Friday, 27/05

Stayed on Tuesday night in an albergue (hostel) attached to a really nice hotel. We had an excellent pilgrims menu in the hotel dining room…. 3 courses, bottle of wine, bottle of water for 12 euros each. The dormitory slept 40, th biggest we had stayed in, but it was quiet and everyone was shattered, so by about 10pm everyone was asleep.

Left Wednesday morning straight up a hill and had a 12 km walk before second breakfast where we met Larry and Desi and an American couple (Mary and Joseph. We walked with them into Atapuerca where we had decided to stay on Wednesday night. Rolled into the village at about 12.30, so only about 5 and a half hours walking today. Checked in, showered and went off to find lunch. Lunch was long and full of great conversation and it was really good to spend time with these guys while sitting down rather than walking.

We were in a room for 6 in Atapuerca and Heather had a bed! Woken up at 5 by some extremely noisy Italians who decided they wanted to be away early!

We’ve booked 2 nights in a hotel in Burgos for Thursday & Friday, to give the legs a rest.

The walk into Burgos was hard with quite a lot of road walking, but got here about 2.30 after just over 20km. Met up with the international group we keep on meeting for tapas in the evening. Aussie couple, American couple, Canadian couple, and 2 Dutch and 1 Danish ladies.

We’ve spent this morning in the cathedral which is just incredibly beautiful. now time for siesta. Off at 7am tomorrow.