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[QUOTE="Undermanager, post: 514633, member: 46206"] Day 18 Pajares - Pola de Lena - 27kms The weather forecast for today was bleak and when I woke up, the sky was covered in angry black clouds and had started raining very slightly. By the time I left at 7.00am, it had stopped raining, however. I left the village and followed the Camino down down down into the valley, a steep descent that lasted half an hour. Then, you guessed it, it was up up up for ages. The only rain in the morning turned out to be a light shower after two hours of walking and the clouds kept everything cool. After midday, everything brightened up till mid afternoon. Today was characterised by lots of ups and lots of downs as you mainly skirt around the side, or up and down hill after hill on dirt track, mostly through forest until you get to Campomanes. Everything was green and the views were really fantastic. It's pretty much well-signed everywhere, with the exception of passing through the town of Campomanes, where there seems to be arrows and yellow splotches all over the place. As it was, I just followed the gps track I had, which took me past a small road by a bar, so stopped for a drink. From Campomanes, it is nearly all an old quiet concrete road next to or within earshot of a big busy main road, although you can climb a steep cobblestone path to visit Santa Cristina de L.lena, another church that will almost certainly be closed, if you want to. Or just skip it, look on your map and follow the concrete road until it rejoins the Camino, a little further on. There is an albergue about 1.5kms from Erias called Albergue Santuario de Benduenos. It might be good fun to stay there and split the journey to Pola de Lena but be warned - it is deep in the countryside and there are no nearby shops so you'd have to bring what you need for the evening and the next day's breakfast. There are a fair number of water fountains today so there wasn't a need to take more than a litre of water. If it was hot, you might need to take more. The rain held off until about 10 minutes arriving at Pole de Lena albergue at 3.00pm. Then it really did come down in buckets, complete with thunder and lightening. This stage took about 8 hours and was really nice. The albergue is okay but a bit open, noisy and basic but the showers are fine. There is no kitchen. There are plenty of facilities in the town, and lots of bars selling cider with the party trick of pouring it from a height into the class. Can't quite see the point of it myself but okay to experience once. Tomorrow, have decided to do the 30kms+ and head off straight to Oviedo and have booked a hotel there for two days. Will then head off on the Primitivo on the 13th, which gives me 17 days for the Primitivo, Finisterre and Muxio, before leaving from Santiago on the 30th. [/QUOTE]
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