Bercianos del Real Camino

The name is almost bigger than the town! I took a couple pictures trying to capture how abruptly this little town just stops. It’s a street and then…it isn’t. It’s like a set for an old time Western. Just a tiny little agricultural town, with a small Mercado where many of us, locals and peregrinos alike, queued up waiting for it to re-open at 5:30 so we could stock up. Apparently tomorrow, which is Good Friday, will be like a Sunday with almost everything closed. I finally got some cheese to go with the dates I score the other day. Hah!

Larger scale, today I passed through the geographic center of my Camino! This was marked in two ways. There is a set of carved statues you pass between. Big photo op. And there is a half-Compostela you can obtain in Sahagún, which I did. If disaster strikes and you are unable to complete your Camino, this has you covered! Phew! Sahagún is also full of Camino art and funny pilgrim statues. See photos!

I don’t know what to think about being halfway through. Is it going quickly? Slowly? Depends when you ask me. Right now it feels kind of quick. Am I really almost done with the Meseta? How can that be? (Ok, I just checked and I have almost 100km of Meseta left to walk, so that’s good.)

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