Buen Camino and El Cid legends

 We left home on 29th September to begin our 7 week road trip to Spain. A smooth 2 night crossing from Portsmouth saw us arrive in Santander early am on 1st October. We are heading firstly for Madrid, but stopping a few nights en route. There was little traffic on the road, so an easy 2 hour drive to our first campsite stop - Fuentes Blancas close to Burgos, which is a world heritage site in the Parque Natural de Fuentes Blancas.

Soon after arrival we set off to walk to Burgos it takes about 50 mins from the campsite a very pleasant flat walk but was very hot,  so when we reached Burgos we flopped into the nearest bar for a blissful cold beer.

The Camino de Santiago runs through Burgos and we saw quite a few pilgrims on our walk.  How did we know they were pilgrims? They wear scallop shells as a badge of honour for visiting Santiago de Compestela. So the greeting to them is buen Camino!

We went in search of a tapas bar of which there are many, however as it was Sunday they were jam packed with locals not a seat to be had, so we settled to eating in a mediocre snack bar.

Next day it was even hotter, so deciding not to exert ourselves again, we caught the bus into Burgos. Unfortunately our bus passes weren’t accepted so we had to pay the 1.2 euros each way.

 We had a bit of Tapas bar crawl,  then visited the cathedral. Where lies the tomb of El Cid. Apparently it wasn’t true that his dead corpse was tied to his horse to strike fear into his enemies as depicted in the film starring Charlton Heston. Mr C was gutted when he discovered that and vowed he will never watch that film again!

Tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd, we are making our way to Riaza for an overnight stop before moving to Madrid for 5 nights.











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