Today is our rest day, we spent it wandering around the large city of Burgos. Our overall impression is that it is clean, has many beautiful old buildings, has lots of bronze statues, has many restaurants, the restaurants being run by rather surly waitresses who do not seem to enjoy their job.

The bronze art work is scattered about the city, on the main drag and tucked away up side streets. Very high quality work on each one. Here are some examples.

The Tired Pilgrim in the Cathedral Plaza. He looked a tad more than tired to us!

El Cid; Jeff and a local lass; a smithy; Francisco de Vitoria, a Spanish philosopher:

A chap reading a paper (a tribute to the press); Los Gigantillos (and Jeff); roasting chestnuts; child dancer and his teacher:

LH Pic below shows an evolution of man. RH pic is one of many statues depicting tough warriors using the heads of their enemies as foot rests.

Old Moorish city walls:

Example of a wall mural:

The gothic cathedral Burgos is known for, and the Arco de Santa Maria:

We became Pilgrims! This is one of our official Pilgrim passports. We need to get these stamped every day in order to get (pay for) an official certificate at Santiago de Compostela on completion of our bicycle pilgrimage. No, we are not cheating. A walking pilgrim needs to complete at least 100km in order to qualify and we cyclists need to do 200km. We will be doing 540km.

We celebrated our new status with a beer and nibbles. My beer turned out to be a Scottish brew! Very good it was. Karen’s was more local, from Madrid. The first craft beer we have seen in Spain – it cost more than most of our meals, but was worth it.

Then more wandering. Most locals are rugged up against the ‘cold’ weather – most of the time we are finding it to be warm enough. The following pic contains the same number of trees at that in yesterday’s post from Ona (- this is a hint to those still working out that puzzle).

A panoramic from the Castle:

Looking towards the west from the Castle, the direction of our pedalling tomorrow. Rest over, back to some graft tomorrow.

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