{"id":1456,"date":"2013-04-14T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2013-04-14T09:06:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T16:06:33","slug":"holy-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/holy-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

1<\/span>3 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 while 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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13 April 2013 Burgos Cathedral this morning. I really wish I could upload photos from this connection, as I probably took a hundred or more. We spent about two hours wandering through this – superlatives fail me – magnificent? glorious? fantastical? – Gothic marvel in stone. I was a little disturbed by the decision to turn much of the structure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pilgrim-reports","category-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1458,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}