Burgos to Hornillos del Camino (but we are staying in Isar)

So today we entered the Meseta.  We have now realized that all the descriptions of dust and heat we are likely to miss because of the time of year that we are walking – it’s green as far as the eye can see!  Field after field of wheat and oats and more and more and more.  To be sure that we arrive clean and bug free in Santiago we shared the Camino with a tractor full of fumigant today!!

We stopped at a church to get our stamps  – see photo of Lori in front of church. For those that don’t know, we are required to collect stamps in our pilgrim passport in order to qualify for the Compostela once we reach Santiago – for those that join the Camino for the first time at Sarria (which is the final 100 km)  two stamps a day are required.

We then walked on, stopping only for drinks and “fruit and nut break” (me seated on rock) and made it to our destination in about 4 hours – 22km = a breeze.  Lori was coming down the hill a little behind and shouted “ORDER ME A SHANDY”  -as she entered the town…and I did – This remarkably has become her drink of choice.

Our accomodation is out of town about 3km and for my Korculani friends I feel like I’m staying in Cara.  There has been a bit of a stuff up and basically we have “no room at the inn”.  So we are up the street in the “annexe”.  Enough of that, these are stories best shared over a drink back at home – shandy for Lori.  Dinner was shared with folk we have met along the way with a new addition of Paul from Montreal.  The final photos were taken at the magical time around 9.30pm when the breeze disappears completlely and twilight is about to set in – the shots are from and of the church above the town of Isar.