Three Amigos

We are all in Burgos, however tomorrow the Three Amigos will become just two.  Early tomorrow morning Steve and I will set off on the Camino and walk to Hornillos del Camino, while Anita boards a bus to Madrid to connect with her flight home to Australia.

It will be a sad farewell and a different Camino without Anita.  We have had an amazing journey together, good times, hard times and moments to treasure.

This is our second day in Burgos, a lovely city with arguably the most magnificient cathederal in Spain.  We were not supposed ro arrive here for another two days however, unknown to us, yesterday was a public holiday in Spain, similar to our Labour Day in Australia, and apparently the festvities last for three days in this region.  This led to a shortage of accommodation in the small villages we were to pass through and every hotel or pension we contacted was booked out.  It was for this reason that the hard decision was made to break the journey and catch a bus to Burgos, thus forfeiting 50km of this section of the walk.

We have enjoyed our stay here with lovely streets to walk through,  spent a couple of hours in the cathederal, and our feet are well rested.  We tasted tapas for the first time and loved every mouthful, stuffed peppers, plates of mushrooms and artichokes, I'll definitely be on the lookout for a good tapas coobook when I get home. As lovely as it is, Burgos is a city, and we're really looking forward to getting back out into the Spanish countryside and back on the Camino.