Life's a Stitch

This time it was a planned day of "rest," not weather induced. I put the word rest in quotes as we spent most of the day on our feet. We started with mass at the Cathedral de Santa Maria, a UNESCO world heritage site.

It was supposed to be a mass cantada (with singing), instead there was no music, it was held in a small side chapel, with only 14 people in attendance. I was hoping for the cathedral experience, but it wasn't meant to be. We spent three hours touring the magnificent complex.

Most cities have a dog catcher. Well Burgos has a municipal pigeon catcher. When he spies a group of pigeons milling about the plaza he sends out a huge net fired from a small canon, trapping the birdies underneath. You're loving this story, aren't you Lynn? She's my friend who has a loathing for pigeons since a bad experience in London as a little girl.

The catcher then fetches the birds by hand and stuffs them into cages in the back of his van. Who knows where they go, maybe they become meals for pilgrims. I'd better look up the word for pigeon in Spanish.

We had tapas for lunch. Each of these yummy morsels costs 2.10e. There's a mini veal burger with carmelized onion and arugula, salmon over mixed seafood and zucchini wrapped around cheese and peaches.

Burgos, part 2 tomorrow.