Refreshments Via de la plata

musicman said:

hola,

Am I right into presuming there are no bars, fountains, etc on the stage between Casar de Caceres and Canaveral? Any other guidance on " dry" sections up to Zamora, welcome.

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Yes nothing that day but one or two covered seating areas. My diary also shows nowhere open between El Cubo de Vino and Zamora. Not sure about fountains I walked in February and water was not an issue.

I walked the whole VDLP from Sevilla last September/October and saw very very few fountains with potable water.
When you get to the albergue in Cañaveral, be sure to explicitly ask about the path to Galisteo. They did not mention a long term closure and a number of people walking on the same day were confused by conflicting information.

Actually, one of our worst days for water was shortly after Cañaveral in the stage from Galisteo to Cáparra. After much consideration, I shared a bit of my emergency reserve of water with my walking partner (only because he was quite adept at getting us complementary Orujos after dinner). On longer stages, I found that my 1.5 Litre Nalgene bottle and a 500ml back-up was adequate, on shorter stages I did not necessarily fill up the back-up - of course, there are a number of factors which could impact your water consumption.

But actually, my most important advice is if anybody in Valverde de Valdelacasa offers you Morcilla, run do not walk to Fuenterroble de Salvatierra.

nalod said:

Yes nothing that day but one or two covered seating areas. My diary also shows nowhere open between El Cubo de Vino and Zamora. Not sure about fountains I walked in February and water was not an issue.

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From other posts on here I think that there are refreshments available at Villanueva de Campean.

I thought there was a well of potable water just outside Canaveral. Not far from the little church on the way out of town.

Be especially careful at Caparra because there are vending machines INSIDE the information centre but once that place is locked up there is no access to them. And heaven forbid that the staff leave 10 minutes early on a Sunday (which is exactly when we got there with my walking buddy having run out of water and I had about 200 mL left.) We were very thankful that we had grabbed the phone numbers for the Hostal Asturias so we got picked up rather than walk there. We were travelling in summer and both of us were used to carrying a lot of water.