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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Vasco-Olvidado-San Salvador 2023
(Note to Mods: Feel free to move this, especially if this Camino takes off and gets its own forum. As it’s a variant of the San Salvador I posted it here.)
I survived the first day!
I had breakfast at Cafe Viejo around 7:30 this morning in Boñar after staying in Hostal Nisi. Walked a bit over a km out of town and crossed the cool medievalish bridge. The Olvidado goes left, and the Allerano goes right.
A bit along a rural track before meeting up with the road for about 500 meters. Ender’s Wikiloc goes through Cerecedo and then begins to ascend for the first time along the river. The top had incredible views. I saw some deer below as I began the descent, and they took off when they saw me from afar.
Goes down to the river again, crosses a bridge, and meets up with the road again just outside of Valdecastillo. Google said there was a bar that may have been open, but I wasn’t really wanting to risk to go off trail to find that it was closed or non existent.
About 500 meters later it went up again on a goat trail that didn’t really look like it was even a trail—but it was. After this climb it meets up with a different road and then goes along it (very little traffic) for about 10 km….but with increíble scenery! I met some friendly dogs along the way. It goes through Valdehuesa, which has a restaurant that opens at 12:30 according to Google. I passed it around 10.
Views just kept getting better and better.
It passed a hamlet, Rucayo, which sort of reminded me of Ruesta on the Aragonés.
So it appears that Ender may have got lost or off track here. I also had Ray and Rosa’s track, but I know they sometimes use Ender’s. I saw they were different. I went with Ender’s. It went up a steep mountain—forest at least because it was upper 20s C by this time. Then it got to a forest that makes the Olvidado 10B (which I did Tuesday) forest look easy to follow. There was no path. The Wikiloc was going every which way. I eventually found where it went down but was very steep and at one point I had to sit and scoot…safety first. I later had to go through bushes which wasn’t fun.
After that hellish hour, I finally found the nice PR trail and it was all beautiful again. It reminded me of San Salvador between Buiza and Poladura.
Last 3 Km or so to Puebla de Lillo was along the road.
Staying at Hostal Madrid. I think 50€ with desayuno included, haven’t paid yet (apparently at breakfast). I got here at 3:45 and they were still serving lunch thankfully! There are a couple of other places to stay. I think the Hostal Porma was booked but may be just a bit cheaper but without breakfastNo albergue that I know of.
The town has a very basic autoservicio supermarket.
I didn’t see any Romanesque churches, since I know there are a ton of fans here.
No markings—sometimes a PR yellow and white when the track coincided with it. I wasn’t expecting any though.
This has the potential to be a great Camino that links the Olvidado with the San Salvador (near Uxo). But the one part after Rucayo needs to be sorted
Going to try to upload pics but the wifi is horrible so who knows!
Tomorrow on to Felechosa!
I survived the first day!
I had breakfast at Cafe Viejo around 7:30 this morning in Boñar after staying in Hostal Nisi. Walked a bit over a km out of town and crossed the cool medievalish bridge. The Olvidado goes left, and the Allerano goes right.
A bit along a rural track before meeting up with the road for about 500 meters. Ender’s Wikiloc goes through Cerecedo and then begins to ascend for the first time along the river. The top had incredible views. I saw some deer below as I began the descent, and they took off when they saw me from afar.
Goes down to the river again, crosses a bridge, and meets up with the road again just outside of Valdecastillo. Google said there was a bar that may have been open, but I wasn’t really wanting to risk to go off trail to find that it was closed or non existent.
About 500 meters later it went up again on a goat trail that didn’t really look like it was even a trail—but it was. After this climb it meets up with a different road and then goes along it (very little traffic) for about 10 km….but with increíble scenery! I met some friendly dogs along the way. It goes through Valdehuesa, which has a restaurant that opens at 12:30 according to Google. I passed it around 10.
Views just kept getting better and better.
It passed a hamlet, Rucayo, which sort of reminded me of Ruesta on the Aragonés.
So it appears that Ender may have got lost or off track here. I also had Ray and Rosa’s track, but I know they sometimes use Ender’s. I saw they were different. I went with Ender’s. It went up a steep mountain—forest at least because it was upper 20s C by this time. Then it got to a forest that makes the Olvidado 10B (which I did Tuesday) forest look easy to follow. There was no path. The Wikiloc was going every which way. I eventually found where it went down but was very steep and at one point I had to sit and scoot…safety first. I later had to go through bushes which wasn’t fun.
After that hellish hour, I finally found the nice PR trail and it was all beautiful again. It reminded me of San Salvador between Buiza and Poladura.
Last 3 Km or so to Puebla de Lillo was along the road.
Staying at Hostal Madrid. I think 50€ with desayuno included, haven’t paid yet (apparently at breakfast). I got here at 3:45 and they were still serving lunch thankfully! There are a couple of other places to stay. I think the Hostal Porma was booked but may be just a bit cheaper but without breakfastNo albergue that I know of.
The town has a very basic autoservicio supermarket.
I didn’t see any Romanesque churches, since I know there are a ton of fans here.
No markings—sometimes a PR yellow and white when the track coincided with it. I wasn’t expecting any though.
This has the potential to be a great Camino that links the Olvidado with the San Salvador (near Uxo). But the one part after Rucayo needs to be sorted
Going to try to upload pics but the wifi is horrible so who knows!
Tomorrow on to Felechosa!
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