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[QUOTE="peregrina2000, post: 339187, member: 537"] Day 5 -- Girona to Sant Feliu de Pallerols (42 km) GPS tracks [URL='http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/spatialArtifacts.do?event=setCurrentSpatialArtifact&id=10903637'][I][B]here[/B][/I][/URL] This stage was reported as 37 km, but my GPS came up with 42. It was long but a beautiful, absolutely beautiful walk. The walk between Girona and Vic (which I reach on Day 7) is mainly on an old rail bed called Carrilet (more info here: [URL]http://www.viesverdes.cat/ES/53/ruta-del-carrilet-i.html[/URL]) The Carrilet goes between Girona and Olot, and the Cami St. Jaume takes the route until the town of Sant Esteve d'en Bas, about 10 km before the end of the vie verde in Olot. Finding the Carrilet from the center of Girona is not hard. There are many signs pointing you towards it; there is a bike/walking path/park pretty much the whole way from town to the beginning of the Carrilet; and everyone in town knows about it. Cross the Ponte da Pedra and turn left, you will find it. At the beginning it goes through an area of individual garden plots -- half the population of Girona must be growing vegetables there! [ATTACH=full]20733[/ATTACH] The surface of the Carrilet is fabulous, kind of a crushed compacted fine gravel. Very soft on the feet. The other great thing about the path is that the grade is never too steep because train tracks have to be below a certain grade. I ascended 600 m today and never even felt it! Since the path is on an old RR track, the Cami either skirts the towns it passes (since the station would have been on the edge of town) or, if the town has grown a lot since the track was pulled up, you will find that there has been building over the tracks. But that is never for more than 100m or so. I decided to go into the town of Angles since it seemed to have a nice looking old quarter up on a hill. Nothing stunning, but I got a sello in the ayuntamiento and some cold water from their water cooler. It was getting hot, and I took a long walk at a rest stop at the place called El Pasteral. Water fountain, tables, shade, and even a defibrillator in case of emergency. I was very interested to see a Pou de Glaç (thanks to Alansykes for this, it means "ice well" and is a place where villages stored snow to use for cooling foods in the days before refrigeration. I had seen one on the Levante as well but didn't have my camera with me at the time. It's essentially a round tower without a top. [ATTACH=full]20734[/ATTACH] The path goes through a lot of lovely woods and nice fields, it is just wonderful walking. At the entrance to the town of Les Planes d'Hostoles (which the cami doesn't enter), there is a very friendly bar. It had started to rain about 20 minutes before I arrived and I was afraid the staff would not welcome a peregrina with a big dripping Altus poncho and wet shoes. They were fabulous. Even though I only had a Kas de Limón, they insisted I sit at a table, drape my poncho somewhere to dry, etc. Lots of people were eating, but I just never eat a full meal when I'm walking. Since I had another 6 km or so to Sant Feliu, I didn't get a chance to sample the food, but it was one of those very popular menú del día places with simple but good looking food. [ATTACH=full]20736[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]20740[/ATTACH] From the bar to Sant Feliu was especially lovely, lots of green tunnels and peaceful countryside. I was glad I had continued on to Sant Feliu rather than staying in Les Plaes or Amer, because it is a very pretty little town with a river running through it. Another little town where the church is flying the Catalán flag, typically an indicator of support of the independence movement. [ATTACH=full]20738[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]20739[/ATTACH] There is a nice place to stay in Sant Feliu, the Fonda Finet. This pensión has a central old town location, but I got sent a few blocks away to a little "annex" that's connected to their house. It's two or three stories, new construction, four or five rooms to a floor, so I don't know if they still use the old place in the old part of town. There is a restaurant there that seems to be still working. I did eat dinner there, but they brought it to the "annex" to serve, and I was happy to eat with another English speaking couple from South Africa. They were walking the Carrilet not the Camino, doing about 15 km a day and having a ball. The room was 20€ and the dinner around 8 or 9. The map of the route that I linked to above also has information about lodging. If you click on the little house icon on the left of the map, you'll see that there are several ways to break this stage up into two or three shorter days, in Bescano, Angles, Amer, and Les Planes d'Hostoles. It would be a very nice two or three day walk just in itself, Girona to Olot, about 60 kms. Buen camino, Laurie [/QUOTE]
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