Day 6 on the VdlP. 20 kms today from El Real de la Jarra to Monesterio. It was an early Camino start in the dark in search of breakfast. I had to walk from the far side of town, back through town, but found a great bar open. There always seems to be a bar open...
Day 7 on the Via de la Plata. It's 20.7 kms from Monesterio to Fuente de Cantos. A comfortable distance for me. It was also my first day at leaving much earlier. I mean early ‘pre-dawn’. I thought I might not find any breakfast, always a risk with a very early...
Day 8 - Fuente de Cantos to Zafra. 24.2 kms today. But the last 4 was alongside a road, so my feet were complaining. Another great day! Starting in the dark at 6:30 am. And again I find a great bar just opening for breakfast. It's 6.2 kms to the next village, and I...
Day 9 Zafra to Villafranca de los Barros. Not a great sleep last night. There were a lot of partying going on right outside my room. But nevermind, today is a relatively okay day in terms of distance – 20 kms. So, I’m going to have a slow and steady day. I was hoping...
So today was the day that I thought might be a challenge because it's 27 kilometres with no stops. Unless you take a detour of 4 kilometers off the Camino, but it turned out to be a really great day. I explain the detour in the video below. The Walking surface was...
Day 11 - Torremejia to Merida. Today is just a short day of 15 kilometers. The weather is great and the walking was fairly easy. Before I set off for the day though, I'm going to show you around the Albergue that I stayed in to give you an idea of what Albergues are...
It's a day off in Merida. I always feel a little bit awkward about having days off because sometimes your body tells you that you need to take a rest, particularly your feet. Very often you want to just keep moving, but I think it is sensible to have a day off now and...
Day 13 - Merida to Aljucen. Just 17 kms today. It was either that or 36 kms. It was another fantastic day on the Via de la Plata Camino. It started off with a before dawn start, and in fact I managed to time it so that during twilight, as I was leaving the city, I...
Day 14. Another lovely day today, walking from Aljucen to Alcuescar. It is about 19 kilometres walking through lovely countryside. I saw amazing cows walking along these country tracks, and the whole herd of cows were across the track, all around me, and it was good...
Day 15 – Alcuescar to Valdesalor. 26 kms. That's a long way for me. It’s quite a long day today and as the afternoons are getting quite hot, it was going to be a pre dawn start. It was a great day's walking though, nice and flat, great scenery. Although it did start...
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