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🇪🇸 Camino del SURESTE (Alicante - Benavente)
Camino Sureste, Lana and Levante
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[QUOTE="Trevhock, post: 198551, member: 10508"] Just finished the Levante at Zamora, no time to complete camino Sanabres, the forecast is bad weather, so happy not to tarnish my memory of when I did it on VDLP, that was a magnificent walk. It is a pity my memory won't be so memorable of the Levante, but then you have to take rough with smooth and maybe I should have planned it better( I did buy the guide to Sureste which was very similar in format to the Levante guide but only available in Spanish and also quite heavy so left it at home) also walking solo,it's easier to miss things, like fading yellow arrows. That is my major bug bear with this camino for me the lack of clear, consistent markings. The Levante GR-239 in my experience was inconsistent in its markings sometimes it was very clear not just with red and white stripes but also with signposts. Giving distances etc, but it felt only where the local authority were willing to do that. After The Minaya experience and straying on yo the Sureste I used my smartphone a lot to check, I've seen a lot of yellow arrows which have become white, either jfaded white or painted over, on two occasions pointing the opposite way, after Avila you get a red arrow like the Portuguese with the Fatima blue but it stops after a stage, frequently no arrows where you would expect them. When you're by yourself you need that reassurance, they symbolise a camino.BUT, from the Toros de Guisando after San Martin de Valdeiglesias the camino not only changes into something beautiful and hilly it also becomes very well marked and you can rely on the arrows all the way to Toro, you will also find that the misleading arrows that Peregina2000 mentions before Cebreros have now been altered to point down the track, so no problem there. Just before Zamora there's a village called Vilaralbo, if look at the map in the guide book the yellow marked camino joins the red marked CL-605 and the green marked ZA-610, I felt disaster, I chickened out and found the GR-14 camino del Duerno on my phone which was running to my right that takes you very quietly into Zamora. Very appropriate to finish the GR-239 on a very well marked GR-14. I used the PDF stage guide from Peregrina2000and found it very useful for accommodation etc just a few updates.I wouldn't stay at Milan1again in San Clemente( but I don't think she did) or eat there.In Cebreros the hotel Castrejon, said they were full, when they clearly weren't, a much friendlier welcome at Hotel Dracos where for 30 euros I had a fantastic room with a sunny balcony with unhindered panoramic views of the mountains. La Casa del Abuelo Blas was closed when I arrived but the metal gates opened later, that might have been a good option. Also at Arevalo, Hostal del Campo had increased their price to 30 euros and menu to 12E and wasn't worth it. Good memories of refugios at La Roda the bullring, Torrijos,Avila, Gotarrendura, where there's only 150 people and the bar opens especially to cook you a meal, the Carmelites at Medina del Campo and the albergue in the ayuntamiento at the village of Siete Iglesias, where the tiny shop has everything. There have been many good things. I've been lucky with the weather, just a few spots of rain near Alicante and the last day I had patchy rain. Since Avila it has been very cold and looking back from Medina I saw the mountains just crossed, covered in snow but in Toledo it was a sunny 29C. Fantastic castles, Almansa, Chinchilla, Almonacid and the amazing Medina Del Campo. Toledo is yet another fantastic Spanish city, a mixture of religious beliefs, history and cultures expressed In its architecture. Many old, beautiful plazas such as Temblique, Arevalo and Medina Del Campo to name just a few. And so many interesting churches glowing in history and a few with curious interiors. I found the camino very flat and sometimes monotonous, I'm used to walking hills, so found remaining in fifth gear boring. Good memories of farmers diligently pruning and tending their vines in the middle of nowhere and ploughing what seems to be very stony or sandy ground. As a matter of interest, at the albergue in Avila ( Levante & Sureste) I was 17th pilgrim at Siete Iglesias(Levante only) I was the 3rd this year. Also it occurs to me that the Sureste is better marked than Levante hence the straying. Talking of which, I'm posting on the Sureste part of the forum when it probably should be the Levante, so there's confusion all over the place. I am not a reliable contributor to your forum, but if you think I can be of help please private message me so I can respond, and if anything else springs to mind I'll post it . [/QUOTE]
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