Blogs from Pedrosa, Burgos, Castile & León, Spain, Europe

Where can you get an Australian adapter plug in Spain? In the Albergue in Atapuerca, 21kms back from Burgos, that’s where. Last night I left the hotel at A. at 9.45pm and casually unplugged my phone and iPad from the communal powerboard in the dorm. You know how sometimes you have those,” I must do that ...” moments but never follow through. Well I had one a few hours earlier and it went like,” I must tape those 2 sections of my adapter together to stop them coming apart”. I didn’t do it. Tomorrow I will search out the local ‘Chinese’ shops, ( the hotel receptionist’s description, not mine), and hopefully match it up. He pulled out a big bag of chargers left at the hotel and gave me a USB charger. The sticker on it ... read more

I never knew opening an envelope could be so liberating. During the night I came to a decision that my Camino was becoming a bit of a group venture. It started out as a private enterprise but I’ve let it slip. The village I was in was terrible and not worth a look around, and now I was booking a bag through, booking an albergue, and therefore making a commitment that I hadn’t been so keen on. I canceled the albergue at 5am, and after preparing 2 backpacks last night, one to send on, one to carry, I combined both and opened the forwarding envelope. It felt very empowering to take the €5 and put it back in my wallet. My group, who are all very nice people, left before breakfast, and I stayed on to ... read more

The long road continues. We have clocked in at least 1,000km Our walking continued across northern Spain from Logrono to Burgos, two major cities connected by series of country villages and agriculture, lots of fields!. After two blissful rest days, we hit the road on 30 June (Thurs) we walked 30km from Logrono to Najera but now with much cooler temperatures so very pleasant clear skies and sunny. Najera was a very pretty town and there was a festival on that night including a brass band hitting the pavements around the entire town (several times); fireworks and drinking until wee hours of the morning. 1 July (Fri) we walked from Najera to Saint Domingo de la Calzada (23km), which was another beautiful walk through countryside, mix of vineyards and wheat crops. We stayed in a ... read more