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Day 20 — Camino Francés: Burgos to Hornillos del Camino · WCBH

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  Day 20, first day of walking after a rest day, see how the body feels,
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  21 kilometers from Burgos to Hornilla.
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  We came across a marker fairly early on in our walk today and it was at 501
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  kilometers and we got a little bit excited and took a photo because we started at 790 kilometers,
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  in St. John.
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  And so we were just about to tick into the 400s. So that was pretty exciting.
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  And some people were walking past and I said, oh, we're about to go into the 400s.
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  And they were from France and they were very polite, but having a conversation
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  with them, they hadn't started in St.
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  John. They had started in the middle of France.
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  So they were up about a thousand kilometre mark and we were celebrating going
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  from a little over 290 kilometres.
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  Later on, we had lunch and once again, having a conversation with a lady about
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  where she had started and she had started in Belgium.
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  And last year she had walked from Belgium to Pamploma. And so this time she
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  had started in Pamploma and she was going to walk to Santiago.
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  Now, the two people from France, they would have been a bit younger than us.
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  The people from Belgium, they would have been older.
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  Just goes to show you, you know, these huge distances can be achieved bit by bit by bit each day.
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  Today we move out of the first section into the second section, the second third.
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  So this section is, I suppose, a test of the mind as the first section was a test of the body.
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  And in the second section, we walk through the meseta. and I'm still not fully
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  sure what is to be expected in the meseta but from what we understand,
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  the scenery doesn't change a whole lot.
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  Long paths through the wheat fields, the cereal fields, really a cereal bowl of Spain.
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  It can be really hot and dry on the meseta.
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  We're obviously walking at the beginning of spring.
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  Today was blue skies, sunny. still cool, but it was, it was, the sun was really nice.
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  You could see how it could get very hot and dry in the summer,
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  particularly if there's not a whole lot of rain around.
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  There's, there's, there's not a whole lot of shade in the Meseta.
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  For us today, it didn't really kick in until after lunch.
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  So we only had a couple of hours, but we'll see how the next eight days go,
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  because including today, it's a nine day stretch of about 20 kilometers each
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  day to get us through our, our next rest stop.
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  Which is Leon. One of the highlights today is that we went through a small little
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  village called Rabbe della Calzadas, and there's a little stone church there,
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  and a religious sister ran out and directed us inside the church,
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  and she was very excited to have us there and wanted to know where we were from,
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  and then she blessed us and presented us with a little medal to wear around
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  our necks for the journey as a protection and I suppose a sign of the religious
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  lengths of this Camino as well. But that was very, that was exciting.
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  We'd seen this church and this religious sister on some of the YouTube clips
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  and we know that she likes to bless all the pilgrims as they go past and even
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  known to leave the church and sort of get out there on the trail as well.
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  So that was a nice thing today.
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  But yeah, the 21 kilometers after a rest day, that was fine.
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  The only thing was the toes on my right foot after a rest day decided not to cooperate today at all.
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  They were just coming sort of back underneath each other and irritating each other.
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  But we are carrying something called hiker's wool, which I think is just merino
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  wool from the merino sheep.
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  And you use it to sort of pack in between your foot and the sock if you're getting
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  a hotspot or, you know, to prevent any irritations in the socks.
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  And I tried it today for the first time, sort of jammed it between the toes and it worked.
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  I put it in after about one or two kilometers and didn't have any issues for
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  the remainder of the day.
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  The end of the day was this beautiful descent.
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  You sort of been rolling through this never-ending path, eventually trying to
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  get to the end of it over the next ridge, over the next ridge,
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  over the next ridge, and then eventually you get to this descent.
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  And there's this green middle chair up the top. It's got the name of the town,
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  of the village that you're approaching,
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  and then it's quite a steep descent and probably about a 20,
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  25 minute walk then into the village. So we got here in good time.
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  Yeah, that's the first day of this nine day stretch as we head to Leon towards our next rest day.