Burgos

Atapuerco – Burgos 20km

I didn’t get to post this yesterday as I fell asleep after a hectic day. The group I had been walking with are all going their separate ways after today. Kieron and Lisanne are going home, myself and Dora are hiring bikes though Dora is staying an extra day in Burgos and Christian is staying another day but walking the entire route.

We got up early and left our lovely little albergue for the night, and met at a shop at 8am. Everyone just wanted to get this walk done. Another dutch girl called Martina joined us along with a german guy that I can’t recall his name and Kevin from Oregon. All great additions to our group for the day.

We didn’t get much sleep due to a wee round German woman keeping the whole town awake with her snoring. I had to hold my laughter in several times as Kieron kicked the partition hard several times to try and get her to stop. He then told us today that he actually grabbed his cushion and gave her a good slap and still didn’t stop her. We all had a good laugh about it.

This walk today started off through some wildland and then eventually an industrial outskirt of the city. Before we knew it we were in the middle of Burgos and checking in to our albergue.

We quickly got washed and headed into town for food, then visited the Burgos Cathedral.

After quite a long tour, we all met up again at a pizzeria for our last supper together along with Paula from Brazil who had been part of the original group. Paula played Irish music on the tin whistle to perfection.

The craic was ninety and the food was just what I needed. Martina had told me earlier that she loved whiskey. Music to my ears!

After dinner myself and Martina found a bar that had half decent whiskey. We opted for a Jamiesons, and laughed as the young bar girl just poured two doubles for us and charged the equivalent of one back home.

We had a nice wee chat about our lives and the Camino, before heading back to the others in the albergue.