VDLP Day 30 - Zamora. A rest day! It is a fairly lazy day of walking around the inner part of the city, hanging out, and having a coffee in the Plaza Mayor. There are an amazing number of old churches in Zamora, and I think we probably looked at 8 or 9 of them and...
VDLP Day 31 - Zamora to Montamarta Today was a fairly short day, 19 kilometres from Zamora to Montamarta. We left quite early from Zamora and managed to catch breakfast just on the edge of town. On the way out of Zamora it's pretty much roads for 5 or 6 kilometres and...
Via de la Plata Day 32 - Montamarta to Granja to Benavente. Today was the walk from Montamarta to Granja, which had an interesting outcome. The walk was really nice. There was a great view over the embalse, fantastic scenery, and great walking surfaces. What was...
Via de la Plata Day 33 - Benavente to Alija. Today was a fantastic day for walking. We managed to find a GPS track for the Via Verde or Camino Natural, which took us from the outside the albergue in Benavente practically all the way to Alija. And it was a disused...
VdlP Day 34 - Alija to La Bañeza The walk today was from Alija to La Bañeza. It was a glorious days walking of about 21 kms. It was mostly along dirt paths next to a river for most of the day, and we were very lucky that part of the way along we found a village where...
VDLP Day 35 - La Bañeza to Astorga. My last day on the Via de la Plata. This was 24 kilometres from La Bañeza to Astorga. It was the final day of the Via de la Plata. The Via de La Plata runs of course from Seville all the way north to Astorga. Most of the people that...
Day 36 - Camino Frances Day 1 - Astorga to Rabanal Day 36 overall, and my first day back on to the Camino Frances, and it was a relatively short flat day. I was only walking from Astorga to Rabanal, which is just over 20 kilometres. I left very early, I think I left...
Day 37 - Rabanal to El Acebo - Camino Frances Day 2 I decided that I wasn't going to leave too early from Rabanal for a couple of reasons. One, there were so many new albergues in Foncebadón that I expected there would be a lot of people up at the Cruz de Ferro early....
Day 38 - El Acebo to Ponferrada - Camino Frances Day 3 Another relatively short day, but not an easy day because it was from El Acebo down to Ponferrada. My memory has been failing me and I thought I remembered that the descent from El Acebo down to Molinaseca was...
I certainly felt the ascent and descent over the Cruz de Ferro in my legs yesterday and actually started to feel the early stages of shin splints coming into Ponferrada. Yikes! So, I was extremely glad to have a rest day. I had to try and resist the temptation to walk...
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