after a nice long nights sleep, we have breakfast and head off on our way. the tented village has a nice atmosphere. the neighbouring tent contains a french couple who trained for 2 weeks before starting the camino on bicycles, yet are still recovering from the first day over the pyrenees on the route napoleon. they are travelling by road only since then. we are relieved we did not try that and have been able to travel as much as possible on the camino.

we stop in burgos. maurice spots a bakery and stocks up on cream buns. tourists admire the cathedral and while veronique talks to guilers on the phone, maurice strikes up conversation with gerard from savoie. he has already walked from there and is now taking an extra month off work to continue to santiago. we discuss the camino and pilgrimage with him. his thought for the day is that it is the pilgrims that make the camino and not vice versa.

the n120 rapidly approaches motorway standard and speed on the far side of burgos- fast route to portugal. scary to go along, but we persist until finally leaving it taking local roads to reach iglesias and rejoining the camino, we head for hontanas and castrojeriz. we arrive at the camp site at 15.00 and are told of impending siesta. when the tent is put up we walk the length of the town, visiting chuches and stumbling upon a medieval market complete with jesters.

later, in the camp site, vero is unimpressed by the price of tuna in the shop, but makes contact with a dutch couple who have seen us back in urrobi and will bump into again in santiago and in between. they have 6 weeks to travel from home to santiago. the blugaz cylinder runs out, so no teesane tonight!