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Fantastic video! I'll be walking this route in May 2023...Sierra de Guadarrama - It is among the three most beautiful days on my Caminos.
Even so, if I hadn't booked a place to stay, I would have probably slept 3km before Segovia , under the railway overpass . Seriously (68 years old, overweight, 32km, ascent and descent and on your back everything you need for that day, because there is no food, drink,...).
And I'm still "attracted like a magnet"
Your commentary is really good, please do keep it going. I did the majority of the CdM a few years ago and you’re refreshing my memory.Heading up above 1000 metres and need to gain sustenance... They always put these towns perched on top of the hill looking south, back to Madrid. An old folks kitchen, but they let me eat a couple of tapes of eggs and potatoes! Centro de Mayores... Which was wonder fuel!
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Here I am. Started joyful, because eggs and chips are skill, but then bored on the saddle before a switchback - looking forward to the turn in the monotony - and into Manzanares el Real. Into the Hostel Pedriza, sopa(not a patch on yesterday's white bean and pork wonder), but I am enjoying the Godello vino until I heave towards the dormitory: all of Madrid's day trippers are hanging on to the edges of the Massif rising dominating above the town.
Tomorrow I turn my attention west before I have to go over this thing?
Final vino. Looked at the castle here which is definitely a folly or remade and just a made-up thing on top of an original thing. It's a pile of organised stones which looks like a castle: but are there garderobes in it?
Looking at Wikipedia it's not new, although it's called the new/nuevo, but I can't see it! If it was built in the late 1500s where is the wind or rain weathering... It must've had work done since the 16th century to keep it looking nuevo?
Not sure what's happened here. This is my experience:cradling a café largo after tostados con tomate from the sullen faced proprietor of Hostel La Pedriza, who speaks no English. It's a day tripper town and I guess on a Monday morning he's worn out from being polite to his clients over the weekend? But it's OK
I'm not long back after I walked this route , it was a wonderful journeyDay two dawns and I am awake around 7, but slept soundly and unbroken throughout the evening, after people around me in Hostal Tres Cantos*** had stopped running water... the sound of which carried along the corridor and between the wall and my space.
Yesterday I had a great shower after two nights in Madrid when I didn't bother. This morning is fresh clothing too. It was trying to rain last night as I walked along the boulevard to see what the 'features' were of this planned satellite of Madrid (a Spanish Milton Keynes) but nothing really was reaching the pavement - it was a rain illusion and a warning against complacency. The main feature was the width of the central square/rectangular tree lined avenue and it's distance away from the train station and town hall where the Camino de Madrid carried on without coming into the town. Yesterday I thought to keep going as 25 kilometres isn't so long, but the sleep deprivation was getting to me so much better a quiet night away from any 'historic' town - of which they will be plenty ahead?
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I think I met him, he was very helpful in the afternoon/early evening, but it wasn't him this morning at breakfast - it was another person - the toast I had was barely warmed...Not sure what's happened here. This is my experience:
HLP is run by a couple. Mariano speaks really good English from his time studying in the UK. Teresa doesn't speak English but was extremely kind and helpful when I stayed in October, despite it being manically busy on the national day holiday. Both looked after me when I stayed an extra day to try and recover from a bad fall. In fact, completely unsolicited, they're still assisting me in trying to retrieve missing stuff that I posted home from the local Correos at the time.
And add to that the fact that it was a relentlessly straight line with no visual distractions for 12 (?) kilometers?!My abiding memory is of seeing Segovia in the distance and it remaining in the distance for an awfully long time!
My abiding memory will be there being no room in the inns ... Hostal Jaime €50... But the hostess was warm and it's got breakfast... All the Albergues are closed? Why...My abiding memory is of seeing Segovia in the distance and it remaining in the distance for an awfully long time! It was tough in the heat, but probably much worse in the cold and rain. Keep on trudging!
Segovia doesn’t have a pilgrim’s albergue, at least not that I know about. The closest one is Zamarramala, about 3 kms further on, but according to Gronze it’s closed from mid-November.My abiding memory will be there being no room in the inns ... Hostal Jaime €50... But the hostess was warm and it's got breakfast... All the Albergues are closed? Why...
Not so many people walk this way even in midsummer. December? Even fewer.All the Albergues are closed? Why.
Me too!. And even though I’d read this would be the case … it felt like we would never get there.My abiding memory is of seeing Segovia in the distance and it remaining in the distance for an awfully long time!
On too many vinos last evening... And some fine 'biscuits' left me nursing a pilgrim hangover. The breakfast was the bare minimum...but I am not lame currently!Not so many people walk this way even in midsummer. December? Even fewer.
Hope you enjoyed the comfort and decent breakfast, which sounds essential for today!
Good thing you stopped there because I believe the albergue in Santa María remains closed. Sorry to hear about your foot problem, and hoping that the rest will be all it needs to continue propelling you forward in comfort.And I am stopping before the suggested etapa/pause which is a little further up ahead after Añe. The bar is open and so is the Albergue.
Thanks for the support, but this is something that, although it comes and goes, is getting progressively worse the more I walk - dog walking, leisure walking or Camino and I really need it seen to so I can get back to full Camino form.Good thing you stopped there because I believe the albergue in Santa María remains closed. Sorry to hear about your foot problem, and hoping that the rest will be all it needs to continue propelling you forward in comfort.
It had to happen?I have had to booooook my return flight on Monday: English rail strikes and getting back to Leeds... So tomorrow I will walk as much as I capable then hitch to Valladolid and then stop there until Sunday when I return to Madrid... It's a feast day in Spain so again I failed to find a place to stay? No no no I am in the football ground in Nava de la Asunción...
My foot was OK today - I think the deluge distracted it? But I looked at the logistics of heading back to Yorkshire from Spain and Madrid is the best option: England may be heading for a General Strike...Dang. So sorry. But maybe your foot is happy about that?
I am glad you found a place other than the hotel in Nava de la Asunción, @futurefjp, it sounds like the town has found a place for pilgrims to stay. There was a nice little privately owned albergue, whose owner was a truck driver in the region, but that has been closed for all of 2022.Three and a quarter hours until here: Nava de la Asunción.
next to the football ground behind the bull ring..
I am enjoying your reports which bring back happy memories.I am glad you found a place other than the hotel in Nava de la Asunción, @futurefjp, it sounds like the town has found a place for pilgrims to stay. There was a nice little privately owned albergue, whose owner was a truck driver in the region, but that has been closed for all of 2022.
This sounds like it could be the polideportivo? Gronze does not list anything besides the hotel and the private albergue, so it’d be helpful to notify them of where you are staying. I’m happy to do that, if you just put some details here to explain.
Sounds like you are toasty warm, notwithstanding your backpack’s bigtime fail!
Steady on there. With the exception of the rail sector - which still has a regional monopoly - the private sector’s too busy trying to survive to go on strike.England may be heading for a General Strike...
Nurses, airport workers, postal workers and rail workers...Steady on there. With the exception of the rail sector - which still has a regional monopoly - the private sector’s too busy trying to survive to go on strike.
And BT just reached a pay settlement to prevent its staff taking strike action...Steady on there. With the exception of the rail sector - which still has a regional monopoly - the private sector’s too busy trying to survive to go on strike.
Yes that's the one. It's a bit damp: my smalls were a little damp before I got ready for this final day of 2022?I am enjoying your reports which bring back happy memories.
Is that a room (with four beds) in the polidepoetivo opposite a smart-looking but immensely friendly hotel called Fray Sebastian? I stayed in the accommodation in 2017 and had the impression it was new then and replaced something by the bullring.
Well done on those seven days and thanks for sharing the ups and downs with us. I've enjoyed following your posts and remembering the delights of my (summer!) Camino de Madrid.Last 5 kilometres passing over ancient bridge: Alcazarén up ahead? And then public transport to Valladolid - not bad going for 7 days with no rest days. Two nights in Valladolid then back to Chueca for a final hurrah! Covered some Camino mileage since I set off from Paris back in spring in the snow... Will carry on somewhere in spring 2023?
Keep going Buen CaminoThe last few kilometres(10ish) was absolutely brutal on my foot, but now I am sat drinking Albariño and eating tapes pork tail, burnt paella which I specifically asked for (the rice which gets stuck on the pan - lush) and dinky pork sausages - and watching the locals cheer on Spain against Morocco (0-0) and I am ravenous.
But looking at the route today it looks quite some distance and I don't know if there is an Albergue open - the symbols on Gronze suggest not - and suddenly I am worried that the cost of accommodation is too much for much longer for me when I can't self cater either.
Day five already...
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I always called this the bleeding forest. Resin collection for adhesive making?View attachment 137934wet resin?
In the past I've eaten bits of resin - in Croatia for instance - but don't ever try those in these plantations! Talk about sticky! It got everywhere!I always called this the bleeding forest. Resin collection for adhesive making?
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