MickMac
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Ponferrada-Santiago
July 2019
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The meseta was a beautiful place. I walked the meseta in September, so I was spared the intense heat. Other than some long stretches between my Kaz and croissant breaks, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The walk to Calzadilla was sickening and no sign of the Roman road just endless monotonous landscape in a desert of heat, it was the only time if someone had offered a lift I would have accepted.I loved it. What I will do differently from this spring camino for next one is not do the green route from Calzada del Coto to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos and then to Reliegos. I'll follow the highway. I found the landscape not that pleasing and the old roman roads were very hard on the feet. I don't regret doing it...just will not do it a second time. This picture is one of my favorites and although seen many times from other pilgrim pics...It talks to me
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It felt sad to me...The walk to Calzadilla was sickening and no sign of the Roman road just endless monotonous landscape in a desert of heat, it was the only time if someone had offered a lift I would have accepted.
There was something strange about the village I never quite worked out, a feeling something lingers from the past.
Cannot explain just not quite part of any Camino.
I never understood why so many pilgrims skipped these beautiful pieces.
The walk to Calzadilla was sickening and no sign of the Roman road just endless monotonous landscape in a desert of heat, it was the only time if someone had offered a lift I would have accepted.
There was something strange about the village I never quite worked out, a feeling something lingers from the past.
Cannot explain just not quite part of any Camino.
Don't think that is the actual Roman Road it's to your right of the pic and fenced off with low fence.Have they changed the route?
Weren't you walking ON the Roman Road?
My screen saver pic.........
As far as I know, that is the Roman Road. It was darned straight anyway.
Parts of the old Roman Road were more obvious walking into Hornillos I recall.
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From Brierley.
Calzada Romana Via Aquitana. We now join a stretch of the original Roman road still intact after 2,000 years of use - save for a new gravel covering! What is more remarkable is the fact that this section goes through an area of bogland devoid of any stone for its construction. It is estimated that 100,000 tons of rock was needed just for the substrata to raise the surface above the winter flood levels and every ton had to be transported from elsewhere.
I think in Roman times the Roman roads were covered like this. The stony roads we consider "Roman roads" on the Caminos are just ones where the original top layers have washed away over time leaving the substrata. If the Roman legions had really walked long distances on those stones to their battles I can't imagine them arriving in any condition to fight. Any time I see in a stage description that a Roman road is in the offing I know my feet are in for a beating.Don't think that is the actual Roman Road it's to your right of the pic and fenced off with low fence.
Maybe wrong, "but no one is perfect", the idea of covering the Roman road is for protection, a strange one unless it was sustaining damage.