Burgos,Spain

Before we left our Albuquerque in Atapuerca for the 22km walk to Burgos I want to show you one of the gathering/reading spaces and the communal dining room.
The day started at 31 degrees! Brrrrrr! We had many layers on at the beginning ( rain gear to hold in the heat, I put on socks as mittens (it worked quite well!). The walking and immediate hill warned us up thank heavens. Arriving in Burgos, at the Cathedral in 70+degrees we were surrounded by so many Saturday families , tourists and 2 large groups for weddings that after noon. There is a photo of regionally dressed folk dancers dancing around the bride and groom. They twirled, the skirts swans out and back in with reverse turns, hands high in the air!
We were watching from a small balcony over looking the cathedral plaza. Amazing find by Miss Tammy ( applause here 👏). After we freshened up and headed for food we came upon a funeral. 2 weddings and a funeral!! Busy plaza and Cathedral!
Step back a bit to entering Burgos. There is a well known industrial walk/Camino route into the city that is ugly! Our proprietress in Atapuerca alerted all of us to a beautiful but not well marked river walk into the city and Tammy had taken it before. I am SO glad she had! To get to the start at a grassy futball/soccer field one walks through a dirt parking lot that is also edged by cars on the perimeter. Between 2 car we found the trail that led to the dirt path. There were many Ys in the path before arriving at the paved City path ( think Burke-Gilman Trail in Seattle or the paved bike route in Coeur d Alene). We were tired as it was late in the day for us. A sweet older man walking in the other direction saw us almost take a wrong turn cashed to us ( Spanish) indicated the way, insisted on accompanying us for a few km set k us on our way then turned to return to his daily (?) walk.
I will close with the image of us sitting on the plaza having wine, running into 2 other pilgrims who joined us. Chatting laughing in the sun. OFF our feet and looking forward to a good meal.
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