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[QUOTE="David Tallan, post: 1149983, member: 31995"] Day 8: Santa Maria la Real de Nieva 28.5 km not including a return trip to the castle (after the trip to the castle and all of the wanderings looking for the keys, 31.73 km) I'm sitting on the porch outside the albergue, waiting for someone with the key. There is a pilgrim from Madrid sitting here, too. I've been waiting for about an hour and a quarter now. We are waiting for the keys. I was sitting there. I'm now sitting at the entrance to the castle, waiting to enter. We still haven't got the keys to the albergue. There are three or four places they are supposed to be but only one is open and they don't have them. They sent me looking for them in the mailbox, but the mailbox is inside. We have been sent around everywhere. We are hoping to see the castle while we wait for things to sort out. I'm letting her do most of the talking because she is from Madrid, and so speaks much better Spanish than me. Now I'm lying down in the albergue. It took about 3-4 hours for the keys to emerge. I was being stoic about it, but my fellow peregrina was very impatient. I did visit the castle while we were waiting so all the wait really meant for me was that I was delayed in doing laundry. I trust it will dry in time. But back to the beginning of the day, in Hostal Avanto, about 2 km before Santa Maria. I left at about 7 to start my day's walk. The walk out if Santa Maria took me past its mid-19thC bullring. The day started with flat plains and I thought it would continue that way but I was wrong. There was a lot of pine forest. In fact, I would say that pine forest probably made up the majority of the day. When I first entered the forest I went past the grandfather of Spanish pine trees in this region, Pino Morgas, over 350 years old. What I found most unusual about this tree is the way it widened at the top instead of narrowing, not something I am used to in pine trees. Many of these trees were being harvested for resin and, at one point, I came across the workers who were doing the harvesting, putting in the buckets and slicing the parallel lines above. Also fun during the day were some animal encounters. Once again I came across some storks hunting on the ground. And at one point there was a flock of sheep completely filling the path. I made sure to get a video while I walked through the flock, which I know my daughter will love. At first it seemed they were going to follow me but they quickly lost interest. In the middle of the day, the route leads through the town of Nava de la Asunción. I stopped there for a breakfast of cafe con leche and a small piece of tortilla. She asked if I wanted a breakfast coffee or a regular. Since this was breakfast, I said breakfast. It was huge! Afterwards, I stopped at the Hyper Bazar and picked up another pocket knife and pen. And then there was a supermarket on the way out of town and I had completely used up my food stocks so I thought it prudent to go in and refresh them. So I ended up spending a lot more time there than I thought I would but it was worth it to get some things I had been needing. One thing I didn't do there was see the 18thC church. I had assumed that the Camino would take me by it and by the time I realized it hadn't I was loathe to retrace my steps. The yellow arrows I followed into Coca took a roundabout route, rather than the more direct path that the GPS tracks showed, but they took me closer to the albergue. On the albergue doors, a number of places were listed where the key could be had. I went to Bar Restaurante Las Muralles, where others reported having got the keys. And they seemed ready to give them to me. I thought I would have lunch first but it was 1:15 and lunch wasn't served until 2. So I wandered over to the gothic mudejar (mudejar is Moorish architects working in Christian Spain) castle. I could view the exterior but the interior wouldn't open until 4:30. So I headed back to Las Muralles, had my lunch, paid and registered for the albergue keys, and then they realized they didn't have them. They sent me yo the albergue where they assured me that the keys would be in the mailbox which I could open. Unfortunately, the mailbox is in the locked albergue. I called the albergue phone number and was assured that someone would be along with the keys. Which is more or less where I started this. Now, as I said, I am lying down in the albergue, having wandered all over town and visited the castle in the meantime. Photos below: - Bullring of Santa María la Real de Nieva - Pino Morgas - Cute km marker (I'm taking a longer route) - Big sky - Memorial to Renée Goscinny and Albert Uderzo whose Asterix in Huspania immortalised the city if Coca (Cauca in Roman times) - Coca Castle [ATTACH alt="20230613_072346.jpg"]149164[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]149165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]149167[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]149168[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]149169[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]149170[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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