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Sureste from Alicante to Santiago -- Alan´s 2014 camino
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[QUOTE="alansykes, post: 254289, member: 9811"] Arévalo to Medina del Campo is not a great day's walk. The last 8km (of ?34) are right beside the motorway, which was busy even on a Sunday. But Medina del Campo is a fine town, with an imposing castle and main plaza, and I was surprised to find the Reales Carnicerías open - built in 1562, it claims to be the oldest continuously operating market in the world. My Estonian friend Tanel, who I'd run into again in Ávila, and I went to evening mass in San Juan del la Cruz, by the albergue. It was packed with well-heeled elderly people - Tanel, at 43 was the youngest person there, and I, at 53, was probably about the 8th youngest. Given the reputation of the order, and the composition of the congregation, I was nervous about the sermon, but I needn't have been as it was a liberal take on the parable of the talents, saying it showed the inevitability of change, and the need to embrace it. St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Ávila met for the first time in Medina, and the albergue is attached to the shoeless carmelites. Slightly ironic that two such famous ascetics should have been ultimately responsible for what is a relatively luxurious albergue - individual rooms, a huge bath with copious hot water and a comfy sitting room, where Tanel, Andrés (the Valenciano pilgrim con perro I'd stayed with in San Bartolomé and Ávila) and I sat up chatting until gone midnight. Early on Monday morning in the plaza de Santiago, Tanel and I said goodbye as he headed west on the Levante and I went north on the Sureste. We may overlap again, I hope, once I get onto the Sanabrés. Half of the short way to Tordesillas is Rueda. Other than an incongruous slate roof baroque church, the main drag is 1km of continuous bodegas and bars. Although it was only 11am, I thought it would be fun to be able to boast that I'd drunk Rueda in Rueda, so I asked for a copita to go with a pincho, expecting a couple of mouthfuls. I think the barman must have poured about 1/3 of a bottle of verdejo into my glass. Delicious, but the next few km were probably rather slower than the previous ones. [/QUOTE]
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