The photo shows the view as we walked in Castrjeriz today.....old monastery, ruined castle and a field of poppies. So good humour restored after a great day walking and back to big blue skies. The landscape was really big again with lots of limestone outcrops and the windflowers altered with the first wild lavender and lots of small alpine plants which I don't know. We met some interesting people in the walk today including a Dutch guy who began by singing us ...

Yes I know this is a day late but last night we stayed in Village of the Damned and there was no wifi. It was the most horrible place we have stayed and the only times I have felt ripped off and was very cross. Roger keeps singing Artic Monkeys Mardy Bum because he says I have a face like the barrel of a gun about to go off - can't think what he means. I'm nearly always sweetness and light. The day's walking had been fine although we are now in the area known a...

As this is a day off Roger is going to write some of the blog today. Raining in Burgos this morning so we went to the cathedral which takes about two hours to tour around. It's been restored completely and perhaps lost some of its historical feel as a result. Then to a modern art gallery and then tapas lunch. Both of us feeling restored and bought some lovely nail polish for my toes. I've kept them plain thinking I might need to see what's going on with my feet...

So this is blog entry 14 due to some administrative errors and wanting to avoid unlucky day 13. It's me in front of one of the many entrances to the amazing cathedral in Burgos. It was a long hard walk today with about half in countryside and small villages and then a tough 13 kms through the outskirts of the city. We were trying for the scenic route which meant a one hour walk around the fence of Burgos airport and then we missed the shady riverside walk to the ...

So today's pic shows we are still walking together. I had intended to take a photo of the heather which I have never seen grow to six feet tall, but the young Swiss guy came along and assumed we wanted a picture together - behind us is the very interesting heather. Our last 12 kn. today was through a forest which had beautiful plants . It was Spanish oak and juniper and the first bluebells I have seen with wild cistus garlic, ferns and other wonderful stuff. H...