{"id":1143,"date":"2026-05-06T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:58:40","slug":"day-trip-to-sahagun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/05\/06\/day-trip-to-sahagun\/","title":{"rendered":"Day trip to Sahag\u00fan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday, May 5, we caught a 7:45 am train from Palencia to Sahag\u00fan. It’s a 45 minute train ride. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sahag\u00fan was where we had originally planned to end our Camino and where we had mailed our suitcase containing things we only needed for the last week in Zamora and on the airplane. We needed to go to Sahag\u00fan to pick up the suitcase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spanish Post Office does a great service for pilgrims letting you mail things from one PO on the Camino to another for decent rates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our return train to Palencia didn’t leave till 3:15 so we had several hours to spend in Sahag\u00fan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m pretty sure we saw at least 200 pilgrims while we were there. Sahag\u00fan is the exact midway point on the Camino Frances: half way between Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Santiago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lovely young employee in the PO gave us our bag and then I, with some trepidation, asked “would it be possible to leave it here with you while we are out for the day”. She didn’t hesitate one bit but said “of course”. She told us we had to get it before the PO closed at 2:30 and not to come when she’d be on her break between 1:00 and 1:15. We were glad not to have to lug the suitcase around with us all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then asked for a recommendation for where to eat breakfast and another woman in the PO, a customer, walked us outside and showed us where to go. She didn’t lead us wrong. We had a most enjoyable breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After breakfast, we headed out on the Camino. Yep, that was our plan for the day. We didn’t walk too far, about 4 miles out and 4 miles back. I counted the pilgrims we passed when walking back to town: 92 peregrinos and 7 bicigrinos (bicycle pilgrims). This was mid-day. We were surprised to see so many that time of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the Camino, you seldom see pilgrims heading any way but in the same direction you are walking: west. Nearly everyone smiled at us and said “hola” and most had a quizzical look in their eye like “huh, why are you walking the wrong way? You don’t look like locals.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heading out on the Camino in Sahag\u00fan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The cliche is that “the Camino provides”. Just at the point where we needed to turn back on our walk, we came to a great bar, the first on the walk. I had a Kas Lim\u00f3n, my new go-to drink when I’m thirsty, and Charlie had a caf\u00e9 con leche. And, of course, we used the aseos!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We met a “burro-grino” as well!! I asked if I could take his photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As we were walking back into town, Charlie and I discussed the possibility we’d run into someone we’d met already. We both thought there’d be little chance since most people would be ahead of us by now. But, we passed this couple above and they recognized us first. You might recognize them from a photo we posted of pilgrims visiting outside our albergue in Atapuerca. They are a really nice couple from Montreal. So much fun to run into them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is Charlie when we were waiting for our train back to Palencia. We were cold. Charlie’s hair was so white and shiny, I told him he looked like the sky and clouds with his white hair and blue ear warmer. The photo didn’t quite pick up how white his hair looked in the light.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday, May 5, we caught a 7:45 am train from Palencia to Sahag\u00fan. It’s a 45 minute train ride. Sahag\u00fan was where we had originally planned to end our Camino and where we had mailed our suitcase containing things we only needed for the last week in Zamora and on the airplane. We needed to … Continue reading “Day trip to Sahag\u00fan”<\/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-1143","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\/1143","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=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}