Happy Birthday Kat and Ben 🙂 🙂 🙂

Hello, WiFi not available last couple days …catching up, but having a heck of a time with this post…keeps disappearing…now for the third time:-(

La Rioja is behind and we entered Castilla y Leon 95,000 sq km/9 separate provinces. We are in the province of Burgos known for its cheese and lamb. This also is the bread basket of Spain, the vineyards have changed to fields of wheat, rye, barley and oats. Just before Burgos we passed the village of Atapuerca declared a UNESCO site on account of the source as the earliest human remains ever discovered in Europe dating back over 900,000 years and providing an exceptional record of the way of life of the first human communities. Artifacts are on display in Burgos – we are staying here two nights giving my knee a rest.

At one of our stops we met two ladies of mid sixty riding their bikes (older bikes not many gears) from Holland to Santiago…they left home May 6. …husbands did not want to come…gave the girls two month to do this. Most of our Camino friends are going home from Burgos to come back another time to finish….some people have to work…lucky us.

Along the way

Waiting for the auberge to open – usually between 12:00 and 2:00 pm