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    Torremejia - one to avoid

    frjulian - In fairness, I should report one uplifting experience from Torremejia. We were having dinner at the Milenium, bad food served with puzzling ill grace (the latter a rarity in Spain). Three kids around ten years old were the only other people in the dining room, I imagine they lived in...
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    Torremejia - one to avoid

    The Torremejia region was the setting for the novel “The Family of Pascual Duarte”, written by the Spanish Nobel laureate Camilo Jose Cela. It’s one of the bleakest books I’ve ever read, unrelentingly cruel. I stayed in the Hostal Milenium on the Avenida de Extramadura (I still have their card...
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    LIVE from the Camino Live Report from VdlP Starting from Seville on 6/20/18

    Hi Youren2010, same for me, thank you for these marvellous posts, they’re the first thing I read when I get up each morning. You’re capturing the feel, spirit and adventure of the VdLP as I recall it. Look after yourself, and enjoy the moment. Buen Camino, Wes
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    Alert Sevilla to Guillena - River Crossing Flooded Today - April 29, 2017.

    My wife and I crossed the Molinos in April several years ago and the water was chest-deep. We followed an athletic young Swedish woman, and scrambled over on top of flotsam, mostly tree branches. It was a tricky business, wearing backpacks and with boots tied around our necks, but we made it...
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    Transport from towns on Via De la Plata to Madrid

    I took the train from Merida last year and it was a very pleasant experience. It's an opportunity to have a chat to locals who aren't part of the camino industry; Spanish trains are, in my experience, comfortable, clean and well-managed; the service is good; and once you're going it's a fine way...
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    Sevilla or Granada

    Hello, There's a marvellous book about starting from Granada, written by Tony Kevin and titled "Walking the Camino". It's available through Amazon (and other outlets I'm sure) in both paperback and Kindle format. It's not so much a guide as the experiences of one pilgrim, written with...
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    Granada or Seville

    Jenny: If you haven't read it, there's a very good book by Tony Kevin called 'Walking the Camino' (2007), which recounts his experience on the VdlP, starting from Granada. As you indicate, the early stages sound demanding. I walked from Seville to Carceres in April/May 2010 and none of it was...
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    flooding at arroyo de los Molinos north of Santiponce

    We had a similar experience in 2010, when the water was chest-high. We managed to get across only by following an athletic young woman who used debris - shrubs, branches - as support on the edge of the crossing. But it was still a fraught exercise, and half-way over we were wishing we hadn't...
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    Staying in Plasencia

    I detoured via Plasencia a couple of years ago and ended up staying for several days. It's a wonderful place - marvellous history and buildings, lovely plaza, excellent day-walks. We blew our budget and stayed in the Parador, a powerfully atomospheric experience. Let's know how things...
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    getting lonely on via de la Plata

    Anniesantiago: You asked about the weather on the VdlP in April. Last year I left Seville on 20 April and walked to Caceres by 11 May. Light rain fell for a few hours during the evening of day two, in Castilblanco de los Arryos, otherwise it was always fine and sunny. Daytime temperatures were...
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    getting lonely on via de la Plata

    Hello besacier. My wife and I walked from Seville to Carceres last year, starting on 20 April. There were very few peregrinos, only about a dozen or so each day. Usually none was in sight while walking, a huge contrast to the Frances. Nor is there anything like the same number of small villages...

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