{"id":1123,"date":"2026-05-05T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:44:51","slug":"may-3-travel-day-burgos-to-palencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/05\/05\/may-3-travel-day-burgos-to-palencia\/","title":{"rendered":"May 3: Travel Day, Burgos to Palencia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Written on May 5.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, given my illness, what were our plans for after I got well? We had originally planned to spend a week in Zamora after we finished this year’s Camino in Sahag\u00fan on May 6. We had the option to cancel the Zamora plan and spend that week finishing the Camino. When I got sick, we had to cancel all our upcoming reservations for hotels, etc. At this point, private rooms on the Camino were scarce. It wasn’t at all clear we’d be able to get accommodations at short notice except for bunk bed albergues. And Charlie and I had decided … no more of those.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was feeling a lot better by the 3rd. It was looking like soon I’d be able to start walking again. But … because of the accommodation problem we reluctantly decided that it would be best to not try to finish. I was really disappointed. Already feeling nostalgia for our daily walks in the pretty countryside and through the little towns, never having to retrace our steps. Getting into a delightful town and into our accommodation for the night. Making brief connections with the pilgrims and locals along the way. But then we thought about scrambling to find places to stay. We probably made the right decision but it made me very sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We decided to leave Burgos and come to Palencia for a few days. It is a medium sized city (77,000). We rented an Airbnb for 4 nights in Palencia and then we will move on on Thursday to spend the planned week in Zamora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, May 3 was a travel day. We didn’t have to leave our Burgos hotel till noon so we (1) had another good breakfast at the hotel, (2) walked the Camino to the edge of Burgos and back (about 4 miles round trip, much of it through a neat park), (3) packed up and then took a taxi to the train station, (5) took a train to Palencia, (6) got into our Airbnb, (7) took a walk around Palencia and were awestruck by the huge and pretty cathedral — third largest in Spain!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where the Camino leaves Burgos (looking back into Burgos park). There was a scene in the movie The Way <\/em>at this spot, we think.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We are just starting to see storks. There are two in this photo. Can you find them? Look up, look down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Magpie on the Burgos walk. We hear it is bad luck if you only see one (and not two).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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River in Palencia. The whitish stuff on the water is “cotton” from the trees. We found out it was from poplar trees, also called Alamos. In other words, cottonwoods! The trees don’t look like the cottonwoods in Albuquerque but the cotton coming out of the trees and filling the air does!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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(Written on May 5.) So, given my illness, what were our plans for after I got well? We had originally planned to spend a week in Zamora after we finished this year’s Camino in Sahag\u00fan on May 6. We had the option to cancel the Zamora plan and spend that week finishing the Camino. When … Continue reading “May 3: Travel Day, Burgos to Palencia”<\/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-1123","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\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}