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The last 2/3 stages before Salamanca had considerable flooding at stream crossings, on the official route. I got over the first few, but they became more difficult . But found better routes via Google maps and today road walked into Salamanca...
I am in Alcuescar tonight. There is approximately the same amount of pilgrims everyday on the road, a small dozen, staying either in albergues or hostals. They all are not the same people everyday.
So far, I have been suprised by the quality of...
Roughly, I've seen a bit more than 20 pilgrims this year, 8 of which were female but I might have miscounted as this is from memory. Ages fairly mixed.
But yeah, sample size is small, if I hadnt briefly met a mother walking with her two...
I'm in Puebla de Sanabria by now, some remarks about the camino since I last posted.
Carcaboso - Aldeanueva del Camino: very nice stage but the 10kms before finca venta quemada were quite hard because the camino was very wet when I was there. I...
I'm currently in Monasterio. Both municipal albergues are closed, staying at the hotel Moya. 40 euros.
The Almaden de la plata hostel was left open for pilgrims. We all just came in as and when. The kitchen has equipment, but there's no leftover...
Like most of these other posts, we stayed in Casar de Cáceres and then walked to Cañaveral. It's a wonderful, dramatic walk. The walk to Casar de Cáceres seemed weirdly short and left us with lots of time there. That was frustrating until we...
Casar de Cáceres: I stayed at the private one in the picture and it's more a hostal (private rooms or maybe sharing with one or two other pilgrims if you walk together) than an albergue, I'd say. Not bad though and casar was a more pleasant town...
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