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[QUOTE="timr, post: 569184, member: 5237"] Thursday 23 November 2017 Day two Puente Duero to Peñaflor de Hornija. 28.6 km Total 28.6km 'Anchoas y Jamones' Wonderful breakfast of coffee and tostada and mermelada all made by me! When Arturo is there you aren't even allowed to turn on the tap without supervision!:eek: Key hidden and off I went, along the Duero river to Siamancas with a fine church - open - and a bar for coffee. Two major items on the TV news, neither related to the UK budget yesterday with big implications for the catastrophe that is Brexit. (Other opinions are of course available.) No! Much more important than that. Two unrelated robberies in Spain. One was of 500kg of [I]anchoas[/I] (anchovies) and the other of a large quantity of [I]jamones[/I] (Serrano ham on the bone). The latter was recorded in eery monochrome CCTV. Much telepunditry. At my age, and with my predispositions, I'm unlikely to take up a life of crime. But if I did, I can think of few things I would rather steal than jamon and anchoas! Food for thought!:oops: Siamancas a fine town with 32 million documents in the national archive among its attractions. Suddenly as you leave Siamancas you are back on the meseta, a vast plateau devoid of trees which in season produces wheat and sunflowers. Ploughing time right now with some winter wheat just appearing, but essentially the landscape is featureless. You either love it or hate it. I love it. It is bit like walking on Mars if the film 'The Martian' is to be believed. Ciguñuela next - a church might have been visited or a bar, but an elderly widower waylaid me for a bit of Spanish conversation practice - me not him. He wanted to show me a modern sculpture of a pilgrim reading a map which I would surely have missed. He took my photo and I took his. From there across the flatlands 7km to Wamba. There are two common deceptions on the meseta - a town whose church you can see in the distance at least an hour before you arrive and a town which nestles hidden in a hollow almost causing despair that you will ever find it. Wamba is in the latter category. Lovely caña and bocadillo in Bar El Rincón. And a coffee for good measure. Then 7 km to Peñaflor de Hornija which is in the other category - you can see it for ages, but wonder if you will ever reach it. Towards the end I missed an arrow and found myself a ploughed field away from the path. I don't like walking across a ploughed field especially as there was a man nearby raking a huge field and removing large stones. So I circled around the perimeter of several fields before escaping. My gpx trace looks like figure skating. During the night I dreamt of a woman whose job it was to put the stones back into fields! I found the albergue and found the hospitalera. Not much else to find. I visited the church in which three ladies 'of a certain age' were having choir practice. I found the bar and was delighted he was able to rustle up a bocadillo. Again. This Camino route is far from the cafe con leche and menu del peregrino ambiance of the Francés. There is a supermarket - but it was closed. There is a frutería - but it was closed. A good night's sleep. Total pilgrims met - 0 [/QUOTE]
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