{"id":1119,"date":"2026-05-04T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:48:04","slug":"may-1-and-may-2-two-more-sick-days-in-burgos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/05\/04\/may-1-and-may-2-two-more-sick-days-in-burgos\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1 and May 2: Two more sick days in Burgos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(This post written on May 4, several days later.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep, that illness was not going away!! I didn’t feel up to moving on on the camino and we had to be out of our great apartment. It was May 1 which is Labor Day in Spain. Terrible timing! It was a 3-day holiday weekend in a popular Spanish tourist destination city. Hotels were either booked up or very expensive. But we did find a comfortable place to stay for 361 euros for 2 nights, including breakfast. A lot more than we usually pay in Spain, but not outrageous, at least by USA and other European country standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, nearly everything except bars and restaurants were closed on May 1 as well and I was still running a fever and it seemed I had developed a sinus infection and conjunctivitis. The AI was screaming “see a doctor!” Luckily, when I asked the AI where to find a doctor in Burgos on Labor Day, the AI told me that Spain has great on-line telehealth services. I did some research and ended up contacting virtualclinica.com<\/a>. It was great. Fast and inexpensive (35 euros). I reported my symptoms and did a video call with a doctor and he prescribed antibiotic pills and eye drops and decongestant. We found a pharmacy that was open (every city has at least one that is open no matter what). Total cost for all three prescriptions: 12 euros. Health care is affordable in Spain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We moved to the hotel, Crisol Mes\u00f3n del Cid, which is next to the famous Burgos cathedral. We stayed there May 1 and 2 and I rested and we tried to figure out the rest of our trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our hotel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plaza, cathedral on the left, our hotel on the right, not shown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from our hotel room. Can you see the farm land in the not-far distance? That is where the Camino was headed, where the famous meseta begins, and we weren’t on it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View of the cathedral from the hotel breakfast room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Breakfast buffet. You name it, they had it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Behind the cathedral. I liked this scene. Burgos is a pretty city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back side of the cathedral.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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(This post written on May 4, several days later.) Yep, that illness was not going away!! I didn’t feel up to moving on on the camino and we had to be out of our great apartment. It was May 1 which is Labor Day in Spain. Terrible timing! It was a 3-day holiday weekend in … Continue reading “May 1 and May 2: Two more sick days in Burgos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}