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[QUOTE="jungleboy, post: 870906, member: 77691"] [B]Day 6: Santarém to Azinhaga (~21.5km with a shortcut!)[/B] We set out from Santarém at sunrise (just after 7am at this time of year) and it was lovely to walk through the historic core of the city at this time and see the day’s first rays of light shining on the Tejo river. [SPOILER="Tejo just after sunrise"][ATTACH type="full" alt="2F8C364C-35C0-4BAA-AE7B-E08852EC9946.jpeg"]82444[/ATTACH][/SPOILER] From Santarém to Vale de Figueira, the trail was mostly on dirt paths through vineyards, which was lovely. We also saw the biggest olive grove of this camino so far just before Vale de Figueira, giving us 2/3 of the ancient Mediterranean triad by 10am (I don’t think we’ve seen any wheat fields this whole camino yet). [SPOILER="Olive grove - Camino Mozárabe prep!"][ATTACH type="full" alt="C4FDD1EC-6547-47C5-BA4B-9728F36DC33C.jpeg"]82445[/ATTACH][/SPOILER] Between Vale de Figueira and Azinhaga, the trail is mostly dirt paths through cornfields and these were the hottest conditions of the camino so far. There is some way marking confusion here. It looks like the old markings took pilgrims via Reguengo de Alviela and Pombalinho, which is a big detour. New markings take a more direct route to Azinhaga but there is an even more direct route that you can take if it hasn’t been raining (prone to flooding, apparently) that takes about 3km off even that more direct route (and over 5km off the 26.9km quoted in the Village-to-Village guidebook!). See this map below and follow my green line for the shortest route through the corn fields (this involves going straight at one point rather than following arrows to the left). [SPOILER="Map - quick way to Azinhaga"][ATTACH type="full" alt="CA3C354C-880A-4AF0-A5B7-B5E85E8FBF86.jpeg"]82446[/ATTACH][/SPOILER] We reached Azinhaga just after 2pm and intended to continue to Golegã despite the heat but we met an Italian pilgrim who said he had called the two albergues and the inn in Golegã and all were full/closed. We called them too and found that the [B]Albergue das Ademas is closed[/B] while the other two did not answer. So we are staying at Casa da Azzancha in Azinhaga which is not cheap at €55 for a double and €40 for a single. In non-COVID times they charge €25 for a dorm (not worth it for a couple anyway) but they’re not doing that now. In any case, it reached 39 degrees Celsius by the time we got to Azinhaga so it’s nice not to be walking in that heat on what is supposed to be an unpleasant stretch of road walking to Golegã. Instead we get to enjoy that tomorrow morning! [/QUOTE]
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