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[QUOTE="Bad Pilgrim, post: 1163542, member: 50859"] [B]Day 6: La Robla - Riello, 34 kms[/B] This is actually two stages according to Gronze. But I thought I might as well do both the same day. I forgot to tell you about the fences along the way. There are electric fences that you have to get past. Ok, not like in a state prison. It is just a wire hanging between poles. At least I think they are electric. I grabbed a wire that I was sure was just a rope, and it stung me! From thereon I was afraid to touch any of them!! I learned it is so much easier to lay down and roll over like a dog, under the wire, than crawl on my knees and elbow as if I was in a boot camp. But sometimes it required some acrobatics not to touch it. I think it was on this stage that I got to a wire I didn't know how to tackle, and I got between a cow and her calf... She clearly wanted to get rid of me. She swayed her head and her horns inches from my stomach and followed me until I was on the opposite side. The first time I got threatened by a cow..! I had breakfast in La Magdalena, a town scattered along the road CL-626. The next village, Canales, was practically the same town as La Magdalena: they were that close to each other. I saw the albergue in Canales to my right, with phone numbers to call. It looked like a nice place to spend the night. After Canales the trail veered brutally uphill. Before I started the climb, I saw a young couple that I recognized from a café in La Magdalena half an hour earlier. They asked me if I needed water, or something to eat, and that I could come with them to their house since they lived nearby. I declined, but remained impressed how kind and helpful people are towards strangers! It was very steep, but the views were nice. I wondered what would happen if my backpack would pull me backwards... I would probably roll like a beer can all the way back to Canales. And those black flies followed me up the mountains. I had to choose between using my tilley hat as a weapon against the flies, or keeping it on my head to protect me from the increasing sun. I couldn't get away with a brisk walk either, as I was struggling slowly uphill. The Wikiloc I glanced at often stayed on the road LE-493 instead of on the Camino. Due to rain according to its author. As for me, I dutifully followed the arrows: a long way down from the hills to a dry creek, then up again to a town I thought was Riello... but I still had several kms to go. I only found the detour through the hamlet of Oterico unnecessary. You can just stay on the road LE-493. There will be a gas station with a store on your right side. There are two bar-restaurants next to each other at the plaza in Riello. Hospitalera Laura works in the one called Villamor de Riello. We had decided I would meet her, or Ana, in the bar. I only had time to make eye contact and say hello to Laura, as she was busy working in the kitchen and I didn't want to disturb her. I didn't know how long it would be before we would go by car to their house La Magia de las Nubes. And I didn't care! I was so happy to finally be in Riello, and in a bar. I ordered things to drink and eat while I talked with the other costumers who asked me about my Camino. Everyone was so friendly! After an hour or so Ana emerged from the kitchen, walked right up to me with a big smile and said: You're coming with me! So we jumped into her car. Ana is so cool and easy to talk to! She told me about their work, their home, their cats, that Laura had been a hospitalera in Mansilla de las Mulas on the Camino Francés for more than 20 years, and that she herself is a therapist. I didn't need to ask what kind of therapist Ana was: I could hear the sound of bracelets and calming crystals as soon as she came towards me in the bar..! Their house is also inspired by alternative therapy. (I imagine Casa Solana on the Camino de Invierno as similar? But I have never been there, only heard about it.) So Ana works mainly with therapy, yoga, female empowerment and so on. But, as she told me as we were driving towards their pueblo Robledo de Amaña, she needed to pay the bills. That is why she had taken a job as a cook at the bar in Riello. Eventually she got Laura to start working there too, although Laura claimed: "I had never peeled a potato in my life!" My room in La Magia de las Nubes was refreshingly cool and equipped with everything I needed. Unfortunately I couldn't let the cute cats in since people could be allergic. In the middle of the countryside everything was quiet and I dozed off for a while... In the evening Laura made me a meal; in the morning I would have breakfast: 20 euros for it all. Finally I had people to talk to, after a pretty lonely Camino Viejo..! We talked about the different Caminos, then a bit about the upcoming elections. After a conversation on the phone with her mother, it turned out Laura and her mother knew people from a tiny village in my country - where my parents have lived... It's a small world. I contacted the hospitalera in Fasgar, which is just as small as Riello, and got instructions how to get access to the albergue next day. Thanks to La Magia de las Nubes I knew I would be well rested to take on another stage! [I]I'll be right back![/I] [/QUOTE]
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