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[QUOTE="David Tallan, post: 1148402, member: 31995"] Day 3: Manzanares el Real to Las Dehesas 27+ km with some detours and mistakes, plus some leftover bits of Day 1 I left off yesterday right when I had been told that a couple of other pilgrims were coming to share the cabin with me. They were two Polish guys who had walked from Madrid to Colmenar Viejo only to be unable to find a room there. So they had taken a bus here and will be taking the bus back in the morning. As I mentioned, the are the first pilgrims I've seen since I got my starting stamp in the church in Madrid, and the first English speakers since leaving the hostelin Madrid. They are trying to walk to Santiago (and maybe Finisterre/Muxia) within three weeks. That means they are pulling 35 km days. Not for me! First one of them, it's his first Camino, but he tells me he regularly walks 20+ mile days carrying heavy loads. Rosa brought in the cena (a light supper of a hearty soup and a salad with a small dessert) and after we ate that they came by for some conversation and advice for our caminos ahead. Consensus was that mine might be the longer Camino but there's would be the tougher one. Rosa would give me a ride back to the Camino at 9 in the morning on her way to work. A bit late of a start for me, but it was supposed to be an easy stage sobit wouldn't need as much time. I woke up early this morning, so I didn't get to benefit from a sleep in to accompany my late start. It wasn't the Polish guys' fault. They weren't noisy sleepers and I was the first one awake. I had a bit of a panic in the morning thinking I had list my hat but I found it just before 9. Rosa dropped me off at the ruins of the old castle, gave me some pointers for getting going on the Camino and headed off. I was on my way. Today was mostly walking west at the foot of (or in the foothills of) the mountains. It usually has really nice views of the mountains but it was raining most of the day again, so not much in the way if views. Occasionally some of the mountains would peek through. I kept trying to catch it with my camera. Today was also a day of dry stone fences around pasture or hunting grounds and rocky terrain and wildflowers. Lots of rushing streams, farm animals beside the path (at one point it went right through the middle of a cow pasture so there were no fences between the cows and me - just what my daughter would love), and storks on church steeples. Signage (yellow arrows and such) was generally quite good today but there were some significant discrepancies between the arrows and the GPS tracks I had which caused a lot of confusion and I think added about 4 km to the day. By the time I got to the albergue, I was exhausted. By the time I got to the previous town, I was exhausted so I didn't take time to see any of it. Yesterday, I walked a longer distance and still had energy for sightseeing (admittedly, I finished walking three hours later today, so I spent an hour longer walking 3 km less). I remember from previous Caminos that the third day can be a tough one. Hopefully tomorrow will be less slow and tiring. It does have the mountain crossing to look forward to. And the palace at La Granja, so I'd better save some energy for sightseeing. It is only supposed to be 22.5 km. Let's see if I can keep it to that. Photos below: - Pretty wildflowers by the side of the road - Some of the mountains peeking through - The rocky road we travel - Storks nest atop a church [ATTACH alt="20230608_101739.jpg"]148894[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230608_102445.jpg"]148895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230608_110027.jpg"]148896[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230608_133522.jpg"]148897[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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