Sahagún – October 17, 2016

Vic was still not well enough this morning to walk, mainly as she didn’t want to stray too far from a flush toilet.  A bush was not to be enough.  We got a taxi to Sahagún for the day’s trip.

The hotel here is a four star Hilton clone.  The wide open reception area alone is big enough to hold our whole hotel from last night.  The service is excellent and the food is great.

It is located the best part of a km from the center of town though.  Vic slept and I walked in to have a look.  It is pretty sad – it is a dying town, and probably has been dying for 500 years.  It is Monday so most things were closed, which didn’t help the dreary atmosphere.

The town was traded back and forth between the Christians and the Muslims for several hundred years and they each had a hand in destroying the architecture.  There is little left of the several large churches – only arches and ruins.  The construction is mostly thin red brick and mortar, rather than stone, and it has not survived well. Sahagún itself has not been a high point on the walk.

4 thoughts on “Sahagún – October 17, 2016”

  1. Hope you’re feeling better today, Vic…and that it’s not contagious for Stacey’s sake! If you ARE up to walking, may you find a convenient bush handy if you need it! Keep us posted on your progress XXOO!

  2. Wow, it sounds as if the Camino gods have it in for you, MaryAnne, and there is nothing worse than feeling ill away from home. And some of these little “towns” must seem like miles from nowhere, even if there are people passing through. Hope that rest and fluids and any available drugs will help you beat the bugs.

  3. Oh dear…having an affair with any toilet not a good sign….
    You are missing the Blue Jays trying to stay in the race against the Cleveland Indians…or if one were politically correct you would say against the Cleveland First Nations…I think or just revisit the whole thing. A Toronto judge ruled in favour of keeping the name for tonight’s game..and so it goes on this right little island

  4. Sorry you’re under the weather. I guess every place has its equivalent of Montezuma’s revenge or the Inca two step.

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