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    Virtual walk on the Camino de Madrid - Detailed planning

    Things that interested me in Valladolid: Cervantes' House, the palace where Philip II was born, the Columbus museum (a modern interactive place - only in Spanish?), searching for the location of Columbus' last abode - from memory there's a marker in Plaza Mayor outside one of the fast food...
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    Camino de Madrid

    Rodaja, in El Licenciado Vidrieda, initially refuses to become a 'loro' (join the army) preferring to continue his studies but after he has recovered from his madness (believing he is made of glass) he does so - and dies in Flanders. I'm assuming Cervantes, who of course had been a soldier, is...
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    Camino de Madrid

    Have worked my way through the Gronze itinerary. Google (?) translation very useful - and sometimes rather amusing. Some 'schoolboy howlers' that made me chuckle. Place names: Three Songs (Tres Cantos), Snow (Nieva) and Crankshaft (Cigunuela). I also liked: queen stage (etapa reina) for the...
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    Camino de Madrid

    What a wonderful little anecdote and beautifully told. I'd like to have added a laughing emoji to your tale but have no idea how to do it. You'll have to settle for a 'like'.
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    Camino de Madrid

    OK I get it now. That's the route I was thinking of following. Thanks for clarification.
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    Camino de Madrid

    Buen Camino Keep those reports coming in. I'm following you.
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    Camino de Madrid

    Variety and the spice of life - agreed.
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    Camino de Madrid

    Great read, Larry, and some fine photos. I've noted the absence of pit-stops along some of the stretches. I like to travel light so not overly keen on carrying water and food (I stop at all the fuentes and a lot of bars!). Also interesting to read about the temperature variations. 'The...
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    Camino de Madrid

    Noted. Sorry but couldn't figure out the route/map at all ;-(
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    Camino de Madrid

    Both great cities, I agree.
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    Camino de Madrid

    I've stayed in Segovia before, even if it was 30 plus years ago, so that is probably where I'm going to have to save a day. Tordesillas is one of my many favourite places in Spain and I'd like to walk along the Duero for a bit. That side trip is non-negotiable for me. Noted. Also noted. Thanks
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    Camino de Madrid

    I've had a quick look at Gronze and it appears to be just what I'm after - elementary and clear and I can understand the Spanish, more or less.
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    Camino de Madrid

    Hello David - I know you did, you are one of my sources ;-) Been looking at their guide. Description of the route runs out at Puente Duero but good information up to that point. I will, hopefully overnight at Ray y Rosa, so should be able to get some gaps filled. Too bad about the albergue in...
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    Camino de Madrid

    Buen Camino and enjoy. I'm pretty certain you will. It's a good 'un.
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    Camino de Madrid

    Thanks Tim. Looks like you have just added 10kms to my itinerary ;-)
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    The Cockleshell Pilgrim, A Medieval Journey to Compostela

    This book by Katherine Lack landed on my doormat last week. I ordered it having found her Frontstalag 142, The Internment Diary of an English Lady fascinating, not least because my grandmother and aunt must have been interned with Fanny Twemlow both in the Vauban fort at Besancon and in Vittel...
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    Camino de Madrid

    Hello I am in the planning phase of the Camino de Madrid. Hoping to start walking in late May. The Confraternity of James' guidebook in out of print and no longer available, so I have been basing my research on the Virtual Camino de Madrid thread on this Forum (extremely helpful) and picking up...
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    GR221 (Ruta De Pedra En Sec / The Dry Stone Route) - Mallorca

    Have just finished reading George Sand's A Winter In Majorca (sic), which I picked up in Valldemossa. Not exactly a flattering picture of the Mallorquin and their culture. Sand never once mentions Chopin by name (his request?), only referring to an invalid travel companion. Written a couple...
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    GR221 (Ruta De Pedra En Sec / The Dry Stone Route) - Mallorca

    Enjoy the walk. I am sure you will. Keep us posted.
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    GR221 (Ruta De Pedra En Sec / The Dry Stone Route) - Mallorca

    Yes it definitively is. I gleaned the following information re. the Camino (Cami de Lluc). Kilometre Zero is right in front of the Santuari. It is 1360kms to Santiago de Compostela (circa 60kms to Palma). Not sure if that is walking distance or includes the distance across the sea to the...

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