What is your favourite place to see or stay post-Burgos?

[Hal]

Hi all!
*smiles and waves*

I tentatively plan to walk the Le Puy route and then from SJPP to Burgos. I will be skipping a few sections in France in order to take some detours by train. Instead of finishing in Burgos, I could spend few days (2-3, 5 at most) to end my walk in some other town, on or off the Camino. Suggestions?

It's that or spending the time in Paris buying clothes to fit my newly toned frame, or eating and drinking my way through the town to fill it out again.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

Consider Santo Domingo de Silos with its monks chanting vespers every evening.

http://www.abadiadesilos.es/

 

[scruffy1]

Falcon has it absolutely correct, a beautiful, world renowned choir and amazing architecture. As to Paris and new clothes - true you have been forced to tighten your belt a notch or two, maybe even poke a new hole and you are in great physical shape and perhaps even muscular - however three weeks back home, a celebration or two, back to your favorite foods and a lifetime of not the most healthy diet choices will soon have you back at your pre-Camino patata physic. Any new clothes will very quickly be too small too tight too French for where-ever you live. Post-Camino entrances to large cities are often traumatic-go for something manageable!

 

[Hal]

Consider Santo Domingo de Silos with its monks chanting vespers every evening.

http://www.abadiadesilos.es/

That looks just the ticket. As a solo woman, is there any particular etiquette of attending the service of which to be aware, from memory, other than the usual modest and quiet respectfulness appropriate to religious (and all male) locations?

 

[Hal]

... however three weeks back home, a celebration or two, back to your favorite foods and a lifetime of not the most healthy diet choices will soon have you back at your pre-Camino patata physic. Any new clothes will very quickly be too small too tight too French for where-ever you live. Any new clothes will very quickly be too small too tight too French for where-ever you live. Post-Camino entrances to large cities are often traumatic-go for something manageable!

The culture shock of reentering a large city is not something I have considered, but it makes a lot of sense. Food (!) for thought.

Given the prevalence of bocadillo on the way who knows what I'll look like? My lack of success in eating good food in affordable cafes and restaurants in Paris (endless Croque Monsieur and limp salad at tourist trap bistros, mediocre Nutella crepes and Subway outlets...) I usually end up doing the idyllic, though carbolicious thing of picnicking on baguette, good pate and wine from a market, so I likely would be well on my way to filling out my clothes already!

 

[mspath]

Hal,

As a visitor to the service you use the main church door entrance. Service times are posted near the entrance and easily available from the local tourist bureau as well as all the accommodation sites. For men wishing to stay within the Monastery there is an albergue/hospederia; women must stay elsewhere in the village. There is a wide range of tourist accommodation available on line. January 2013 I stayed here.

Enjoy your visit,

Margaret Meredith

 

[Deleted member 3000]

For men wishing to stay within the Monastery there is an albergue/hospederia; women must stay elsewhere in the village.

They don't want tourists, so the minimum stay (for men only) is 3 days, with a maximum of 8 days. You may be of any religion, but it is three days of mostly silence. It is a retreat, not an albergue. The cost is 42E per day full board.

 

[Hal]

Thanks everyone. Looks like a memorable location!

Hal,

As a visitor to the service you use the main church door entrance. Service times are posted near the entrance and easily available from the local tourist bureau as well as all the accommodation sites. For men wishing to stay within the Monastery there is an albergue/hospederia; women must stay elsewhere in the village. There is a wide range of tourist accommodation available on line. January 2013 I stayed here.

Enjoy your visit,

Margaret Meredith

Were the meals good, or there a small general store or bar in the town? I tentatively plan to take fruit and cheese and nuts from Burgos...

 

[mspath]

The Casa de Guzman where I stayed had good, inexpensive meals; since it was winter it was very pleasant to eat by their open fireplace. Many other places in the village serve food. Do take a monastery tour; the cloisters are outstanding!!

 

[Deleted member 3000]

Excellent food and a reasonable price for a room. They are not showing the price for a single on the website, though. I recall it was about 35E.

http://www.hoteltrescoronasdesilos.com/es/situacion/index.asp

 

[lonestarmatt]

We walked the Camino from May 1 to June 8 and one of our most enjoyable stops was in Villavante. The Casa Rural, Molino Galochas, hosted by Mercedes and Maximo was extremely welcoming. They had an afternoon fire in their fireplace and offered beer/wine and snacks. They washed our laundry and we hung it out to dry. The evening meal was very good and the breakfast was sufficient. They offered fruit and bottled water as we departed. The bedrooms and bathrooms were clean and comfortable. Their house is an old mill that's been renovated and the stream runs beneath the structure - there are windows in the floor to watch the water go by. It's a very relaxing setting and the Camino is a couple of hundred yards away. All of this for 40-45 euros per person.