The albergue last night was unusual to say the least. Essentially, it was a barn attached to a cafe with a garden In between. The albergue was pretty much the only building in the village apart from a few agricultural sheds. I had the pelegrino meal in the evening, but really wasn't very hungry because I think I had a bit of a fever and i was feeling tired. This turned out to be of a shame because this particular pelegrino meal was a bit different, with a cho...

I had an interesting pelegrino meal the night before with a French couple that just decided to start walking the Camino from their front door in Potier in The middle of France. I am constantly amazed when I discover the number of people that walk from their home country, covering thousands of km, not just the hundreds that I'm attempting. Also the number of people that travel from far away including places like Australia, just to complete the Camino. The dormi...

A lovely short day today. The route continued along the canal and the beautiful gentle countryside. The song birds were out again, cookoos, wrens woodpeckers. I could hear frogs too and other delicious creatures. I started as usual without breakfast, because I like to walk first in the early hours as much as I can and have some coffee around 9 am. After about an hours walking a bumped into Gretta, a diminutive delightful lady from Bulgaria travelling on her own...

I was woken up early ie 5am by French people, so set off at about 6am. It was still dark when I ventured out but fortunately there were French people with a torch in front of me. I could tell it was going to be an extremely hot day even at this early hour and it was. The Maseta is really beautiful at the moment because the wheat hasn't ripened yet, it's a mixture of all hues of green dotted with the ubiquitous poppy, yellow flowers and blue cornflowers. Set agai...

After a good rest I did manage to visit Burgos Cathedral. It's hard to describe the sheer enormity of the building. It seems even bigger because of its close proximity to the smaller shops and hotels around it. With the pilgrims credential my entrance fee was only 3 euros, this included the audio guide, in English fortunately. As you would expect the building consisted of a main precept with several chapels branching from it. Each chapel was devoted to a particul...