Santo Domingo de la Calçada

This is my first stop. After almost 7 km. This is an important end of stage town, though not mine. I had expected there to be lots of bars around the cathedral. No, only one miserable looking one on the main street, but well before the central square. There is however the Parador Sto Domingo where a man was loading lots of luggage with the transporter's tags(?) into his van. This town has two(!) paradores. The other parador (on my photo) is the Parador de San Francisco in front of which I am sitting right now eating last night's bocadillo (sandwich) and drinking some of the water left in my pack.
Off again, 10:35h. Another 6.5km to go...Read more