Spain is known for holidays, olive trees, heate waves, sunburn, gazpacho...
Forget it. Today it rained as if we were in the middle of Belgium, Holland or England. Really heavy rain, pouring down on us. Cats and dogs. A plouat in draci. Pijpestelen. You got the picture. Sam and Richard put on their special ´ponchos´,which made them look like clowns in military colours (we´ll post a picture later on). Jan put on is rain jacket, which has the special feature that it is not water proof. But we kept going, we had to. Whenever you meet a pilgrim (walking or cycling) you salute them with the famous expression, ´Buen Camino´, or the easier, ´Ola!´. When it is raining there is little less enthusiasm among pilgrims, though Sam and Richard did raise some big smiles with their nice ´bad weather´outfits.
The start of the day was rain-free but included 2 more flat tyres (for Jan and Richard: Sam seems to have the specific skill of avoiding any sharp stones, branches or broken glass) . We learned our lesson and bought 3 extra inner tubes for the days to come.
We are again sleeping in a dormitory for pilgrims. Last night we paid 3 Euros a person for our beds. In the one we are staying at now they don´t even ask for anything except a donation at the discretion of the guest. Try to open a hotel for pilgrims in these villages... a lost cause.
The scenery today? No surprises. Hills. Lots of them. Tomorrow evening we hope to reach Burgos. After that we have 200 kilometres of ´Meseta´, flat land, waiting for us. Will we be nice for a change. Our bodies will also welcome it. Main areas of concern are our backsides (Sam especially, probably has to do with him not cycling over any sharp stones, don´t ask us how or why), thighs (all of us, an effect of climbing mountains), and every other muscle in the body (even some we didnt´t realise we had).
We sleep at Belorado this evening. Again we made a bit more progress than hoped for. But tomorrow we will loose some of this momentum by sleeping in Burgos (in order to get there we have some 30 kilometres of climbing waiting for us, don´t tell our thighs).
Day 4: 65 kilometres, 5.5 hours of cycling (the hours of cycling actually refer to cycling, it does not take into consideration any/many breaks we take during the day)
Forget it. Today it rained as if we were in the middle of Belgium, Holland or England. Really heavy rain, pouring down on us. Cats and dogs. A plouat in draci. Pijpestelen. You got the picture. Sam and Richard put on their special ´ponchos´,which made them look like clowns in military colours (we´ll post a picture later on). Jan put on is rain jacket, which has the special feature that it is not water proof. But we kept going, we had to. Whenever you meet a pilgrim (walking or cycling) you salute them with the famous expression, ´Buen Camino´, or the easier, ´Ola!´. When it is raining there is little less enthusiasm among pilgrims, though Sam and Richard did raise some big smiles with their nice ´bad weather´outfits.
The start of the day was rain-free but included 2 more flat tyres (for Jan and Richard: Sam seems to have the specific skill of avoiding any sharp stones, branches or broken glass) . We learned our lesson and bought 3 extra inner tubes for the days to come.
We are again sleeping in a dormitory for pilgrims. Last night we paid 3 Euros a person for our beds. In the one we are staying at now they don´t even ask for anything except a donation at the discretion of the guest. Try to open a hotel for pilgrims in these villages... a lost cause.
The scenery today? No surprises. Hills. Lots of them. Tomorrow evening we hope to reach Burgos. After that we have 200 kilometres of ´Meseta´, flat land, waiting for us. Will we be nice for a change. Our bodies will also welcome it. Main areas of concern are our backsides (Sam especially, probably has to do with him not cycling over any sharp stones, don´t ask us how or why), thighs (all of us, an effect of climbing mountains), and every other muscle in the body (even some we didnt´t realise we had).
We sleep at Belorado this evening. Again we made a bit more progress than hoped for. But tomorrow we will loose some of this momentum by sleeping in Burgos (in order to get there we have some 30 kilometres of climbing waiting for us, don´t tell our thighs).
Day 4: 65 kilometres, 5.5 hours of cycling (the hours of cycling actually refer to cycling, it does not take into consideration any/many breaks we take during the day)
2 comments:
I discovered your blog because we receive news from Village St Jean on a regular basis.
I like very much cycling too. And I appreciate a lot your "humour" (in French) even if you cycled the whole day with the rain (cats and dogs!).
Thank you very much for this.
Best regards
Maurice (from Lyon, France)
Hi everybody!
It’s so great to see that everything is working very well! I hope you were lucky today and the rain didn’t meet you on the road ;) like yesterday. And I hope your thighs got enough force during last night for climbing on the 30 km of today :).
Tonight, it seems to be nice in Burgos. Have you arrived there, haven’t you? Only tomorrow at the noon it seems to be showers and thunderstorm, but you have to be far of them then.
A very good shape and great weather for the 3 great guys!
Buen Camino to everybody! And be happy ‘cause 200 km of "Meseta" are waiting for you ;)
Mihaela
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