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🇪🇸 Ruta de la LANA (Valencia/Alicante - Burgos)
And we're off. Camino de la Lana. May 2019.
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[QUOTE="Undermanager, post: 746107, member: 46206"] Rest day in Cuenca After showering and getting ready to go out at in my really nice, friendly, helpful hotel at the end of stage 11 yesterday evening, I just put my head down for five minutes. The next thing I knew it was 7.00am! I must have been tired or perhaps the adrenalin of the last few hours was keeping me awake so have decided to take a day off, book another day at the hotel, relax, see the sights during the day and this evening, read a bit about the coming stages and let my body recover from the constant poundings it's been getting for the last 11 days. I've also decided that a month's walking will be enough for this trip so have to work out how to get from Burgos to Birmingham on the 4th or 5th June and book it up. There are lots of permutations. I think if all goes well I will finish on the 3rd, so have a bit of wiggle room or a day's sight seeing somewhere. Thinking back over the last few weeks, it's been great. Early to mid May seemed a great time in past years as well as for this one: nicely warming up but not too hot, much of the rain has passed, a few more people walking but on this route anyway, not too many. Wild flowers bursting with colour everywhere. On many days even now in May, by around two o clock the heat starts to sap the energy very quickly and it's hard to keep going, although the last few days have been just perfect all day long. I guess June will be hotter but early starts and finishing by early afternoon may make it fine. So far, I've not seen rain, and long may this last! So, the washed out underpants are drying, hanging from the window handle and I stepped out for breakfast at a wonderful leisurely 9:30am to a very bright, very chilly day - perfect for hiking! But no weight on my back for me today! Oh no! It's just a couple of coffees, some toast then a whole day to mooch, maybe check out some of the features of my P20 Pro's camera yet, which I've not had time to do so far. It's always been on automatic! So what is Cuenca famous for again? I ought to read a bit about that over coffee and toast as well. Is it like Norfolk? I downloaded and explored the Google Translate app during the day. Amazing! You just open it up, select the camera icon, take a photo of an info sign, menu etc, and it's translated. I compared it to info boards and menus that were in both Spanish and English and was very impressed. I also played around with the monochrome lens on the P20 Pro camera phone today. I think I'm going to end up sounding evangelical about this phone but you can get some great photos on it. I have been lowering the EV setting, then reducing the brightness and contrast to play around with sillouettes. All good fun but I think I need nightime for this and some scenes with a bit of backlight. Still, you get some good outcomes, and great tips on YouTube! I've never been great with heights but the Puente San Anton bridge is positively evil. That bridge doesn't seem at all substantial. Great views but really hard for me to look over the edge! Old Cuenca is wonderful. It was a top move having a one day break here. I feel revitalised. Very impressive old buildings mixed in with great views and tourists eating and snapping. After about three hours of general wandering, I headed down to a bar near the Parque De San Julian, where I had a beer con limon and a bowl of their delicious seafood pasta concoction from their meter wide hotplate. There are many such bars open this Sunday lunchtime. Time for a late afternoon siesta. Not planning much later. Just the plan to go home and reading up on the next few stages .... [/QUOTE]
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