Camino Day 14: Rest day in Burgos

Total Distance: 0km
Step Count: 5.7k
Blisters to date: 2
Tortillas to date: 15

The rest day in Burgos was nice and vey relaxing. I had lots of downtime to journal and explore the city a bit more. Burgos is so beautiful, probably the most beautiful big city along the way.

Rest day also meant sleeping in (woohoo!) which felt so amazing and then spent the rest of the morning with Jorge until we had to go our separate ways.

I went to a cafe or grab some lunch and ended up meeting Jenny from Australia who would stay in town for a few days to recover from blisters and we chatted about the three phases of the Camino.

The route we’re following has three distinct regions that are meant to align with the stages of personal growth often experienced along the way: physical conditioning, emotional reflection, and spiritual awareness.

We had just finished the physical conditioning stage and were about to start the second one. Interestingly enough, I had just finished filling the first side of my pilgrim’s passport and it was time to turn the page and start a new one, a very bittersweet moment.

Later in the day I went to the square for the theatre only to find out there was nothing happening. This was a bit of a let down but still ended the day on a high sharing a lovely dinner with the European crew tasked with looking after me haha: my new camino family for now.Read more