Day 16 - 17 Walking on Potatoes!

It's hard to describe the kind of path we are walking on, but Gerry from Florida nailed it - it's like walking on potatoes (very hard ones)! Imagine if you mixed a box of new jersey bennies, some nadines, some red desirees and a whole pile of large ruas and tipped them onto some dirt and let 10,000 feet walk over them. Not to mention the potato tortillas for breakfast, chips with lunch and potatoes for dinner - we are truly walking on potatoes!! 

It was lovely getting on the road early with the sun rising and a cool breeze on our backs. Wheat is being harvested everywhere and we are now seeing big rectangle hay stacks and the newly planted sun flowers growing bigger before our eyes. There is nothing monotonous about the Meseta.

In all the tiny villages we are intrigued by the subterranean houses built into the hills. People are still living in them - they would be wonderfully cool in the height of summer. They remind us of Hobbiton; Simon thought Peter Jackson should come over and shoot "Lord of the GRingos" I have to endure his humour daily!! He is having great fun giving all the hard to pronounce towns nicknames.  We've been to Eldorado (Belorado),  Acapulco (Atapuerca), Godzilla (Calzadilla) just to mention a few! Those of you who know Simon well, will back me up when I say he has a lousy sense of direction and is not a great map reader - he can't believe how many towns are called Cruce, Fuente, Puente and Iglesia (cross, fountain, bridge and church)!

Today is Corpus Christi, and we have just had lunch in Casa Simon with all the locals having post church drinks (they don't eat lunch until 4pm), we were celebrating officially getting to the half way mark. Buen Camino from Sahagun, 400km to go!