Life’s not so tough all the time along the Camino.
Today we take time out from learning. Instead we take the picnic boxes specially prepared in the kitchens of Hotel Marqués de Riscal into a park in the little village of Santo Domingo de Silos nestled in the countryside of Castille.
Jamon! Pan! Vino! Spanish!
After lunch, we walk to the Monastery and listen to the monks pray the Vespers in Gregorian Chant, before continuing on to the next town on the Camino, León.
The men deliver the Picnic specially prepared in the kitchens of the Marques de Riscal winery in individual presentation wooden wine boxes
Our wooden picnic bos
Feasting on jamon pan and vino in the park in SAnto Domingo de Silos
Gerardo Diego wrote a famous sonnet to this cypress tree in the cloisters of Santo Domingo de Silos in the mid-1950's. "Enhiesto surtidor de sombra y sueno' Shadow spout upright and sleep . . .
Michael, Juanita and Pablo enjoy a coffee before the last leg of the day to León