Sunday 8 October 2017

Camino Day No. 17


Camino Day No. 17 - Sunday 

Terradillos de los Templarios to El Burgo Ranero

Today Kms: 31
Todate Kms: 433
To Go Kms: 431

Walkers: #JustMe

There's a hint of Autumn in the air on the Plain of Castile, which is some 3,000 feet above sea level.
And a hint too as the leaves start to turn golden:

 Saint Nicolas del Real Camino

The fields still stretch into the far distance:



There are amazing monastery gates:


Santa Benito in Sahagun

And yet more statues:




For those of you following the Stats, you'll have seen that Todate Kms: 433 now exceeds To Go Kms: 431.
As I walked into El Burgo Ranero this afternoon there was only the one song to play.


Written by Carole King & Gerry Goffin, it was a massive Hit in the Summer of 1961 for Billy Fury:

Halfway to Paradise 
So near; yet so far away



#BuenCamino, Pilgrim Piper

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