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nellpilgrim said:Do let us know if the " detour to Santa Lucía del Trampal, a 7th century Visigothic church outside Alcuescar" was worth it.
peregrina2000 said:...The days walking from Casar de Caceres to Cañaveral and then to Galisteo were of incredible beauty. There were fields of wild flowers, lots of wetlands and birds, stone walls, cork and oak trees. I really had no idea there was so much natural beauty on this camino.....
peregrina2000 said:.....You will find that many people take a bus for those 60-somethng kms. Well, that's fine, but if you're inclined to walk, you should know that there are really only 13 or so bad kms along the side of the A-66 in that stretch, and there are many kms of dirt-gravel tracks through very pretty agricultural lands. If the wind blows, there are waving green fields, it's really quite pretty......
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Take a rest day in Salamanca -- let me say that again, take a rest day in Salamanca, it is such a beautiful lively city.
peregrina2000 said:We are going via Ourense. There is no way in the world you could convince me to join up with the Francés in Astorga, based on what I'm reading here.
andy.d said:I found the albergue in Montamarta to be basic but OK.
Riego del Camino should be avoided like the plague, due to a very dirty bar manned by a woman with the personality of a junkyard dog - and no toilet!
peregrina2000 said:... We took the highway up on the advice of the Guardia Civil, but I'm not convinced we had to do that, I think the camino would have been ok, it looked like a pretty solid path.
peregrina2000 said:I can hardly believe it, I'm in Santiago. I saw that with a slight extra effort, I could arrive early enough in Santiago to be able to walk to Muxía, so after a couple of long days, I'm here. Laurie
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