El Burgo Ranero to Mansilla de las Mulas
We had some breakfast in our hotel and left around 8:45 am. I posted a picture yesterday of a tree with rainbow colored fabric around the trunk. I didn’t talk about it, but a lot of the trees around this village have something like Afghan squares that circle the trunks. Each tree has different colors and patterns. I don’t know what the significance of it is, but it’s kind of cool and interesting.
We stopped for a break and ran into our friends from London. They had the same issue I mentioned yesterday. They had to take a taxi back to the previous town because there were no rooms available in El Burgo Ranero. Also, they are doing the Camino in sections. The section they are currently walking is Burgos to Leon. Tomorrow we will all be in Leon. For our London friends, they will be done with this section. In preparation for their flight back to London, they have to provide a negative Covid test result. So once they arrived at today’s destination, they were taking a taxi to Leon to take a PCR test. We will have to do something similar when we are finished with the Camino in order to return home.
The route today was similar to yesterday’s where a tree lined trail ran parallel to a paved road. We arrived at our destination, Mansilla de Las Mulas, around 12:50 pm. The gentleman who checked us in at our hotel told us a bit about what we would find about the town. It has long served as a perimeter defense for neighboring Leon. We saw some of the medieval walls that border the town as we explored the village before lunch. We found a little cafe that had a grassy area with tables placed under large umbrellas. We ordered a pilgrim meal and enjoyed a glass of wine. Before too long a number of our new friends joined us and it was fun to catch up. We also met a another new friend from Canada who has traveled the Camino multiple times via different routes. Using a map, he shared with us his experiences on the the Portuguese and El Norte routes and made some recommendations. Both Jim and I are interested in doing one of those routes so we appreciated the information. Tomorrow we head to Leon and then have a day of rest. Yea!
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AuthorsGreg and James live in Pleasanton in Northern California and are on a pilgrimage on the Camino De Santiago in Spain. Their adventures are captured in this blog. Archives
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