Addendum to Cornillos del Camino

I have managed to put up a few pics on the last post..reception is a bit precarious here, but I have to add a description of our dinner in this (as Richard calls it), half horse town! When Amr investigated earlier at the restaurant, he was told we should come early as it would be busy and crowded, and come at 6.30 (very early for here)…so we wandered up about then, and were seated fine, and a few others we had seen in Burgos also there…there was a long line of tables set up, and we anticipated a large group coming…

Anyway, all was good, but there were a few mysteries…the very normal set menu was totally usual for a pilgrim menu, but underneath it said, not sure what it referred to, senegales menu….the top man was black, and maybe Senegalese, but ?? And there was a large sign on a wall in some Asian looking script, Amr said maybe Korean, but I’m not convinced, or what it even referred to…anyway, we had a good meal - the usual wonderful salad with tuna, with all the salad ingredients, then chicken and chips (not as good as I’d anticipated because it was pieces of chicken, not a succulent roasted leg)…but then the fun started..

There was a sign saying that there was live music at 7.30…I hadn’t noticed it, but it started, first a man playing a sax and nice background sort of music, but after a while there suddenly started a very loud tenor singing opera and the whole room stopped talking and listened…it was really good, and they alternated, sometimes opera and sometimes light music - jazz, it’s a wonderful world, volare, besame mucho - and Puccini, Verdi, Handel…such a weird and fun time…we stayed on finishing our wine caught up in the vibe. We’re not entirely sure if the tenor was singing really, or joining Pavarotti in a recording…but it didn’t really matter, it was such fun.

Now back, showered and warm!! The heating had been turned on and all is good…washing drying on the heater and no longer shivering…I’ll try uploading this and then more pics to the walk…Read more