Day Eleven - Santiago - Burgos

Time to say farewell to Santiago, our time of revelling in the glow of achievement and enjoying the status of peregrino is over!  By 8.00 am our bags had been packed into the taxi that was to take us back to our friends car at Sarria where we had started our Camino six days ago.  As we sped along the 90 minutes journey, we could retrace the Camino from the window of the car, watching the peregrinos making their way to their goal....Santiago!

It was brewing up to be another scorcher of a day, but by three in the afternoon we had booked into our overnight hotel in Burgos, and we were ready to go and explore!!

Only a few steps away and we were in the square standing looking up at the truly enormous Cathedral, looking even more incredible against the blue of the cloudless sky!  This giant gothic cathedral commands a central position in the old city.  

Our tickets paid we went inside this ancient building!  So many aspects, 
treasures, features to see!  Enormous, ornate gold altarpieces, so many of them they almost became commonplace! Totally over the top in decorative design, which is described as 'horror vacui' or 'cenophobia' meaning the fear of empty spaces.  These altarpieces and chapels certainly fell into this category!  There was so much that it left the visitor overwhelmed  I'll be honest I didn't liked a lot of it!  The atmosphere in this Cathedral was like no other we'd visited recently.  It felt 
like it was a show piece, a museum rather than a church, at least that's how I felt.  But awesome it truly was, especially the dome!  

The summer warmth embraced us as we left the cathedral, and went to find somewhere to eat.

We have a long trip tomorrow, so we intend to leave early.  Our next destination is Poitiers in France which is 420 miles away!