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Burgos, buffer day before setting off again.
I was still in Burgos: last full day in the city before getting back on the road.
The day was mostly logistics and meetings. In the morning I moved around the city for the boot issue, while in chats I coordinated meetups with several people.
In late morning I met Danielle. Then in the afternoon I wrote to Chris and Mark to understand where the group was and fit in one last meeting before leaving Burgos.
During the day I had also started asking pilgrims to write me a phrase or a thought on my walking stick: it was becoming a small living archive of the Camino, with signatures and messages collected along the way. By then, though, from striking the ground at every step, that stick was getting shorter and shorter, and I knew I would soon have to start using another one. But I would never leave that one behind: I would keep carrying it with me anyway, even when it was no longer in use.
Toward evening the meetup became concrete: near the cathedral I met Giselle, Chris, Jessica, Catherine, and the Orisson group. We had dinner together and it was a very pleasant evening. In the photo where I make a funny “sad” face, I was joking, pretending I still had not been served my drink while everyone else had.
At 23:30 I set off again: from Burgos the mesetas were starting and I wanted to face them at night. Chris had lent me his headlamp, very useful to start in the dark (I would return it months later, when I went to the United States).
Light stone of the cathedral, glasses on outdoor tables, and a city full of voices before the nighttime departure.
Stops in cities are not “empty pauses”: they are for solving practical issues and reinforcing bonds before getting back on the road.
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