It rained much of the night last night but was clear and sunny this morning when we left our Casa Rural in Santa Catalina de Somoza.
We would spend the whole day today across a valley from Mount Telenos, the site of ancient Roman gold mines.
Here is Mount Telenos at the beginning of our walk today on the road just outside Santa Catalina.
A lot of our walking over the past two weeks has been over the Via Romana, which was built to transport gold from Mount Telenos to Rome.
Our first stop today was the village of El Ganso, home of the Cowboy Bar and Restaurant, which has one of the few foosball tables along the Camino:
Nobody was playing foosball when we checked in this morning, but people were drinking beer, perhaps getting ready for a game.
From El Ganso, the Camino climbed through a woods.
After a couple of hours of walking, we came to the village of Rabanal del Camino.
Just outside Rabanal is the Ermita del Benedito Cristo de la Vera Cruz, home of Erman’s Ermits.
Here is the church in the center of Rabanal.
After leaving Rabinal, the Camino continued to climb.
Near the top of the climb, the clouds lifted from Mount Telenos.
And here is Mt. Telenos from a lot across the street from our albergue in Foncebadon.
The number of people on the Camino has picked back up after dropping between Burgos and Leon. The crowd seems younger. There are a lot of pilgrims in their 20’s and 30’s.
Anne’s hiker’s rash has returned, but over a much smaller area of her leg. My leg is almost completely healed.
We start out with a short climb tomorrow, and then a long, steep descent to Molinaseca, where we will spend the night.
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