Not dead yet ;)

I know its been a while, but there were no computers along the meseta. Only teeny tiny towns haha. Here is a quick recap of the week. I cant even remember the names of some of these towns since theres been so many ^^´

Me with Leena from finland and Joan from Canada

    

The cathedral in Burgos (day and night). Coincidentally we arrived on the start of the city´s festivals.

Not always a beautiful view of nature

Leaving Burgos at 6am. We couldnt find an open cafe and we were desperate to find food so that we could take our meds (I swear, we are going to come back addicted to ibuprofen haha). We asked a man coming down the street if there were any open bars in the area and he told us no. A minute later he called us back down the street, and proceeded to hand us a bag full of fresh donuts and muffins he was carrying!

(NOT A VERY GOOD PICTURE) There are stork nests EVERYWHERE

The meseta. Long long stretches of flat nothing. Fun.

Coming into Hornillos

Oats, Wheat, barley

A picture in front of the church and municipal albergue in Hornillos. We arrived after a very long and hot day on the meseta. The albergue was full. I came SO close to crying. We cooled off in the church and went into the local bar to have a drink, and there we found an ad for a beautiful Casa Rural that offered to come pick us up.

    

It was a restored mill that still used the water for power! The owner also owned a hot spring-bath and offered to drive us there so we could take a bath :)

    

There were ducks and chickens everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I caught a duckling with the owners help, he gave me some bread :) we also got to see them all cuddling up before bed.

  

Dinner at the casa rural with our new friends Deedee and Ken from california, and a couple from france who we will never see again because they cover twice the distance that we do per day. The picture on the right is the owner of the mill. He is in the movie The Way with Martin Sheen, turns out his daughter married Emilio Esteves´son. They met while he was doing the camino! They also had their wedding at the Casa Rural. We also got to see the wedding album :) The two dogs are Pekas and Chuspi, and they are adorable.

View of the windfarm on the meseta

    

The ruins of a fifteenth century monastery. We actally slept here one night!

 

Singing in the ruins with our new friend Trey from Nashville. On the right is a picture of me with our Canadian friends Jenna and Nick. We decided to leave at 5am because it´s been way too hot. We´ve been walking with them ever since :)

    

In Carrion cooling our feet of in the ICE cold river

 

More meseta :( So bored I decided to see how far I could walk blindfolded, 2km!

A tenth century bridge

 
The hills above Castrojeriz

Napping at our destination (Blanking on the name)

With the bread man who stopped us to talk, he sent us on our way with a bag of mom´s favorite cookies and his email address so we can send him a picture once we get to Santiago

 

A 2000yr old roman road, the longest and most preserved roman road in spain

    

Picnic lunch. On the right is a picture of our italian friend who is traveling with his 30yr old son. He made his rolling backpack all by himself.

Cooking with friends

A funky bar on the way to Leon

    

Mom sick in bed with a fever :( NO PANICKING! She talked to our Seattle camino friend who is a doctor and he thinks it was just food poisoning (and she is feeling much better today). On the right is me rubbing pain creme on her feet, even though I dont like feet.

 

Getting ready to head to Leon. The book suggests that you take a bus into Leon to avoid the industrial areas. Since mom still had a little fever, we did (SHHHHH! DONT TELL!). Picture in front of the Parador

Running out to meet our friends from Texas for dinner. Sorry its been a while and that this post isnt that detailed, I had a lot to catch up on.

SUSAN we loved Grañon! The week before we were there an American woman and her two daughters were the hospitaleros :) but we also loved Belorado, funny a kilometer out of the town I realized i had left my hiking boots in the albergue (I was hiking in my crocs that day) haha. The albergue we stayed in was called Cuatro Cantones, and it had a pool! I think your daughters would like it :)

Bye for now everyone!