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[QUOTE="Bachibouzouk, post: 791123, member: 53864"] Fuentes to Cuenca (Day Eight) Just as you leave Fuentes, on your left amongst the trees you may spot the titanosaurus if you are lucky. It's quite shy but it's a magnificent specimen. I gather many bones of the cretaceous age have been found in this part of Spain. Two or three kilometres further on are the Laguna Negra and the Laguna de los Cedazos. Both paradoxically, and rather mysteriously, have refilled themselves from bone dry in the 1990s. I spotted a heron at the former fishing for some frogs, newts or lizards. I doubt there'd be any fish in there, it smelt a little sulphurous (rotten eggs). Another really pleasant stage to walk. Initially along a wide valley (could this be that other Corridor that leads from the coast to Madrid?) with agricultural fields on either side of the Camino and far enough away from the road for the latter to be only a murmur. Then through oak and pine forests. I'm not a big fan of too much forest. Ipso facto there are no vistas and to this sun junkie the dappled forest sunlight is like 'the pills that mother gives you' (go ask Alice). The forest was short and sweet. On the subject of music. Most mornings, as this is the Ruta de la Lana and when I've had wifi, I've been playing the Incredible String Band's El Wool Suite as I pack up my belongings. A wonderful start to the day and for my money a better wake up than any orujo. There were a couple of villages on the way but nothing much in Mohorte so I sat on a bench and ate some of the fruit (pear, plums, greengages and tangerines) that the itinerant fruit and veg man in Fuentes, presumably taking some sort of pity on me, had tried to give me. Seeing as he needed dental care far more than I did, we settled on one euro for 'un botellin'. And very tasty the fruit was too. The second village (Melgosa) did have a bar/restaurant and it was open. I mention this, not because I was lured in, I wasn't, but because all other blogs say it's closed 'por descanso'. I can vouch that the owner does work at least one day a year. I think he's got his priorities right. And then bang. The ultra modern suburbs of Cuenca. What a surprise. Whatever I'd expected it wasn't that. After a bit of a wild goose chase around the suburbs following the yellow arrows I made it to the albergue. And what a place it is. Clean and comfortable and an hospitalero (thank you Andrès) who even interrupted his lunch break to sign me in. I've never seen so many Camino posters and maps, so much info. Looking at one map, I see it is possible to join the Ruta de la Lana from Javea, Valencia (Requena), Gallur as well as Alicante. The albergue registry is a thing of beauty. Every pilgrim neatly inscribed followed by a wax crayon flag of their country of origin. It is a piece of art. Maybe in a few hundred years it will be in a museum much as some codices are nowadays. Of course I was curious (nosy) enough to look up some of the peregrinos on this forum who have passed through here recently. I couldn't find Bad Pilgrim but checking his thread I saw that he had stayed in a Pension rather than the albergue. Magwood was here on the 18th April. Fear not Maggie I will not reveal your age. But I can confirm that your copper-plate hand-written note to Louis (Luis?) was received and has been pasted into the visitors' book. What can I say about Cuenca that hasn't already been said before? For me it is up there with Toledo. Many years ago when I was a student, someone in Madrid, probably in a bar, told me you had to see Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca, Alcala de Henares, Avila, Aranjuez, El Escorial and Cuenca before you died. I don't want to jack it in just yet but as of today I've seen them all, and I think I might, just, put Cuenca foremost amongst them all. The old town and it's location is simply stunning and without any pretention. Peregrina 2000, if Alcala de Jucar is the Little Canyon then Cuenca is the Grand Canyon of Spain. Cuenca is my jump off point on this Camino. I'll resume here next September as far as Burgos. But as they say on daytime TV: 'A word from our sponsors. Don't switch over. We'll be back. In the last part of the programme we look at Esquivias and the Casa Cervantes.' It's a dirty word but we all have a budget and some prices have changed. * Convento de las Esclavas de Maria in Almansa remains at 7.00 euros * El Cazador in Alpera is, as Brucie might have said, higher at 25.00 euros * the Albergue in Alatoz remains donativo * in Alcala de Jucar I stayed in Hostal Jucar, which cost me 34.00 euros but included a very decent breakfast * Hostal Los Tubos in Villarta, the audience shouts out, is higher at 20.00 euros * the albergue/polideportivo in Altobuey de Campillos remains free * El Rincon de Sandra in Monteaguado de las Salinas is lower, lower at 20.00 euros * the albergue in Fuentes remains free * the albergue in Cuenca is donativo Every single one was excellent value. Alfín del Asfalto [/QUOTE]
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