Atapuerca to Burgos – 20kms

Today was a nice easy walk to Burgos. My feet aren’t hurting as bad as they were last year, and my knee is getting better. I even managed to walk down the stairs like a normal person.

There are two ways into Burgos. The main way is through an industrial area, and the other is a nice walk alongside the river.

Mike sussed out the route but when we got to the turn off for it, there was a big X telling us not to go that way.

We ignored it and went that way, wondering why nobody was following us.

We walked around the airport hoping to see some planes taking off or landing, but it was deserted.

After about an hour of walking we saw the Camino signs again and picked up the river path. I don’t understand why they don’t offer it as alternate route.

Some other people got lost and spent an extra hour walking.

We are staying in a hotel with a bath and it’s pure luxury. I washed my clothes as I sat in the bath.

We had dinner with some people who we met on the trail, but the food was average and overpriced. Two of the guys kept ordering bottles of red wine, which was fine. Wine is cheap in Spain, usually only 1 euro per glass in a bar.

Anyway, the bill came. We’d had 3 bottles of wine for the table and the price was 18 euro. That sounded about right, 6 euros a bottle. Nope. It was 18 euros per bottle! That’s pretty common price in NZ but not here. We felt we were taken advantage of.

We are here for two nights so we’ll explore on our own tonight, see if we can do any better with the food.

Other than that, Burgos has an amazing cathedral. Even I was impressed. There were some cool statues too.

Walking to Burgos, way over yonder.