Camino de Santiago

This past Saturday as a part of BU's seminar class we walked an hour of the camino de Santiago which leads to a city where Saint Jame's bones are buried near the Atlantic coast of Spain, it is one of the three holy sites for Catholics. The Camino is really imporant as far as the development of the north of Spain. Most of the towns that ran along the camino's path were built for the pilgrims in the middle ages including Burgos the town I am studying in. First we drove about twenty minutes west to a very small town which we walked through in about 5 minutes that is just there for the pilgrims there are houses, lodging, and resturants on either side of the actual road but not much else in the surround area. Then we drove another 10 minutes and got out to walk for about 1 hour to where an old hospital is located and then we drove another 15 minutes to another small camino town where we had lunch and then got a tour of the wine cellars from the resturant owner (because our director appears to know everyone). After that we got a tour of two different churchs from a priest, one of the churches was locked and he had to open the door with two super huge keys ( the really old fashion ones) and it has made me decide that I want to redo the door of whatever house I buy so they have keys like that (so I can be like "wait hold on, let me just get my very large key out" hehe). After this we drove back to Burgos.