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🇪🇸 Ruta de la LANA (Valencia/Alicante - Burgos)
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[QUOTE="Bad Pilgrim, post: 762770, member: 50859"] Huerta de Rey - Covarrubias, Day 24 Today's stage started with a lot of tarmac. There are 14 kms to Peñacoba and the first ten or so of them are on the road. Luckily it is a road that runs through the woods so there are shadow and nature all around. But a road through the woods becomes so monotonous... I passed several depressing recreational areas, and after the largest of them I finally left the tarmac. Objectively it is a beautiful stretch through the woods and finally over a ridge. But I was tired and it took ages for me to get to Peñacoba. Where there is a fuente, but not much more. Luckily there are only 4 kms to Santo Domingo de Silos from there. Most pilgrims will stop at Santo Domingo de Silos, with its famous monastery. You can admire the medieval houses, you can marvel at the exquisite Plaza Mayor, you can hang out with the monks in the monastery when they are praying... There is an albergue here, though I have never stayed there. There are a few hotels and hostals in town. Right at the entrance, when you have come down from the hills past the ermita and put your very first step in the village, there is a restaurante/hostal on your right. If you are tired of walking, you can check in the second you enter the village...! (Although this place was closed today. Because it's Monday morning?) Anyway, I had already stayed in Santo Domingo once. I continued to Covarrubias 16 kms further on. To Covarrubias there are basically a few kms of flat as a pancake, then upwards to a ridge for a flat walk of several kms and then down to Retuerta. From Retuerta there are only 4 kms left to Covarrubias. That is... if you don't leave Retuerta on the right side of its church, which is WRONG, and end up doing 14 kms instead of 4. But who would be so stupid?! Someone who got lost two years ago perhaps... No further comments. Just remember that, even if the red and white GR-signs follow the Camino in this area, they are not arrows. If, or rather when, the two go separate ways or if waymarking is unclear, you must follow the arrows. It is easy to forget when you have seen these signs together for several days. You may end up doing a detour of 10 kms! No further comments!! Whatever you do, keep to the LEFT when you enter Retuerta. Cross the road further on and you're out on a country road again, that goes steep uphill for about 1 km. Then a slow descent to Covarrubias. Covarrubias is one of the best preserved medieval villages in Spain. It's stunning to stroll through the streets and the squares and admire the architecture... If there are not outbursts of rain and thunderstorms, like today. At least it's not too hot...! There is also this story about a Norwegian princess who married this Spanish guy who was a prince or something and she like ended up dead here. Yup. So they are proud to remember their Norwegian heritage. For example, the Norwegian flag is seen here and there. At the entrance to the village on the motorway there is a welcome sign in the Norwegian language together with the Spanish one. But you only see it if you get lost in Retuerta and have to walk at least 7 additional kms on the motorway... No further comments. I'm staying in the hostal Galín: 25 euros. And here ends my Camino de la Lana! Surprise. I'm still going to Burgos, but on the Camino de San Olav. I haven't really read as much about this Camino as I should have. But I heavily suspect it has got something to do with that norwegian princess who died here, cause the camino goes to her chapel 3 kms outside Covarrubias. Anyway, it's 60 kms all together so I'll try to do it in 2 stages. I don't know if I will write about it, since it's only 2 stages, but we'll see. In that case I move over to the San Olav department of this Forum. If you are planning on walking from Covarrubias to Burgos on the Lana, the Spanish guide from the Asociación is as good as always, as well as Kevin O'Brien's guide in English. Fellow pilgrim Undermanager has also written extensively about this last bit here on the Forum. Check it out! Thanks for bearing with me on this journey. I have really enjoyed the input and comments of all previous and future Laners! If/When I get to Burgos I might pop up here again, since Burgos is the end of the Lana as well as the San Olav. ¡Hasta luego! BP [/QUOTE]
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