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[QUOTE="David Tallan, post: 1151110, member: 31995"] Day 12: Valladolid to Ciguñuela 20 km Today was a full 30 km walking day but it feels more like a rest day because I got here around 11 and find myself with nothing to do but rest all afternoon and evening. I left the Air B&B nice and early at 6 am because I had got everything ready the night before. It was still pretty dark when I hit the city streets. There were few people up and about, mostly couples and small groups dressed to go out, people who I assume hadn't made it home yet from the night before. There were very few cars. As I was walking through the city it gradually got lighter. I asked my mapping application, Organic Maps (the successor to Maps.me) to plot me a route to Simancas and it gave me a different route than the Camino de Madrid GPS tracks, along the north side of the river, rather than proceeding well south of the river. It looked a bit more direct, so I thought I'd give it a try. The 3 or 4 km or so of the walk was through city streets, then about 6 km was by the river, much of it through parks, then for the last 3 or 4 km it was though fields and/or beside a highway. Simancas was a bit of a disappointment. It was a nice enough looking town, with a nice church and castle. But absolutely nothing was open. Not the church. Not the castle. Not even a bar or cafe. I had a little rest and drink, refilled my water bottle, and headed out to Ciguñuela. The route to Ciguñuela was pretty enough through rolling fields. Along the Way there were a number of metal pilgrim silhouettes, reminding you that you are on the Camino. About half way, there was a nice little bench by one of these, along with a pilgrim marker where I had a little rest and another drink. I got to Ciguñuela at about 11. I stopped in the first bar I saw for some breakfast. I ordered a large cafe con leche and one of what looked like a large churro. My mistake. It was actually a large pork fat thing, which came cut up into small pieces with bread. I ate it. I left with an ice cream bar which seemed like a good idea on a hot, sunny day. I headed to the church, which was closed, and then to the albergue, which looked really cool but had no instructions on the door about how to get inside. I figured I'd sit in front of it until lunchtime. If no one helped, I'd go back to the bar where I'd heard the keys might be and ask there. It wasn't long before a young man in a car pulled up and told me to go down to #20 on the street I was on and get the keys there. Unfortunately, the lady at #20 said she didn't have them and pointed me to #24, where there would be a gentleman with them. I was on my way to follow those instructions when a nice older man intervened. He said I could get the keys from #24 but it would be easier to get them from the bar and offered to walk me there. The fellow in the bar seemed a bit surprised I wasn't heading on to Peñaflor de Hornija. I think he thought me a bit of a wimp for stopping so early in the day, but gave me they keys and a stamp for €6. I headed back here to the albergue, stopping only at the local shop to pick up some bread and fruit in case foid is as unavailable en route tomorrow (Sunday) as it was today. At the albergue, I got myself cleaned and sorted and rested a bit. Now I am off to lunch in the bar and will finish and post this after lunch. Sitting in the bar. Finished a nice lunch but now it is raining so I will perhaps wait for that to stop before heading back to the albergue. In the meantime, I will post this. Photos below: - Walking out of Valladolid - The castle in Simancas - Rest stop on the Camino - A Camino sign - Not churros - The door of the albergue [ATTACH alt="20230617_071448.jpg"]149446[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230617_092655.jpg"]149447[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230617_102920.jpg"]149448[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230617_105335.jpg"]149449[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230617_112059.jpg"]149450[/ATTACH] [ATTACH alt="20230617_114047.jpg"]149451[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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