This is a very small town on the road to Burgos. I was hoping to walk further than 8kms today but I couldn’t get accommodation anywhere within 15kms of where l was staying last night.
I’ve sliced up the route by walking 8kms to here. Another 5kms tomorrow will get me to a town where I can get a bus to a monastery where I will be staying tomorrow night. I found it on only one map of the four I have so I hope it’s not too far away.
Anyway today I arrived here at 10am. The hostel opened at 2pm. I’ve had four hours to amuse myself. Never underestimate the power of doing nothing. The Camino offers lots of time to think or not to think and to simply sit and wonder. It’s all part of the pathway to Heaven, the title of my next book.
My only excitement was visiting a refurbished chapel that is now a pilgrim information stop. It was a break from watching the same few men walk through the same few streets for the same four hours I sat on the same small bench in the shade. I watched the same small dog run around the same small area for as long as I sat on that same bench for those same four hours.
It wasn’t boring. It was time out and it was what I needed after a very frustrating day yesterday. So far I’ve had a salad and two glasses of wine. I haven’t spoken to anyone except a lovely young woman from the Canary Islands and an American couple from California who have family in Ontario. It’s all I’ve really needed.
I will have dinner tonight at the hostel because that’s all there is. Anyway it should be fun.
I’ll keep you posted.
PS This is the dog resting in the middle of one of the two main roads in town, one of which may be the pathway to Heaven.