Camino Meseta.

[MickMac]

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Video.

 

[nycwalking]

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Video.

Mickmac,

I love the meseta.

I could walk it back and forth for some time.

Thanks for posting this wonderful video.

 

[jfgough]

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Video.

The meseta was a beautiful place. I walked the meseta in September, so I was spared the intense heat. Other than some long stretches between my Kaz and croissant breaks, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[Dani7]

I loved it. What I will do differently from this spring camino for next one is not do the green route from Calzada del Coto to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos and then to Reliegos. I'll follow the highway. I found the landscape not that pleasing and the old roman roads were very hard on the feet. I don't regret doing it...just will not do it a second time. This picture is one of my favorites and although seen many times from other pilgrim pics...It talks to me

 

[Anniesantiago]

It can be beautiful but it also can be brutal.
With nothing to break them, the winds can tear you to pieces.
Just depends on the time of year and the weather.

 

[jpwu]

I never understood why so many pilgrims skipped these beautiful pieces.

 

[MickMac]

I loved it. What I will do differently from this spring camino for next one is not do the green route from Calzada del Coto to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos and then to Reliegos. I'll follow the highway. I found the landscape not that pleasing and the old roman roads were very hard on the feet. I don't regret doing it...just will not do it a second time. This picture is one of my favorites and although seen many times from other pilgrim pics...It talks to me
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The walk to Calzadilla was sickening and no sign of the Roman road just endless monotonous landscape in a desert of heat, it was the only time if someone had offered a lift I would have accepted.
There was something strange about the village I never quite worked out, a feeling something lingers from the past.
Cannot explain just not quite part of any Camino.

 

[Dani7]

The walk to Calzadilla was sickening and no sign of the Roman road just endless monotonous landscape in a desert of heat, it was the only time if someone had offered a lift I would have accepted.
There was something strange about the village I never quite worked out, a feeling something lingers from the past.
Cannot explain just not quite part of any Camino.

It felt sad to me...

 

[Robo]

I never understood why so many pilgrims skipped these beautiful pieces.

One of the reasons I walked the VdlP last time, was that I thought much of it might be like the Meseta.

It was.

It was glorious

I guess it comes down to what we seek on a Camino.
There is a very broad 'spectrum' of expectations.

A. On the one hand, a walking holiday, with lots of socialising, great facilities, interesting sights to see........

At the other end of the spectrum perhaps.......passing over many other experiences to be found.......

Z. A lonely desolate yet beautiful landscape that provides no distractions for us to get lost in our thoughts and reflections.

And of course all the permutations in between.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Thankfully the Camino can probably fulfil all the options along the spectrum, due to the number of routes, times of year and so on.

I have learned to love being closer to Z. With a few days of A thrown into the mix

But maybe the reality is, that the Camino is like a box of chocolates (heard that somewhere before)

We choose the box (route), but sometimes it's the more unusual flavours that we didn't expect or expect to like, that are he best

 

[Robo]

The walk to Calzadilla was sickening and no sign of the Roman road just endless monotonous landscape in a desert of heat, it was the only time if someone had offered a lift I would have accepted.
There was something strange about the village I never quite worked out, a feeling something lingers from the past.
Cannot explain just not quite part of any Camino.

Have they changed the route?
Weren't you walking ON the Roman Road?
My screen saver pic.........
As far as I know, that is the Roman Road. It was darned straight anyway.

Parts of the old Roman Road were more obvious walking into Hornillos I recall.





From Brierley.

Calzada Romana Via Aquitana. We now join a stretch of the original Roman road still intact after 2,000 years of use - save for a new gravel covering! What is more remarkable is the fact that this section goes through an area of bogland devoid of any stone for its construction. It is estimated that 100,000 tons of rock was needed just for the substrata to raise the surface above the winter flood levels and every ton had to be transported from elsewhere.

 

[MickMac]

Have they changed the route?
Weren't you walking ON the Roman Road?
My screen saver pic.........
As far as I know, that is the Roman Road. It was darned straight anyway.

Parts of the old Roman Road were more obvious walking into Hornillos I recall.


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From Brierley.

Calzada Romana Via Aquitana. We now join a stretch of the original Roman road still intact after 2,000 years of use - save for a new gravel covering! What is more remarkable is the fact that this section goes through an area of bogland devoid of any stone for its construction. It is estimated that 100,000 tons of rock was needed just for the substrata to raise the surface above the winter flood levels and every ton had to be transported from elsewhere.

Don't think that is the actual Roman Road it's to your right of the pic and fenced off with low fence.
Maybe wrong, "but no one is perfect", the idea of covering the Roman road is for protection, a strange one unless it was sustaining damage.

 

[David Tallan]

Don't think that is the actual Roman Road it's to your right of the pic and fenced off with low fence.
Maybe wrong, "but no one is perfect", the idea of covering the Roman road is for protection, a strange one unless it was sustaining damage.

I think in Roman times the Roman roads were covered like this. The stony roads we consider "Roman roads" on the Caminos are just ones where the original top layers have washed away over time leaving the substrata. If the Roman legions had really walked long distances on those stones to their battles I can't imagine them arriving in any condition to fight. Any time I see in a stage description that a Roman road is in the offing I know my feet are in for a beating.

Covering a Roman road like this is just what the Romans did.

Of course, I could be wrong, too.