No internet and no 3G!

It was the worse day of my life!!

How did people cope in the bad ol' days?

Penny's new orthotics:

Top vs bottom the old ones. Hopefully this will make a difference. 

Saturday

The first days walk was pretty good, Penny's leg was sore but coping and the relatively flat terrain was a help. We left Burgos nice and early and trudged through the city/suburbs (which is not fun). 

A giraffe photo for Andrew. 

Stopped at Tardajos and had a nice brekky and hot chololate. Then a picnic lunch on the Meseta: fowl soup, bread (Spanish & French bread sticks are really nice) and of course chocolate. 

Beautiful daughter, beautiful scenery. 

We stopped at Hornillos at the very inadequate albergue.

Some hair hanging from the springs of the bunk bed. You can't see the blood on the sheets or ear wax on the pillow slips. 

Nothing in town was open so we bought some soup, eggs, and bread from the hosts. An interesting dinner to be sure. 

The lady was upset because we refused to pay 1€ for 25mls of olive oil. However sort of scrambled eggs following two courses of soup plus bread was ok. 

We also boiled two eggs to have hard boiled egg each for breakfast. 

Sunday

Once again a relatively flat day for walking. We left the albergue with a boiled egg in our tummy and a small amount of bread. 

Wind turbines in the distance, such a pity that Spain doesn't have the more attractive open cut coal mines that we have!

Leaving Hornillos we set our sights for 10km away —Hontanas where we would buy a more substantial breakfast. 

Guess what was closed in Hontanas? Everything :)

As usual not a dunny in sight, given the 200,000+ people who walk the Camino surely some Aussie drop dunnies would be a good idea?

Continuing along the road we passed the old pilgrim hospital at San Anton.

Mediaeval era convent and albergue. 

 Finally arriving at the really well appointed donativo albergue. Lovely hot showers, slow but functional Internet. 

A weary pilgrim.