Agés

The dinner last night was great! Asun (Asunción) cooked up some pasta with clams and a chicken dish in a really nice sauce. As always, a bottle of wine comes with a “pilgrim’s dinner”. It was an ok local wine with no label.

We started walking without breakfast or coffee. Got coffee a mile later in Espinosa del Camino at a pleasant bar. Had our breakfast at Villafranca Montes de Oca. The “Montes de Oca” means “nettles mountains”. You walk up a pass for about 4 miles going out of town. The terrain changes from wheat fields to oak forest to pine forest as you go up. But no nettles. We spent most of the day walking in nice pine forrest before descending back through oak and into wheat again to arrive at Agés. Got cleaned up, and got a beer with bread and salami to tide us over until dinnner.

Today we decided that we didn’t want to haul our packs up the pass and took advantage of a service the postal service offers. They will come pick up your pack and deliver it to the albergue of your choice for 5 euros. It made a big difference, of course. I’ve been fending off shin splints and Dale some potential blisters.

Tomorrow we get to the big city of Burgos and will do a layover. Burgos is famous for their huge gothic cathedral, museums, and pervasive cool architecture. Hopefully it will also get us healed up for the rest of the walk. We’re less than a fifth of the way to Santiago de Compostela.Læs mere