Recuperating in Burgos

When I arrived in Logorno I took my shoe off and found that the blister between my third and fourth toe was bloody and my whole foot was swollen. During the night my foot was throbbing and I couldn't put any weight on it. The next morning my whole foot was red and I was shivering. I couldn't put my shoe on so I hobbled to a hospital in a flip flop. The emergency room at the first hospital I went to was closed. As I left the hospital I was in tears, I didn't know what to do. I was approached by two medical workers in lab coats, one had blue hair. They told me what hospital I had to go to and walked me to a bus stop. At the bus stop they found some people who were going to ride the bus to the hospital. They asked them to make sure I got to the emergency room. At the hospital I was seen by a doctor and he told me my foot was infected, as if I didn't know. He told me to get some antibiotics which I could do without a prescription and to rest my foot until Monday. The hospital did not charge me. I took the bus from Logorno to Burgos where I found a hotel. The heat in the hotel is only turned on at nine at night.

Today it is snowing in Burgos. All of my clothes are filthy. I found a laundromat but they wanted €15 to wash and dry my clothes. I walked back to the hotel and washed my clothes by hand in the shower. My room is now covered with wet clothes, if the heat was turned on in the room it would feel like a sauna. Instead it feels like a freezer on defrost.

I'm trying to decide what to do now. My friends from Hungary will arrive in Burgos on Monday night. I've looked at weather predictions for cities around Europe. It's raining most everywhere.

I have enjoyed walking with Ildiko and Botond. Actually I think the only good thing about walking the Camino is the relationships that develop with the people with whom you walk. Much of the Camino is on dirt paths parallel to major roads. It is hardly a pristine experience.