Day 19 - Saturday, 10th May, 2014 - 21.5 km
[Storks nesting on the church tower - Terradillose los Templarios]
A weather check for today had revealed that it was sunshine all the way. We set off from the hostel passing through the wonderfully named 'Terradillos de los Templarios". I had been warned by my cousin Matthew that this was a village to be avoided at all costs. I also remembered from last year that I ended up walking around the village twice following the yellow arrows and not realising where the circle route exit was. It was like a kind of "Blair Witch Project" type of incident where the protagonists found no escape from the spooky woods and ended up where they had started. Terradillos de los Templarios is just like that. Houses made of straw, no cats or dogs and just a stork on it's enormous nest on the abandoned church tower doing it's knocking noise with its beak. We continued over the hills to Sahagun, quite a big city for the Meseta. It was Saturday market day and the streets were throbbing with activity, which we found quite disturbing after the quiet of the countryside.
[Breakfast at Motatinos - Santiago cake]
[Hobbit type houses - Moratinos]
[Eila at the Virgen del Puente Bridge, Sahagun]
[Michael at the Virgen del Puente Church, Sahagun]
[Eila repacking her backpack - Sahagun]
[Jeff looking extremely overloaded - he says that the front bits balance the weight of his pack?]
[Arch - Sahagun]
[The brand new 10 day old Alburgue - Calzada de Coto]
After a very long lazy lunch there we made our way to Calzada de Coto a small village just beyond. I had stayed on my own in an unattended Alburgue with no staff and no other Caminoers last year. When we got to this same two dormitories pavilion we found it closed, but were greatly relieved when we had found that they had opened a brand new Alburgue 50 yards away that had only been open for 10 days. Most of the mattresses where still in their plastic covers. Our luck was in!
Buen Camino.
[Eila keeping track of her Camino notes]
[Jeff waiting one and a half hours to download his 64Gb camera chip to his iPad!]
[Alburgue life - Calzada de Coto.]
