Castrojeriz

sunrise over the plains

We were happy to leave the desolate and fly-ridden town of Hornillos del Camino today. We were lucky to be in a brand new albergue. Heard that a girl was robbed at the municipal one and lost all her money and her passport. We are VERY careful with our important stuff.

Walked through wide open land today, past a town called Hontanas that we didn't even see until we were about a kilometer away because it was built in a huge rift or canyon in the plain. It was the craziest thing. It wasn't a place I'd want to be during a flash flood.

We also passed the ruins of a convent that were beautiful. You had to walk right through it on the trail. 

We're in Castrojeriz tonight at a lovely place that has a terrace with big shade trees and great tapas. We ate some pulpo(octopus), patatas bravas(fried potato chunks with a remoulade style sauce), mejillones(mussels with the same sauce), mocilla(a sliced up rice and sausage thing-a specialty of Burgos), and rabas(unidentified deep fried French fry shaped somethings).

Tomorrow we head to Fromista and will hopefully successfully rendezvous with our friends from the UK.

Now for a little siesta before our 8pm dinner.

xx

coming to Castrojeriz

walking through the ruins of a convent

flies drinking moisture from our clothes in Hornillos