VdlP Day 26 - Salamanca to Calzada de Valdunciel. A fairly short day from Salamanca to Calzada de Valdunciel, just 16 kms. It was that or 36 kms. Nothing particularly remarkable, nice countryside, an open sort of landscape with fields and a couple of small villages on...
VDLP Day 27 - Calzada de Valdunciel to El Cubo. 20.7 kms today. Well, a lot of people report that this particular day or 'section' is not a great one. I didn't mind it actually. It was a great walking surface all day. Okay, it was very close to a motorway, the N-630...
VDLP Day 28 - El Cubo to Villanueva de Campean This was a short day of just over 13 kilometres from El Cubo to Villanueva de Campean. The reason being it was one of those long stages again to go from El Cubo to Zamora, it would be almost 32 kilometres. That's a little...
VDLP Day 29 - Villanueva de Campean to Zamora A short day of just over 18 kilometres from Villanueva de Campean to Zamora. In Zamora I will have another rest day because it seems like a nice place to spend some time. It was a good days walk. There was a little bit of...
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...
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