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🇪🇸 Camino de MADRID (Madrid - Sahagún)
My Camino de Madrid - Sahagún. June-July 2016.
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[QUOTE="Bad Pilgrim, post: 431129, member: 50859"] [B]STAGE THREE: CERCEDILLA - SEGOVIA. 27 of June. 31 KMS[/B] Right from the start it's uphill for about 8 kms. The first kms are on asphalt, then the camino goes through the woods on rocky paths. Felt and looked like uphill to Alberguería on the Camino Sanabrés, but muuuch longer. Other walking trails are merging with the camino so [I]only [/I]follow the yellow arrows (not yellow dots, nor any other colour). I could say a lot about how beautiful the scenery is... and that I couldn't enjoy it, because I was chased by a swarm of flies all the way from Cercedilla to the top at Fuenfría. I don't stop and meditate about the beauty of the surroundings in these conditions. I had to keep moving. Sure, flies don't chew you up like mosquitos, but they are irritating enough and I just wanted to outrun them. I remember at least two fuentes on the way up to Fuenfría, but as it's 8 kms uphill you should also bring your own water. And food. There is nothing, except water, until Segovia. (There's a detour to a village called Valsaín but I don't know anything about it.) A large part of the first 8 kms is on the calzada romana. At one point a few kms from the top, there is a split, where the path veers heavily to the left, almost 180 degrees. One is the calzada romana, one is the calzada borbónica. I didn't know where to go. A yellow arrow points kind of in between the two alternatives. Thanks very much. I had to fish out the Max Long guide but that didn't help either. Well, Max Long says both the Borbónica and the Romana gets you to Fuenfría but I would like to know which one is the shortest/easiest since the uphill path was killing me. I took the Romana, wich is the left one if you are standing in front of the split. The right one is the calzada Borbónica, according to an information panel at the spot. Now this Romana alternative was devoid of arrows and really hard for the last 100 meters, which consisted more of climbing than walking. But it emerged right at the top of Fuenfría, which is the highest point of the day, and of the entire Madrid route. A week later, another peregrino would assure me that I had done the right choice and that the Romana is the "easier" one, but I'm not sure he understood what part of the stretch I was talking about. I somehow suspect that the Borbónica might be easier. I was sad to see that there was no fuente right at the top, because I was really thirsty after the torture of the first 8 kms. I just thought some nice person would have installed one there, along with a mosquito net. There were other monuments and panels and stuff but no water. But after just a few hundred meters I ran into a fuente, a big one with cold water right from the mountains. I could kneel and sink my whole head down in it! From here there would be a sprinkle of similar fuentes. I finally stopped counting them because there were so many. I would say there are no more than a few kms between them. Max Long says there's at least [I]one[/I] fuente after the top at Fuenfría - what??? I wonder when people wrote that guide, must have been the Middle Ages. Then a walk through the woods for several kms. Very nice. There are information panels along the way about what mountain is within reach or about how people used to live here in ancient times. Downhill to a meadow which must be really muddy in rain. The last fuente is when leaving the meadow and its horses behind. Then a real slog into Segovia and its suburbs. It was hot and, although this was my shortest day so far, I went slower... and slower... and I was exhausted when entering the city. I went for the first bar I saw to calm down and to prepare where to stay for the night. I knew someting about an albergue outside Segovia, but I needed yet another hostel after these hardships. I found Hostal Segovia on a small street just a few meters away from the Acueducto. 35 euros, so much more expensive than the albergue, but I couldn't resist. There was AC in the room, aaaaaah! Finally! So the rest of the day: sight-seeing in Segovia, the Acueducto and yadda-yadda. Can't tell everything here or you will get (even more) bored with me. Segovia has a lot of history and monuments so many pilgrims even take rest days here. But I wanted to keep on moving... To be continued BP [/QUOTE]
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