Today was a perfect day for walking, cool and sunny, with a nice breeze blowing over the Meseta. We started from Burgos just after first light. The first few kilometers where along the river, through a park, past the university, and through the outer suburbs of Burgos. We stopped for our first coffee after about 10km. We walked over a number of hills, steadily increasing our altitude until we were on the Meseta. We tried to break the walking up into 10km blocks.
A high altitude plain, lots of wheat and sunflower fields. The wheat had been harvested some time ago, and the straw bales were lying in the fields awaiting stacking on hay stacks. There were a lot of windmills generating power on the surrounding hills.
We are staying at an Albergue tonight, and have just had the communal meal and sat with a couple of nice Dutch ladies. A little drama at dinner, an older man with some sort of medical problems collapsed during dinner and a few of us helped him up to his bed.
One if the services offered here is that the Albergue did my washing, I was getting a little smelly.
One of the problems is that we don’t have wifi, and mobile phone coverage on the Meseta is poor. It could be like this for the next 4-6 days.
In a lot of these small villages the church bells are rung on the hour with the corresponding number of chimes for the hour on the hour and then 2 chimes on the half hour.
Russ and Jan's Camino 