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Hi @Kanga thanks so much for your help. This Aussie made The Way and walked the Finisterre for good measure. Cried on the bus back to SdC. Flying out tomorrow. Yes, I am planning the next one. :-/I walked this morning to Santiponce along a muddy and slippery river route. There was a spectacular thunderstorm last night and the local police tell me the Arroyo los Molinos between here and Guillena is full again. So I’ll spend the rest of today exploring Italica and will spend the night here. Then decide how to proceed in the morning. I was lucky to get the last room in the hotel - a bus tour has taken most of the rooms. It looks nice and is very reasonably priced.
Yes indeed. They got very muddy this morning and my feet were filthy but both feet and sandals easily wash clean and are now dry and ready for tomorrow.Buen camino Kanga. Are you walking in sandals?
Hi Kanga,
Just before the Rio there is a sign indicating a diversion to the left, I think it goes under the motorway then right. In the event I would walk up to the Rio and check, we were there a week ago and despite posts to the contrary the pallet bridge looked as if it had been in place for some time.
Regards
George
Unfortunately the pallet bridge has fallen apart, at least someone posted a picture of it a few days ago on a Spanish Vía de la Plata Facebook page.
Kanga, I don't qualify professionally, but my walking companion is a gp and she always prepares a glass of water with a lot of sugar when we finish walking, to help prevent cramps.Any doctors or physiotherapists or scientists out there with knowledge about preventing muscle cramps? I’ve just had a doozy. I’m drinking lots of water and now downing a magnesium and potassium supplement. My theory is that as I age I’m just not absorbing nutrients the way I used to. Help!
Thanks for the info LTfit.
I walked this morning to Santiponce along a muddy and slippery river route. There was a spectacular thunderstorm last night and the local police tell me the Arroyo los Molinos between here and Guillena is full again. So I’ll spend the rest of today exploring Italica and will spend the night here. Then decide how to proceed in the morning. I was lucky to get the last room in the hotel - a bus tour has taken most of the rooms. It looks nice and is very reasonably priced.
You beet me to this about the red socks , great .You're there, red socks and all! Yay.
Muy buen camino, Kanga!
Kanga, can you please tell me the Hotel you stayed in Santiponce, I'm thinking of staying there to break up the first day, just in case I have to take the extended diversion.
Honey dijon, if available in Spain, will take care of both mustard and sugar.@peregrina2000 Sugar and mustard! I’ll try both. Although mustard will have to wait for a supermarket - does it have to be Hot English - or could it be Dijon? This is important!
The “normal” night cramps in the calf muscles don’t worry me too much - they pull out fairly easily. It’s the large ones in my thighs and through the torso. Yuk!
It (honey dijon) also makes a nice accompaniment to the jamon for which this part of the world is famous.Honey dijon, if available in Spain, will take care of both mustard and sugar.
Hi Laurie - are you still on the Almeria track? Hope you've been able to link up with another mob!Jill, I used to have terrible night cramps, but @Anniesantiago recommended that I take a teaspoon of mustard every night and no problem since then.
Possibly calcium Jill..I would try that too. Plus some gentle stretches.Any doctors or physiotherapists or scientists out there with knowledge about preventing muscle cramps? I’ve just had a doozy. I’m drinking lots of water and now downing a magnesium and potassium supplement. My theory is that as I age I’m just not absorbing nutrients the way I used to. Help!
Thanks for the info LTfit.
Ahh Kanga what an appropriate time to read your post. I'm a lurker on the forum and found your posts, along with other caring people, very helpful when I walked in a very hot Aug/Sep 2016. The Camino was a wonderful experience which I enjoyed immensely, however, at the time I could not have imagined I would want to do it again. Here I am 20 months later not as fit as I could be, a tad unprepared, but with an overwhelming desire to walk again (commencing SJPDP around 23 May). Contemplated trying the VdLP but thought it may be of bit beyond me. Your quote "the road is always waiting, just outside" quite apt. Just a chance for a forum "lurker" to thank you and several others for their caring and helpful posts.I walked this morning to Santiponce along a muddy and slippery river route. There was a spectacular thunderstorm last night and the local police tell me the Arroyo los Molinos between here and Guillena is full again. So I’ll spend the rest of today exploring Italica and will spend the night here. Then decide how to proceed in the morning. I was lucky to get the last room in the hotel - a bus tour has taken most of the rooms. It looks nice and is very reasonably priced.
Any limestone about? You can always chew a bit of that for a "natural" approach!@longwayhome I chose the magnesium plus potassium mix rather than the magnesium plus calcium - there was a choice. I guess yoghurt and lots of cafe con leche should be added to the honey mustard! This is some weird diet, particularly as I’d like to drop a few kilos!
rings a bell from way back... salt licks...Any limestone about? You can always chew a bit of that for a "natural" approach!
I saw quite a few salt licks in the pasture land along the VdlP. Never got quite desperate enough to share them with the sheep and cattle though ;-)rings a bell from way back... salt licks...
Sorry to hear that. The municipal albergue seems to have had lots of problems and closures over the past year or so. I stayed in the private albergue Luz del Camino and found it very pleasant.I cannot say the Guillena albergue impresses. If I could find a broom and a garbage bag I could do something about it.
and more than likely, no cramps!!! enjoy.So, having a great night at the albergue with France, Japan, Belgium and Canada. Belgium is cooking. My contribution is the bottle of oruja and it seems to be going down well. We will either snore, or be oblivious to others snoring.
Tonic water with quinine , not only does it act as a preventative a small glass will alieviate symptoms within minutes.
I passed through there about two weeks ago and was told a local man with mental health issues set fire to the albergue.sounds like a firebug!
@peregrina2000 Sugar and mustard! I’ll try both. Although mustard will have to wait for a supermarket - does it have to be Hot English - or could it be Dijon? This is important!
The “normal” night cramps in the calf muscles don’t worry me too much - they pull out fairly easily. It’s the large ones in my thighs and through the torso. Yuk!
@longwayhome I chose the magnesium plus potassium mix rather than the magnesium plus calcium - there was a choice. I guess yoghurt and lots of cafe con leche should be added to the honey mustard! This is some weird diet, particularly as I’d like to drop a few kilos!
Hi Kanga, I completed Augusta yesterday arvo and was enquiring at the INFORMATION place near the Cathedral about Italia They Told me it was closed. I had planned on bussing out today so I could concentrate on starting VDLP. Was I told a fib?I walked this morning to Santiponce along a muddy and slippery river route. There was a spectacular thunderstorm last night and the local police tell me the Arroyo los Molinos between here and Guillena is full again. So I’ll spend the rest of today exploring Italica and will spend the night here. Then decide how to proceed in the morning. I was lucky to get the last room in the hotel - a bus tour has taken most of the rooms. It looks nice and is very reasonably priced.
Hi Kanga, glad to see you’re out on the trail again. I’m half way between Paris and SJPdP walking to Santiago. Still deciding whether to turn right at DAX to walk the Norte. Have a wonderful time.I walked this morning to Santiponce along a muddy and slippery river route. There was a spectacular thunderstorm last night and the local police tell me the Arroyo los Molinos between here and Guillena is full again. So I’ll spend the rest of today exploring Italica and will spend the night here. Then decide how to proceed in the morning. I was lucky to get the last room in the hotel - a bus tour has taken most of the rooms. It looks nice and is very reasonably priced.
My advice is to arrange to spend more time in Merida, in order to take in both the Roman sites and the excellent museum. You cannot see better examples of Roman artefacts anywhere. In other words, forget Italica.Hi Kanga, I completed Augusta yesterday arvo and was enquiring at the INFORMATION place near the Cathedral about Italia They Told me it was closed. I had planned on bussing out today so I could concentrate on starting VDLP. Was I told a fib?
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