Day 17 - Burgos to Hornillos del Camino

Stage 1 - The Physical - is officially over today! 🙌 - the body is now 'prepped & conditioned' - apparently?! 🤔

And so Stage 2 begins - The Mental! 😬 ...Today we start the 'Meseta' (plateau) - considered to be the 'mind phase' - known for its solitude and little distraction. An opportunity to go deeper with your thoughts and to reflect inward in quiet contemplation - eeekkkk - brace yourselves! This is going to get messy! 🤣

It was a little hard to get started this morning, but off we trotted for our 20km day! Again, we detoured via the river as we left Burgos. We made the mistake of following another group and later realised it was the wrong way! So we lost about 1km cutting through the burbs to get back on track! 😂

We came across this cute little Monastery - just before the Meseta outside of Rabe de Las Calzadas - and popped inside only to be greeted by the cutest little nun who blessed us and put a little necklace with a Santa Maria pendant around our neck! 🙏

Tomorrow we're planning to stay at a monastery that doesn't take bookings and has no electricity 😳... so it should be interesting!

It would have been the perfect place to see the Milky Way at night, BUT we're expecting more than 20mm of rain tomorrow! 😟Read more