Burgos 22km

Today´s walk was pretty easy. Got 9 hours sleep so I was pretty well rested and quite hyperactive. The way was pretty bad as most of it was at the side of roads and leaing into Burgos was no fun as it was alongside busy roads and through the town outskirts. I felt great but Nadia was getting tired so I was trying to talk rubbish (something I am great at) to take her mind off of it. I started telling her how much faith us pilgrims put in these little yellow arrows which could be painted by anyone and lead anywhere. I then said that maybe they have been painted by a gang of criminals to lure pilgrims to a deadend where they attack and rob them. I then had a great idea for a film called ´The Pilgrimage´ staring Steven Segal as the pilgrim, a man with a history of violence walks the Camino de Santiago to seek redemption for his sins. Along the way he is set upon by a gang of criminals and force once again to turn to his life of violence to rescue a fellow pilgrim from the clutches of these criminals, using nothing but a walking staff. I think it would be more popular than ´The way´.

So here I am in a lovely albergue, very new and clean and pretty big. The only downside is that the facilities are few and far between. A whole floor sharing a handful of showers and one male toilet and one female toilet. Still good though.

So I plan to get another early night tonight for a 13mile walk tomorrow to Hornillos. I still plan to walk the Meseta alone but I am yet to tell Nadia this is my plan. She will have no problem with it but still I find it hard. We have a few tasks to do today so not so much sitting and waiting for dinner. We need a post office, a bank, a pharmacy (for Nadia´s knee) and to find a chinese takeaway for tea as I am really craving it.

Geeling great. No problems, just the odd aching foot but a quick massage on one of my breaks soon sorts that out. Onwards and upwards.