We had to walk an extra 8km today 2km of which we already walked yesteday but it wasn't so bad. It just ment that our easy day turned into another 30+km day. But we arrived in Burgos with some interesting people and chatting to them helped pass the time. We are on the far outskirts of the city so we get a little headstart tomorrow.
Burgos is a lovely city with a river that runs through it and parkland all along the river. There were so many people out enjoying the nice weather and making the most of the pathway that runs for klms along the river bank. We made ourselves walk back to town and visit the cathedral, EL Cid is buried there and we will hit the history books just as soon as we have the energy to find outmore about that, or see if we can find the old Charlton Heston Movie....
The problem with this walk is having the energy to sightsee as well as complete the journey. We are doing our best to fit in what we can and fortunatley quite a few of the towns really are one horse towns with not much to see anyway so that is why we made the most of today and some days we aren't missing anything at all.
Tonight we are staying at a University. We have a room to ourselves and our own bathroom. Fantastic. We are not sure what is going to happen tomorrow. We were talking to someone tonight who told us that there are at least 20 people withoutb beds tonight. Accomodation is at a premium this time on the Camino.
We have another long one tomorrow 31km. We are trying to get away from the guidebooks recommendations as everyone else seems to following it. We are hoping that by doing the extra kms tomorrow we will get out of sync and the town we are going to seems to have more Alburgues so we might have more luck. Having said that we have come unstuck with this idea already so we will see what happens. Finding accomodation each day has become our main priority each day. After our toe taping ritual each day that is.
We are a third into our journey now having covered roughly about 250km.
Wow looks like you are seeing some wonderful sights. Can't believe the distances you are covering each day. Sorry to hear about the accommodation issues, last thing you want is to have to stress about it and speed through extra KM's. Hope you can find a gap in the pack.
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