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Seriously consider the bus to Santiponce to ease Day 1.made sure to post all the bus options as I need to jump a few sections to catch my bus in Salamanca to Ponferrada.
I will be saving your website blog in my favorites, too, and look forward to following your journey! Buen Camino, C!I walked from Seville to Guillena yesterday. I found it to be tiring, possibly due to several nights with poor sleep and a 9 hour time change. People can consider staying in a hotel in Santiponce if they want to start slower. The route by Camas was a bit confusing, but you know you just need to go north (no sun in your face, which is nice). I managed to walk 26.6 km on a 22 km route!
I find that writing a blog is more than enough to keep my online time full, so you might want to follow it (www.tritetales.com ) as I don't know how much I'll update this thread. Those won't be guide book reports - the time for planning and preparation is over, so I'll try to describe the experience.
Have a great Camino C . Iwill be following you on 26th April . Stay safe ,walk well and enjoy enjoy, PaddyI walked from Seville to Guillena yesterday. I found it to be tiring, possibly due to several nights with poor sleep and a 9 hour time change. People can consider staying in a hotel in Santiponce if they want to start slower. The route by Camas was a bit confusing, but you know you just need to go north (no sun in your face, which is nice). I managed to walk 26.6 km on a 22 km route!
I find that writing a blog is more than enough to keep my online time full, so you might want to follow it (www.tritetales.com ) as I don't know how much I'll update this thread. Those won't be guide book reports - the time for planning and preparation is over, so I'll try to describe the experience.
I walked from Seville to Guillena yesterday. I found it to be tiring, possibly due to several nights with poor sleep and a 9 hour time change. People can consider staying in a hotel in Santiponce if they want to start slower. The route by Camas was a bit confusing, but you know you just need to go north (no sun in your face, which is nice). I managed to walk 26.6 km on a 22 km route!
I find that writing a blog is more than enough to keep my online time full, so you might want to follow it (www.tritetales.com ) as I don't know how much I'll update this thread. Those won't be guide book reports - the time for planning and preparation is over, so I'll try to describe the experience.
Let me know avout the taxi to the park as that is my plan.Seriously consider the bus to Santiponce to ease Day 1.
Day 2 is no piece of cake either! I will start tomorrow (Day 3) with a taxi the 17 km to the start of the park. I am exhausted and know that highway walk would not enhance my life! (However, one good night of sleep could do wonders.)
I am a little surprised too. I flew from Vancouver to Madrid in one day - 9 time zones - and then started walking the next day, without getting a good night's sleep. Temperature has been mid to high 20s and these stretches are quite exposed.What is making these days so difficult? I'm surprised.
Montreal to Spain is long enough for me. I can understand why adding the BC distance would take a hit on you. He kind to yourself.I am a little surprised too. I flew from Vancouver to Madrid in one day - 9 time zones - and then started walking the next day, without getting a good night's sleep. Temperature has been mid to high 20s and these stretches are quite exposed.
I begin walking from Seville, March 23, so Ill be a few days behind you. enjoy the walk,
Vaya con Dios , Pilgrim,
Cliff
Clever decision! That road to the park is narrow and with much traffic. I did as you do, and started the day on the park entrance: A beautiful walk!Seriously consider the bus to Santiponce to ease Day 1.
Day 2 is no piece of cake either! I will start tomorrow (Day 3) with a taxi the 17 km to the start of the park. I am exhausted and know that highway walk would not enhance my life! (However, one good night of sleep could do wonders.)
Here in Ireland we recommend , Measure of Whiskey , spoon of sugar ,2 cloves and some boiling water, helps with curing the cold and giving you a nice sleepSo sorry to hear about your cold. Ginger and vinegar! Do take care C. Will watch for more.
Those who walked it that day agreed that it wasn't so bad. I just knew that I wasnt ready for that long a walk, that day.I just want to mention something about the highway walk of 16 km till the entrance of the park - for those who have yet to do the Plata. Some may think I'm nuts but I have done it three times (July 2011, February 2014 and June 2016) and I really don't think it's bad. In fact no one that was walking at the time skipped it. It just makes the rest of the walk through the park seem that much nicer. But then again walking for me is meditative, wherever it leads me.
Buen Camino @C clearly
I walked from Seville to Guillena yesterday. I found it to be tiring, possibly due to several nights with poor sleep and a 9 hour time change. People can consider staying in a hotel in Santiponce if they want to start slower. The route by Camas was a bit confusing, but you know you just need to go north (no sun in your face, which is nice). I managed to walk 26.6 km on a 22 km route!
I find that writing a blog is more than enough to keep my online time full, so you might want to follow it (www.tritetales.com ) as I don't know how much I'll update this thread. Those won't be guide book reports - the time for planning and preparation is over, so I'll try to describe the experience.
I walked it on Friday and to me it was a really nice walk. The amount of traffic is not bad at all.Hope that you are enjoying the albergue parochial, great place to rest in Monasterio.
I just want to mention something about the highway walk of 16 km till the entrance of the park - for those who have yet to do the Plata. Some may think I'm nuts but I have done it three times (July 2011, February 2014 and June 2016) and I really don't think it's bad. In fact no one that was walking at the time skipped it. It just makes the rest of the walk through the park seem that much nicer. But then again walking for me is meditative, wherever it leads me.
Buen Camino @C clearly
Don't tell me I am the unknown one! Today I walked through the rain from Almaden to Monesterio. On this way I had a nice Menu in El Real de la Jara with two French guys who did not walk further. These were the only pilgrims I met, so for me no one else was on the Camino today. Ehh, i sometimes saw some recent footprints/shoeprints.A few days behind started wed. Sun thurs frost fri rain sat rain but good. Arrows everywhere so impossible. Walkedthrough Camus. On almaden de la plata section all 10 of our group walked 29km. On first day the section after Santiponce now has a new bridge over stream. But be careful now boy racers have 10km of straught of track for fun. Half our group waljed the 34lm to monesterio. Our group 2 french 4 germans 2 spainish 1 irish and unknown.
More rain tomorrow fuente de cantos for some of us buen camino al
It's very confusing and then I got lost in Guillena until a great local guy stopped, asked me where I was going then drove me to the municipal albergue.I walked from Seville to Guillena yesterday. I found it to be tiring, possibly due to several nights with poor sleep and a 9 hour time change. People can consider staying in a hotel in Santiponce if they want to start slower. The route by Camas was a bit confusing, but you know you just need to go north (no sun in your face, which is nice). I managed to walk 26.6 km on a 22 km route!
I find that writing a blog is more than enough to keep my online time full, so you might want to follow it (www.tritetales.com ) as I don't know how much I'll update this thread. Those won't be guide book reports - the time for planning and preparation is over, so I'll try to describe the experience.
For me the worst on that long day was getting over the arroyos in the park on steppingstones with flowing water around you up to nearly up to your feet.
What time frame are you referring to with "new bridge"? I saw something that might HAVE BEEN a new bridge. Zoom in on this photo from last week and see some posts that are the only sign of a bridge.On first day the section after Santiponce now has a new bridge over stream.
Gee, thanks for the words of encouragement!For those people who are afraid of dogs etc--cows can be just as dangerous, or even more so! You might meet them on your way and be sure to NEVER walk between a cow and her calf! They might get furious and can outrun you. To be trampled to death is no fun--and it happens every year.
I'm in El real de la Jara. To monesterio tomorrow.Me too. March 23. Maybe we'll meet.
So am I. I don't think we've met tho. I am traveling with my grand daughter. We are at Hostal Encinta all by ourselves I think. i think we are going to stay at the muni in Monesterio tomorrow.I'm in El real de la Jara. To monesterio tomorrow.
This is great news for me. I like perfect weather! ;0)Good stuff. The weather is supposed to turn perfect for the next week or so!
Take care there. I spent 2 hours walking wrong there....SYates does mention a place some 9 km after leaving Monesterio. I walked there today and found it very easy to handle. You have to open a gate at that point--and close it again after going through it. Repeat that act at two other places and that's it.!
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