BURGOS

I went to Burgos on Saturday January 29th! I know this blog post is very late, but things have just been crazy in Spain!
Overall, Burgos was a beautiful city, and quite an adventure! We took a train that took about an hour and a half to reach the city. Our train left at 7AM! So we had a full day in the city. As we got closer and closer, we realized that there was SNOW on the ground! (I know this doesn’t seem that weird for those of you in Wisconsin… but for Spain, it was shocking).
Once we got there, we started walking towards the main plazas and the things we wanted to see for the day… except we got a little lost, so we asked someone where we were and he said to get there, we needed to take a bus, which seemed weird since we were pretty close on the map. But we found a bus anyways, and then I decided to get off too early, so we walked about forty minutes to the main city (and figured that we must have walked the wrong way to have been that lost!)
Things that we saw in Burgos:
-Plaza de El Cid (A famous person that we learned about in literature class that died in Burgos…)
-Museo de Evolución Humana (Human Evolution Museum): We were going to get to go to caves that were nearby, but the weather was bad (or maybe we just couldn’t go because it was winter..?). But the museum was very cool overall. There was a lot of information about early excavation sites, the brain, ecosystems and other cool stuff.
-Castle: Any old city in Spain needs a castle. We hiked up lots and lots of stairs to get to the top of a huge mountain to see the castle… Only to realize that the castle was already closed a half hour earlier than it was supposed to! But the view from the top of the mountain was completely worth it, even not being able to walk inside the castle.
-Catedral: Like castles, any older city in Spain needs to have a cathedral. It is so hard to describe the beauty of the cathedral, because it is something that you just need to see for yourself! My pictures couldn’t even take in half of how amazing it was! It was huge though, and the tomb of El Cid was there too.
-Then we ate lunch, and I had the bocadilla (sandwich) that my host mom packed for me.
-Monastery de las Huelgas: We were going to take a tour in Spanish, but the lady selling the tickets said that if we were going to take the train, we had to leave right away to walk to the train station, which was kind of confusing since it was very close on the map to the train station. So, we decided to take a few pictures and then leave. We got to the train station on the map, which turned out to be the OLD train station! It turns out that the new train station (where we started and had to end up) wasn’t even on the map! It was about five miles away, and we did not have time (or want!) to walk there. So we ended up getting taxis, and that was my first taxi ride ever!

So there’s the Burgos adventure! A beautiful city that was definitely worth the trip!