Burgos

Today Bridge and I traveled from Bilbao, home of the Frank Gehry museum to Burgos which is about 80 miles South and on the Caminó about 1/3rd the way to Santiago. It’s a big city and more about that later but we had troubles figuring out how to get there. It a bit over an hour by car which we don’t have, so we checked out busses, trains, taxis and Uber. One-by-one there fell through. Taxi was like $300 (no), busses took like 3.5hrs and didn’t leave until afternoon, we went to the train station and found a train that left at 9:40am but was 9am when we asked and our hotel was 10 min each way and we hadn’t packed. Lesser of all was a brisk walk to the hotel and wobbly run with our roller bags on cobblestone streets back to the station which we made by about 7 minutes before it left. The ride was nice along rivers and valleys then we made a 25 minute stop in which the conductor told us we could get off. We took a short walk out of the station to a coffeehouse nearby and I had a tea that I spilled all over my had and burned. We thought it was getting late so we rushed back to the station and found our train missing. Yikes!!! It was still 5 min before it should have left and we got that pit-In-your stomach panic as our bags were on the train. We saw another train on a different track and ran to that platform and was told it went to Burgos, but we went in and not the same car we had been in and no bags. Bridge went running to a different platform and I was desperately asking for info. It seems that they moved our car off ad were adding more cars, so a couple minutes later out car got hooked up with our bags in it. The adventure has not only started, but gave us a run for calm, being present and letting go run for our money. Long day but got really nice when we got here. Bikes were delivered and easy to assemble with just pedals to attach and handlebars to tighten. Bridge and I did laundry and went for a short 15min ride on the Camino to check out the bikes.. Weather is wonderful, about 75 degrees and went for a nice dinner tonight. Bridget shopped for a bit and I went around town taking pictures.

Burgos cathedral

Train car being added

Happy to be back on the train