This was also the day that I had booked a hotel room for the night in Burgos and planned to catch the bus the last few kms into the city. Everyone said it was a horrid and dangerous stretch long motorways and, as I looked out the bus windows I saw that they were not wrong. I was glad to be on the bus.
Burgos itself was really quite nice. I dropped my things at the hotel and then we all went to have a look at the cathedral. Ok from the outside but a very strange and boring set of rooms inside.
Afterwards Maurice and Anita went to catch the train to Bayonne and I wandered happily around - WITHOUT the pack!
I have been meaning to load a photo of these yellow snails that we have seen lots of old men collecting in hedgerows. They are considered a delicacy (which I don´t plan on tasting) and here they are for sale at only 8euro per kg.
What I did taste was by far the best set of tapas I have had on any of my trips to Spain. My favourite (sorry no photo) was a small piece of bread with a tiny quail egg, a piece of black sausage, and a log thin strand of a very picante pepper. For some reason (maybe they don´t do it in the south of Spain) I haven´t tumbled to black sausage before. It is called morcilla in Spanish and is made of rice onion and spices forced into what I presume is some artificial casing. It is definitely vegetarian and absolutely delicious. I will google some recipes and have a go some time.
Jen - great to keep up with how you're getting on! Sounds like you're having an amazing time and discovering heaps of interesting new things. Have to pull you up on the old Morcilla, though...what I hear is that while it may not have meat, per se, inside, it's pig's blood that gives it its colour...
ReplyDeleteJeez Katie, isn't that splitting hairs? I mean the pigs are pretty much entirely vegetarians aren't they?
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