Burgos to Castrojeritz- taxi

We’re skipping ahead a few legs. To Castrojeritz to begin our Cassie & Roxanne’s Camino portion. We’re booking ahead our stays 2-3 days. Tomorrow we’ll hike from Castrojeritz to Fromista about 15-16 miles.

This morning we had a croissant a la plantxa. It is a croissant cut in two, seared in butter then a marmalade, butter and honey mixture spread on and served seared sides together with a knife and fork. Heavenly!

Roxanne did some shopping to resupply lost items from the previous 12 days living out of the backpack from alberque to alberque. Great perfume shop in Burgos where you pick you fragrance and the put it into a little travel size spray bottle. Cassie says one squirt is enough. Haha! We also took in the Museo de la Evolucion Humana (MEH). We laughed at the abbreviation as it was far from “meh “. Very modern and thorough. Really enjoyed it.

We met our taxi at the hotel. We made it to an adorable boarding house and have a lovely room in Castrojeritz. Our hostess, Beatrix, is the self proclaimed Rose of the Camino. She is a rose and a spicy one at that. We had a lovely dinner with her and her husband, also the chef, and a fun chat with the google translator app. The meal was a chicken noodle soup with large stew vegetables, roast beef and bread. Very good.

There was a traveling artist offering wax stamps for our pilgrim passports. We each got a pretty stamp. The video shows him making his creations.

After dinner we decided to take a walk. We went to the top of the hill above Castrojeritz to see the castle ruins which were awesome. We stayed 5 minutes too long got caught in a hailstorm and downpour. Getting stung by hailstones we made it painfully back to town to city streets overflowing with water. We walked and waded in knee high water back to the boardinghouse which had standing water in its common rooms and kitchen. We made our way upstairs to our room and bathroom and got dried off and rung out. Cell phones and wallets soaked, and everything we were wearing is strung up to dry. What a adventure! The owners shop vacuumed the floors and all is well again.

I am so glad we weren’t out on the trail in a remote area when that hit!! Bad enough where we were, but our backpacks were safe and dry in the boardinghouse. I feel for the pilgrims that were. Hope everyone is safe now.Læs mere