VDLP The First 8 Days

[Anniesantiago]

I just finished posting on my blog about our experience walking the first eight days of the VDLP.
It begins here

http://caminosantiago2.blogspot.com/2011/01/walking-via-de-la-plata-days-before.html

and continues with a new post to the blog each day until we reach Fuente de Campos.

There are plenty of photos so you can get an idea of how it looks.
Please feel free to leave your comments.
Annie

 

[Caminando]

Ta! AS.
Looks like a nice blog .....you are so right about the severity of the heat on the VDLP.

I started in Merida, walked for several days, starting before first light and yet was fried by 11.30 ish. Done in, grilled, toasted.

I had to regroup and restarted in Salamanca.

 

[hel&scott]

Can be hot, but weather is far more manageable in September... and it cools as you go north getting quiet chilly around Salamanca and bound to rain in Galicia in October so it's all a balancing act.

Beautiful walk though and well worth starting early and finishing before the heat of the day, added bonus you can catch the end of Spanish lunch!

 

[nellpilgrim]

Great blog Annie,
How did you get as far as you did ? I'd have died in that heat actually just slowly (well not that slowly) melted. Love the look of this route but.......too darn hot :shock: . Being able to change 'the plan' as you did and continue walking on other routes was fantastic.
Nell

 

[Vigdis]

Very nice blog, Annie.
I've added it to my favorites, and gonna have a more closely look soon.

Hopefully I will one day walk this path too

 

[Anniesantiago]

I just noticed my blog has disappeared!

I'm trying to reconstruct it...will post when I'm done.