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[QUOTE="Lhollo, post: 1034530, member: 93672"] We left Burgos late, around 9:45, after the problems with the bank. We did get the card back but only after the poor woman at the bank had shredded her arm, trying to liberate the card from the machine. We were seriously impressed by how professional, committed and kind the staff were. On the way out of the centre, I did something impulsive and arguably stupid, and bought the smallest size of El Cid’s chest I could find in a souvenir shop. I have a bit of an interest in history, and the El Cid period and figure has hooked me. So now I’m carrying a treasure chest along the way, as though I need the extra burden/joy. 😃 I think I recognised the place where, in “The Way”, Martin Sheen’s character and his friends say goodbye to the Romany man and his son, who stole the backpack. It’s a tree lined area leading out from a park through a large gate, which opens onto the older university buildings. I’ve attached a photo below. Am I right? On the subject of that park, and also in Hornillos, there are literally millions of white fluffy seeds—I don’t know from which tree or plant—blowing around like snow. They carpeted that park. We were glad to leave behind the city and get steadily back into the countryside, one underpass at a time. We walked through Tardàjos and stopped instead for lunch in Rabé de las Calzadas. It was a wonderful experience in particular because I had a long chat with a Spanish man who’s done a few caminos but always on either a very tight budget or without any money at all, when he was young and homeless. Now, he’s in his fifties and tries to juggle the need to make a living and earn some sort of stability, and his other need for the Camino, and to help pilgrims and sometimes gives them gifts. He’d walked to Rabé from Burgos just for the day, and we wished him well as he headed back. He’s a fast walker, reckoning on 30km in five hours. What a different world opens up after Rabé de Las Calzadas! Every tree, a skylark! Literally every tree! We also saw a male hen harrier—I don’t know how endangered they are in Spain but in the UK they’re very endangered, largely as a result of game shooting—and a Rock bunting, which is a new one for me. I am VERY glad of the monocular I’ve brought. The wild flowers really are something! Although the landscape is incredibly green now, the edges of the way are spangled with red, yellow, blue, white, purple, pink… I know some of the flowers but not nearly enough! As Hornillos del Camino came into view, we saw and then talked with a young couple from Germany, walking the Camino with a huge double pram/buggy that they push in front of them. They had two toddlers, probably twins, running ahead of them, until one fell and howled. We stayed at La Casa del Abuelo, in a private room, as we’re doing throughout. I used my new sleep system for the first time which came out of a reply to [URL='https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/extra-pillows-logic-problem.71536/#post-957120']the question I asked in this post[/URL]. It was really necessary, and worked brilliantly! I thought La Casa del Abuelo a lovely place. We ate outside with an interesting and diverse group of mostly younger hikers who are doing longer distances together but also adopting a ‘see what happens’ attitude. Two men fromFrance, one a sommelier, the other a fireman, a physio from The Philippines/Washington DC, and an osteopath from Germany. We sat around chatting with them until bedtime. It felt like a little haven, so nestled in the green hills. [/QUOTE]
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