On the road again

Well, it looks like it has been a while since I wrote a post for this blog but I thought I wrote a long one from Burgos. Maybe my addition isn't showing on my iPod. At any rate I have walked into the Meseta, a burning hot Spanish plain with little shade(and lots of wheat fields). My feet are still giving me a great amount of pain. It did not improve by taking time off, although the holiday did help the rest of my body tremendously. I will try to have me feet examined when next I have an opportunity. The towns here are very small. The heat everyday doesn't help either, it makes the pain and swelling much worse. I'm taking ibuprofen regularly, which is very common among pilgrims. And last might in Hornillos del Camino a Croatian woman showed me how to do a yoga exercise that seems to help. Writing about it made me think I should do it so now as I write I am in a yoga position too. I am travelling now with a Canadian woman who goes the same distance as I do. We don't walk together each day as she walks fast, but I usually have been catching up to her for a morning break. Then we have been staying at the same place each night.it helps to have someone to go to dinner with. Tomorrow we go to Fromista. We are still about 6 days from Leon. Tonight I am in Castrojeriz and there is a semifinal soccer match on between Spain and Portugal so everyone in town is gathered around a television. It's late and I think I will take the opportunity to take a second shower before bed.