{"id":3271,"date":"2022-07-04T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T17:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2022-07-16T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T18:02:56","slug":"rest-day-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"Rest Day Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve planned a well-deserved rest day here in Burgos, even though it further complicates our ability to make it to Santiago de Compostela in time. I blame it on my fellow pilgrims to anyone that will listen, but the truth of the matter is that I may not be Benjamin Button (I stress MAY not be). Of course, just because we&#8217;re not leaving the city that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m able to post up in the hotel. Still plenty to do.<\/p>\n<p>Efe Bomba is still down for the count so the boys and I start at the cathedral. Every town we pass through here has a big, old church but Burgos and Le\u00c3\u00b3n have by far the biggest and we could the tower of this one for miles walking in yesterday. It doesn&#8217;t compare to St. Peter&#8217;s or Sagrada Familia, but this is the first time the boys have seen anything like it and it is fun to watch them take in the scale and history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3504-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3504 copy\" title=\"IMG_3504 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3479-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3479 copy\" title=\"IMG_3479 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3482-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3482 copy\" title=\"IMG_3482 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nothing impresses them more however than this &#8211; a pizza vending machine we find wandering down a side street in the old town. Swipe your card and 3 minutes later, out slides a hot pizza. How can a simple cathedral compare with that?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3491-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3491 copy\" title=\"IMG_3491 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We spend the rest of the afternoon tackling the the finest Burgos has to offer, including the restaurant that serves only one dish &#8211; four mushrooms stacked on a slide of bread &#8211; and grabbing a photo with the giant sausage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3493-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3493 copy\" title=\"IMG_3493 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3492-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3492 copy\" title=\"IMG_3492 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After days of packing and repacking luggage, and then dropping a small fortune to ship it from town to town, we&#8217;ve also come to the conclusion that pilgrims don&#8217;t really need too many collared shirts or pairs of shoes. So, for $100, we use the post office to box it all up and ship it straight to our hotel in Santigao de Compostela. Having expderienced the USPS, it is a shockingly friendly and efficient process. This part anyway. I guess we&#8217;ll find out in three weeks if it actually works.<\/p>\n<p>We cap off our time here with, what else, burgers (because it&#8217;s Burgos, get it?).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.chadtown.casaroberts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_3501-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 3501 copy\" title=\"IMG_3501 copy.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back to the trail tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve planned a well-deserved rest day here in Burgos, even though it further complicates our ability to make it to Santiago de Compostela in time. 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