Belorado

More beautiful open farmland rolling out into the distance.

This is a large cereal growing area and consequently they have a lot of bales such as this huge stack. 

And that little speck is me!

And despite all the cereals, there was a single self seeded sunflower plant at the road side.

I reached Belorado and had lunch in one of the cafes. There is a set dinner menu for pilgrims, a starter, a main course, bread, dessert and a glass of wine all for just ten euro. And it is not just dished out of a large saucepan, it is carefully presented such as this main course of vegetable lasagne.well presented

The church in the main plaza, San Pedro, but nearly half the churches along the route are dedicated to Santa Maria. They skimped on the cost of this one as there are only a few cut stone blocks for the corners, many of the walls are rounded stones pulled out of the local river.

And it couldn't be called Santa Maris because this Santa Maria church set against a sandstone cliff where hermits lived in caves until the church was built.

And the church is festooned with untidy stork's nests. They return to the same nest each year and add a few more twigs so that you can tell the age by the size and they keep building it until it falls over or is blown over and they start again on the same site.

A detail of some windows built into the cliffs behind the church.