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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Simancas - Penaflor de Hornija (21 kms) Back to some great walking today through open fields full of colour. Being Saturday, I was apprehensive about numbers on the Camino but in truth I saw only a handful of mountain bikers and a couple of old boys out collecting 'caracoles'. It was peaceful...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Bit of catching up to do. Alcazaren - Simancas (30 kms) Pretty average stage. Pine and sand early on, pine and carretera at the end. The middle stretch was much more 'sympatico' with a couple of river crossings. There's a nice spot to chill as you cross the Eresma (?) by way of an old Roman...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    I met her too, also with rollers in her hair, but by then the Dutch couple had already come to my rescue.
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    A couple of stages ago I met a small group who were using an App (possibly Buen Camino) - they had been taken way off-piste and done a ‘few’ extra kilometres over some rough terrain that they weren’t particularly amused about. They had ignored the yellow arrows to follow their tech-guru. I...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Yes indeed. Good quality and copious amounts. I really liked this bar, the oldies playing cards, the hard working senora running it and it was the first Hogar del Jubilado that I could enter as a genuine 'jubilado'!
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    I stand corrected. As it happens the following info was in the albergue at Alcazaren: El Rincon Naïf, Calle Segovia 12, tel: 921 595 435. Slightly more expensive than Hostal Avanto but much more convenient location.
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    I saw Theodosius’ bust in the square just behind the gate in the muralla. I made a mental note to check him out when I have a bit more time. One of only three Roman emperors born in Spain?
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    You made me laugh. There is indeed an irony that to use the old ways you need to understand the new ways. Unfortunately this old dog just cannot learn new tricks. My brain shuts down at the first mention of mobile technology. No GPS here - just following the Yellow Marked Road. (I have done a...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    I get it - nobody should be hanging around waiting for walkers who may or may not turn up.
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Coca - Alcazeren (25 kms) Another fine day. The view back over Coca as you leave town is splendid even if you cannot see the castillo. It is a particularly nice stretch to Villeguillo above the river (Voltoya? Eresmo?). From Villeguillo to Alcazeren it's all pine forest so views are at a...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Two days to catch up on. Both very pleasant and easy stages. Santa Maria Real De Nieva - Coca (25 kms) Had a quick look at the cloister in SMRDN, the main door was open, but not the rest of the monastery, which was still closed. Interesting stone-clad bull ring as you leave SMRDN, according...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    If we are talking about the same thing, all difficulty has now been eradicated. No rails, no ballast - just a nice smooth surface with a very gentle gradient. 2 or 3 kms?
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    ...it probably shaves off a couple of kilometres bringing the distance down to nearer 30 kms. If, unlike me, you can find the shortcut to Hostal Avanto* (your only accommodation option in SMLRDN) you can save yourself a further 2 kms. By staying in Zamarramala (there's an albergue) you can...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    I spent two nights in Segovia probably doing what just about everybody else there does - the cathedral, the Alcazar, the Juderia, trying to count the numerous Romanesque churches and gorging myself on the local cuisine. Look away vegans and vegetarians: Judiones de la Granja con matanza...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    And so back to the walking. After a morning in La Granja de San Ildefonso and a quick march through the palace, getting a sore neck, I set off for Segovia determined to avoid the carretera I had arrived on. I'd inadvertently bypassed Valsain yesterday so headed up that way to see the ruins of...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    La Granja de San Ildefonso - Segovia (20 kms?) Why anyone would even think of not taking the detour to La Granja de San Ildefonso from the Camino de Madrid I cannot imagine but I must here declare my interests. El Real Sitio de San Ildefonso is often referred to as Versailles in miniature and...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    My experience of Youth Hostels in Spain is mixed. Some of the more remote ones only seen to open for groups or will take you if they already have a group. I guess it's all about phoning ahead. Both those hostels looked pretty isolated but very impressive from the outside. Where possible I...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Cercedilla - La Granja de Ildefonso (26 kms plus!) Again the waymarking couldn't be faulted - until the turn off for La Granja, which of course isn't on the Camino at all. I was keeping an eye out for La Cruz de la Gallega where the two routes separate but must have missed it. I ended up...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Ola Pegrenina. Hope you had a great walk. Another Camino? Tres Olivos is the metro station after Fuencarral and Montecarmelo the one after Tres Olivos. Montecarmelo is the nearest one to Fuencarral cemetery (the very outskirts of Madrid) but to get to Montecarmelo you need to change trains at...
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    LIVE from the Camino On the Camino de Madrid!

    Colmenar Viejo - Cercedilla (33 kms?) Today's walk was an excellent one with wonderful vistas and few distractions (no motorway, no railway line, and only a handful of mountain bikers). It's an easy enough 12 or so kms to Manzanares El Real - and what an approach: castillo and lake behind the...

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