bus into Logrono, Burgos and Leon. Leaving, in each case, didn't seem as bad as the approach, and Pamplona seemed all right on both sides. On the other hand, if you are going to walk 750 km, what's another 50? The other possibility is to take the bus and keep ...