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🇪🇸 Camino de LEVANTE (Valencia - Zamora)
Camino Mixto: Feb-Mar 2019 Levante
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[QUOTE="Donna Sch, post: 705456, member: 33191"] Day 1: We started about 9ish. Getting out of Valencia was easy thanks to all of the scallop discs courtesy of the local Friends of the Camino. Having said that we did manage to get off track in Alfafar and I suspect we missed a marker at the Palm gardens. Easily fixed once we got onto Wikiloc. Lots of industrial zone type walking and you could smell a lot of gunga being used despite rarely seeing anyone especially around Catarroja. The weather has been pretty warm. I started off wearing a smartwool baselayer tshirt with my thermal compression leggings with my thin windbreaker and a down vest. By the time we got to Silla at exactly 2 pm, it was hot enough for me to change into my light hiking skirt and get rid of the vest. Compared to the VDLP people are a little more reserved with only the very occasional Hola or Buen Camino. And I am one of these people that tends to say Buenas to anyone that makes eye contact. We did have a lovely lady stop and chat in Silla in the Plaza. After Silla you get farmland with lots of oranges, onions(?) and the blossom is just starting. Then came those wetlands (Albafera) and I assume ricefields. Lots of herons. Barrie is a professional wildlife observer so knows his Aussie birds so was pointing out the differences between our local herons and kites and the ones here. It was nice to get into this area and you see a few cyclists and runners between Silla and El Romani which is just before Almussafes. It was getting late and we got to that point of both wanting to stop for the day so we quickly booked a room at the Hotel Isabel in Almussafes as we were walking before the railway overbridge into El Romani. Of course then we realise we still had a couple of kilometres to go and I remembered how the last couple of km are always the hardest of the day. Cost of the room with breakfast was 63€ on booking.com and they charged us 50€. We ended up with a twin but the bathroom has a bath. Tried to contact my Aunt and ended up chatting with my Dutch cousin because my Movistar phonecard seems to be data only (Grrrr...) and I couldn't phone my aunt when I tried. The instructions are all in Spanish. My Lebara card last time was in English. She didn't have wifi so I was FB messaging my cuz in Holland who was phoning his Mum. Then to top it off the restaurant (Innusual) that sounded nice on Google no longer exists so I was trying to change things at the meeting point with no phone capacity, a phone that was about to die and me leaving messages all over FB and Messenger via Barrie's phone. So we never did catch up ;( . The late meal we had at a bar on the Hotel side of Carrer Ausiàs March was great though and boy did we need that bottle of wine by that time! According to my notes and I always use the higher estimate, today was a 23.3 km day. Google Fit tells me we did 21.5 km. Barrie's phone says at least 27+ km and 35K steps. Who knows! Today will be a shorter day as we are both feeling a bit sore. Getting to Xativa is going to be a 3 day effort rather than a 2 day one. [/QUOTE]
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