I got the dining schedule right today! Coffee and croissant at 8:30a. Coffee and tortilla (egg and potato dish) at 11a. Three course Menu del Dia (roasted vegetables, lamb ragout, cake) at 3p. Goat cheese salad at 9p.
In-between dining, I did some shopping, visited the Museum of Human Evolution, connected with a few people, and wandered. It was a very nice day.
The museum was fascinating. It's here in Burgos because just a few miles away, in the hills that I walked through yesterday, are the Atapuerca archeological sites - where the oldest human bones in Europe have been discovered. The oldest fragments uncovered so far are 1.2 to 1.4 million years old. In the museum, I was looking at actual bones from 950,000 years ago, and tools (sharpened rocks) from 1.2 million years. So... maybe 50,000 generation, or so? (Although, any surviving line from these sites probably led to Neanderthals, and thus were wiped out a while back.)
Tomorrow, I plan to visit the cathedral.
