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...
Day 16 - Valdesalor to Casar de Caceres. Today I didn't expect to be too hard a day, it was about 22 kilometres, although the weather in the afternoons is still quite hot. Hopefully, as we get further north, it will start to cool a bit. The first bit then to Caceres...
Day 17 - Casar de Caceres to Grimaldo. Now, this day was always going to be a bit of a challenge because the idea has been to walk from Casar de Caceres past the embalse, the big reservoir, up to a casa rural. But that is about a 33.8 kilometer day, which is a little...
Day 18 - Grimaldo to Galisteo. Because of the heat of the day we had a pre dawn start from Grimaldo. It was going to be about a 20 kilometre day to Galisteo. The owner of the Casa Rural where we stayed the night before gave us some very good information about the...
Day 19 - Galisteo to Jarilla. Today was yet another great day on the camino. It was a day where there were a few challenges and a few options. On this section walking between Galisteo and basically Aldeanueva del Camino we have a few challenges because it's a long...
VdlP Day 20 - Jarilla to Banos de Montemayor. Just 20 kms today. This day again had some options. I have to say it was a really good day's walking. The staff in the Hostel Asturias gave us some information and some directions on walking the Via Verde. The Via Verde is...
VdlP Day 21 - Banos de Montemayor to La Calzada. A short day today just over 12 kilometres, it's because of juggling the stages. Sometimes it's a little bit of a challenge on the VDLP. You have to perhaps have a short day now and get on again on a very long day. I...
Day 22 - La Calzada to Fuenterroble. Just 20 kms today. Fuenterroble is well known for the Donativo albergue run by Father Don Blas. So that was going to be an interesting end today. I was looking forward to seeing it. It was a pre-dawn start again because the...
Recent Comments