[Gocamino] Santa Catalina albergue in Burgos

[blaroli@aol.com]

You are quite right..... there was a small religious-run  albergue closer to the center of the city.  I was referring to the larger, public, Xunta overseen, albergue that was way out on the large park, and where most summer pilgrims used.  
As I remember, there were three or four other small private, or religious, albergues, as it is usual in all larger cities, including Santiago.
I should have made it clear that I was referring to the non-private albergue.  My apologies.
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: machi at telsur.cl
To: Gocamino at oakapple.net
Sent: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Santa Catalina albergue in Burgos


>  the Camino overseers in Castille have announced that on August  
> 1st., two days hence, the Santiago y Santa Catalina albergue will  
> reopen.  This albergue is comfortable, welcoming, well furbished  
> and, best of all, a scant few meters from the magnificent Burgos  
> Cathedral.

    This is good news, indeed; I liked very much that cathedral,  
specially the music and the stories told by the touch of it's ancient  
stones.

> I'm sure we all remember that for quite a few years (too many, in  
> my view) pilgrims had to walk and walk through Burgos, almost to  
> the outskirts, to find the albergue; it was situated in the middle  
> of a large park area, almost in th outskirts of the city.

    Please don't exaggerate; it was no more the eight blocks away from  
the plaza. And the grounds around it were wonderful...provided you  
were barefoot :-)

    From the green islands of Patagonia

    Machi
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