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WisTom

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Camino Levante. Feb 2024

• Mar 4, 2024

• #1

Just in case you're thinking that snow only falls in Galicia, I've attached a couple photos from yesterday's 41km stage from Cebreros to Ávila. Besides the cool temps, there have been wind advisories nearly every day with winds in the 25-40 km range and gusting higher. The bright side yesterday is that precipitation fell as snow pellets, not rain.

 

LTfit

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• Mar 4, 2024

• #2

Beautiful pictures! Doesn't surprise me at that altitude.

I left Toledo years ago on Easter Sunday and on the morning leaving Àvila it was -1c. The couple of days through the mountains were my favorites even though it was pelting rain.

 

Donna Sch

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• Mar 4, 2024

• #3

This is the weather I packed for and didn't get in Feb 2019. It can get very cold in this area. Beautiful country especially in the snow.

 

peregrina2000

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• Mar 6, 2024

• #4

I see on another thread that you are in Arévalo - one of my favorite places on the Levante with its beautiful plazas and churches. Would love to hear more about your adventure if you care to post!

 

WisTom

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Camino Levante. Feb 2024

• Mar 7, 2024

• #5

peregrina2000 said:

I see on another thread that you are in Arévalo - one of my favorite places on the Levante with its beautiful plazas and churches. Would love to hear more about your adventure if you care to post!

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Arévalo is impressive for the number of monuments in a town of 8000. There is so much history outside of the large cities. I chatted with a woman and her daughter in the old plaza last night, commenting on how empty it is. We were the only ones there. She agreed that the historic plaza is not being properly promoted and also agreed what a shame that the churches always seem to be locked.
Thank you for your kind words about posting more on the Levante. I've thought of it, but, as you know, the stages on the Levante are long and the days have a way of coming to an end too soon. The posts never seem to get written.

 

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Lana

• Mar 12, 2024

• #6

WoW! Great photos. More please. You must be feeling alive walking through the crisp air.