I should give some credit here. I'm not able to post to the blog due to Apple issues, without the help of my daughter in Edmonton, who is currently on maternity leave. Thank you Elina. Today we experienced some Camino synchronicity family-wise. My mother-in-law's name was Naomi. Starting this morning we started noticing rocks and…

This is the dreaded Meseta day that everyone talks about. The first 17k has nothing in the way of food or services. There seemed to be a trail of gross toilet paper behind every occasional clump of trees. It wasn't the barren Meseta that we expected, but miles of farmland along a very straight and…

A day of superlatives, we woke up from the best night's sleep on the Camino and walked for a beautiful day mostly on an alternative path that took us through farm country then along a river with birdsong in one ear and church bells in the other. This is the Meseta that is described as…

About two thirds into our Meseta section for the day we stopped into an oasis of an alburgue in the afternoon to kill some pain. The last section was along the Canal de Castilla, 129 miles long, built in the 1800's for grain transport, but with the advent of rail lines, is now used for…

Last night at dinner in Castrojeriz we saw what at first we believed to be a bumble bee, but it turned out it was a tiny hummingbird with bee like colouring. It was too difficult to get a good photo. Then C was feeling creative: Started out this morning tripping over a nail sticking out…

We spent last night in a hostel in the village of Isar, a few kilometres off the trail, as Hornillos was totally booked. The hostel arranged for pick up and drop off to the Camino at no charge. I'm finding while walking I'm afflicted with musical ear worms. Waiting for our ride, a Scottsman shared…

We agree that if feels like we're getting stronger. Today's 21k (13 miles) felt like a normal day, the beautiful weather helping. Breakfast in Burgos was at Cafe Mayor where a slice of Spanish tortilla (similar to frittata, but flipped in the pan rather than baked), a piece of baguette and an espresso cost 2e.…

I mentioned we stayed in a boutique hostel. C was entertained by the bathroom's square toilet, complete with square hole, and the shower with six sprays. I know what we went through trying to find a replacement seat for a grey toilet, I can only imagine when it comes time to replace square toilet seats.…

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…

During a break in the storm yesterday we hiked over to the Atapuerca Museum where, in the high winds, I gave my best Homo Antecessor impression: The weather broke last night leaving us with a good example of post storm clouds. Today was a replay of windy hiking, heavily clouded over with thankfully only a…