Some early morning shots of Santa Maria de Astorga. (Audrey Hepburn on a fire escape with a weird head-wrap) Carrot cake from a cafe in (I believe) Santa Colomba de Somoza. A basking cat on the way out of town. A church in Rabanal del Camino. I was going to

A vista from between Mansilla and Leon. Crossing the walls to Leon’s old city. A street fair viewed from another section of Roman walls. Gaudi’s Casa Botines (r) and Leon’s seat of provincial government from the same section of wall. One of my phone’s camera lenses

Looking back on the way out of Moratinos. The chapel from an old monastery approaching Sahagun. The monastery’s former gate. Passing through Sahagun. I took an alternate route after Sahagun, opting to branch off at a town called Calzada del Coto to follow the Roman road. That put me

A little chapel on the way out of Fromista: The portal of Santa Maria la Blanca in Villacazar de Sirga: Some sort of tower on the way out of Villacazar: What appear to be municipal silos on the way into Carrion de Los Condes, where I put up. After feeling

Leaving Castrojeriz involved walking up a massive hill pretty promptly. Here's a view back at the city on the way up. Here is the way west on the other side of a little meseta. Bridge and view from bridge heading towards Itero de la Vega Canal lock outside

This is what I get for being this way. Here are some charming cows I saw on the way into San Juan de Ortega on Friday. Burgos is big enough that even before you hit its suburbs, there is a fairly dense collection of villages surrounding it. I stayed in

Dawn after departing Azofra: Sliding through a series of tubes into Santo Domingo de la Calzada: I stopped for some refreshments in ol’ Santo Domingo, and if you want to know the state of culture I sipped my coffee to Blue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_(Da_Ba_

Here is Iglesia de Santo Sepulcro at Torres del Rio, which is apparently a sort of miniature of Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. It is, if we're being honest, more interesting to consider than it was to visit. Here is a truly stunning cat I

Just a pause for a night cat, who I photographed the evening of the previous entry: Dawn on the way out of Pamplona: If you can squint you can see how looking east off a bridge earlier, the sky looked exactly like the cover of Quarter Moon in a Ten