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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 stopped at the first albergue on the route and had a limoada but walked on luckily to the center of pretty Belorado and found the albergue that had given us the water. It was a family run albergue and the daughter who logged us in told us about the laundry service which we were all very excited about. We got our clothes cleaned and dried for €3 for ...
Burgos - slow start, fast finish.
... highway towards Madrid. After about an hour of gridlock, having advanced a mere several kilometers, we pull off the road and into a gas station, rest area. It was packed with people having the same idea. There we chatted with a lady originally from Morocco, now living in Bordeaux, who was also waiting for the highway crowds to clear. She shared some Morrocan pastries with us as we whiled away an hour or so. As the highway did not appear ...
Day 15 - Burgos to San Bol
... apart from other posh pilgrims in hotels...cheats!) I only walked five metres when two young kids passed and said "sssbuee caaamino". They obviously were coming back from a wedding as they were fully dressed. A few metres more, more teenagers swerving and staggering all over the place. They had certainly indulged in a bit of liquor. By the time I got to the Cathedral I struggled to walk forward with the groups of drunks walking in the opposite direction! It wasn't a dozen ...
A walk onto the Mesata
... afternoon and virtually everyone is on siesta, shops are shuttered closed and everything is quiet and still, even the dogs do not look up as you approach.
The only shop open at this time was a small shop that sold everything from croissants, ice cream and wine. The door to the Casa was locked and when I asked the store owner how to contact the Casa host/owner, he simply tossed me the key to the Casa, said something in Spanish to ...