Up and on the road early and headed out in the first light expecting to find a bar for breakfast but everything along the path out of town closed. The coffee, orange juice and tortella at the next village 5 kilometers down the road tasted so good!
A relatively short walk to Santo Domingo de Calzada ( say that 5 times quickly) - only 20 kilometers - so got into the albergue, with 220 of my new closest friends, around midday. After a great lunch in a restaurant on the square, explored the town, found at last an open electrical shop - siesta can be annoying as all the shops shut for long and seemingly random amounts of time - bought a recharger to replace the one I left plugged into the wall in Longrono. Spent a fair bit of time getting my Spanish sim to work, then visited the cathedral. A live chicken and a rooster are housed in a special brightly lit and very ornate hen house built into a wall in the Cathedral, commemorating one of the more celebrated miracles of the eponymous saint, who amongst other things is patron saint of engineers and seniors. An odd combination but whatever. Also a really odd exhibition representing the Easter parade in the town constructed with Lego models.
Sampled some of the excellent wines for which the region is famous, a nice dinner prepared And served up by two hard working senoras then off to the packed dorm where despite creaking bunks snoring shouting laughing doors opening and closing and general mayhem I slept like a top till 6.
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