3 May 2008

We want to start this blog by wishing Chloe a very Happy Birthday as we may not find Internet access later on. Better early than late.

We are in Burgos again today, met some pilgrims we already know who said they had to walk 34 kms yesterday to finally find accomodation. They have also decided to take the day off today. We will all meet each other tomorrow somewhere along the Camino. Hopefully, the weather will not be too hot as we are told that on the Meseta, it gets very hot. I (Danielle) am not looking forward to hotter since I am finding it quite warm already. My feet seem better today.
The Meseta is an elevated plain, apparently very flat and featureless, a section of the Camino that a lot of people bypass. We will get back to this later on after seeing a bit more of the place.
We ended the blog rather abruptly as some camino friends came into the bar to chat with us, and messed up our concentration. We had drinks and tapas with them at an outdoor cafe and later wandered around the town which was quite crowded as it was a long weekend in Spain. Later we found a nice restaurant and the four of us (Jennifer and Bob from Australia) had a good dinner. They will be taking another bus tomorrow, as they are on a six month tour of the world, and have a limited time to walk the Camino, so they will be skipping the Maseta. Tomorrow we hit the road again this time destined for Hornillos del Camino about 21kms from Burgos. The funny thing about the Camino is that as one goes down the road, you meet different people and hang around with them for a few days, and then they are gone for one reason or another, and you meet new people that you hang around with. Then out of the blue you arrive in a town and see the people that you had met several days ago, and it is a happy reunion for all.