{"id":59064,"date":"2013-04-14T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/holy-places\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T08:36:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:36:29","slug":"holy-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/holy-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

13 April 2013<\/p>\n

Burgos Cathedral this morning. I really wish I could upload photos from this connection, as I probably took a hundred or more. <\/p>\n

We spent about two hours wandering through this – superlatives fail me – magnificent? glorious? fantastical? – Gothic marvel in stone.<\/p>\n

I was a little disturbed by the decision to turn much of the structure into a museum, seemingly to include virtually all of the little chapels radiating out from the nave. They were, each of them jewels.<\/p>\n

Finally, I think I understand the Gothic aesthetic. It is delicated, intricate, given to flights of fancy but also sublime in tender emotion and explosive in its grandeur.<\/p>\n

It is, above all things, beautiful.<\/p>\n

After saying our goodbyes to Viola (who opted to stay a day or two in Burgos), Eamon and I set off through urban Burgos and onto the Meseta.<\/p>\n

Rolling hills gradually gave way to flatter ground, until you would think the world is made of two hemispheres, emerald and grey below, sapphire and white above.<\/p>\n

Weather was sunny, and soon became quite warm. Given our late start (11:30), we had thought to walk as far as Hornillos del Camino, 18.5 km from Burgos. By the time we arrived, the only albergue was full.<\/p>\n

We had no choice but to walk an additional 5 km in the heat of the late afternoon to Arroyo San Bol.<\/p>\n

I am so very glad we did.<\/p>\n

San Bol is an oasis of tranquility. Mia (of the Irish contingent) and Santiago (from Columbia) were both here, along with a number of Germans and a heavy-set Italian, making us nine in all not including Felix our hospitalero.<\/p>\n

A communal dinner was served, and afterwards we luxuriated in this little copse of trees surrounding an ancient healing spring, hidden in a little valley in the Meseta.<\/p>\n

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