Author: Thom

This slightly blurry photo is our friend and fellow pilgrim Carlos from Brazil. I met him on my first day, where he was giving honey to everyone he met – because “Brazilian bees make the best honey!” This photo illustrates some important things about Burgos and the Camino. That look on his face is a pretty typical pilgrim expression: exhausted. […]

After a break for the Easter Octave, we’re back! Once we were ensconced in the enormous Burgos municipal albergue, we met up with some of our lost pilgrim friends. I say “lost”, but they are just as likely to say that we were the ones who were lost! This lovely statue of the saint was in a niche in the […]

After our urban deathmarch, this was our first view of the old medieval city center of Burgos. We are definitely dragging by this point, and I want nothing more than a shower, dinner, and a bottle of vino tinto. The wonder that is Burgos would not hit me at once, but grow on me through the next hours. Date: 12 […]

Another reason I immediately fell in love with Burgos: this place. Sadly, it wasn’t open, and considering my failed attempts to find it since, it may be closed for good. Still, who doesn’t love a sports bar named after Bilbo’s home town? Also – it is not a coincidence that a Hobbity photo should be published on this date, the […]

After a considerable time spent wandering through perhaps not the best parts of Burgos, we finally rejoined a marked Camino route near these buildings. We all immediately thought that perhaps they had been designed by a fan of LEGO blocks, as the colours and the construction seemed, shall we say, familiar. Date: 12 April 2013Place: Burgos (Province of Burgos, Castilla […]