I cant feel my fingers...
Trip Start
Jun 08, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 11, 2008
Burgos, Castile-León, Spain and Canary Islands
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Total time: 16:49
Trip dist: 38.62
Trip time: 2:18
AVG speed: 16.69
Max speed: 46.29
I'm finally settling into a riding rhythm here on day 5. Todays ride started out from Las Quintanillas on roads similar to those we have been on only a little wider and a lot busier. Lots of semi's and large trucks. Pretty uneventful other than the wind and a few hills. Fortunately you can actually see the tops of these hills so you know that they will end, unlike before. Just before Burgos, we met up with the Camino de Santiago which is a pilgrimage trail. This trail is actually an incredible network of trails that reach all over Europe and end at Santiago de Compostela which is near the northwest coast/corner of Spain. Most of it is on dirt. Our plan is to ride this trail backwards from Burgos up into France which is a little over 300 kilometres. We are running out of time so it looks like we will just make it across the Pyrenese mountains, and into France before we will have to catch a train up to Paris to meet up with my sisters friend. I liked Burgos. The city was clean. I'm not sure when, but the city center has been redone and very well thought out. Of course all the buildings remain in their original place and the streets were originally designed for people on foot or horseback, but, most of the open plazas now have underground parking and there are these small stainless bins all over the place that I later found out are for recycling. The cool thing is that all the bins actually have containers underground so all the recycling and trash retrieval is hidden below ground. The cathedral was amazing although we only had time to see the outside. We walked around the city quite a bit. I think I could get used to Spain.
