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March 6 2018. Day 16 Via de la Plata

Today we walked from Zamora to Montamarta. It started out overcast but not too bad. We followed the road out of town and then onto the Camino. It was a nice walk for the first half. Once we passed our first town we…

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March 6 2018 Day 17 Via de la Plata

My days and dates are off this is correct. Today we decided to take a shortcut, which actually was a long cut but it shortened camino by one day. The Camino goes in a triangle and the normal route would be to go the two…

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March 7 2018. Day 18 Via de la Plata

Today was a beautiful day. As we left the albergue the sun was out and it was crisp. Read that COLD. Our plan was to walk 24k to Santa Marta de Tera. The walk was very nice, we were in the foothills and walking up and…

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March 3 2018 Days 14 and 15 Via de la Plata

Yesterday I had a nice rest day in Salamanca and played tourist. My camino friend Ed Tweedy and I visited more museums than I normally do in a year and toured the old and new Cathedral of Salamanca. To top it all off we…

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March 1, 2018 Days 13 & 14 Via de la Plata

It has been a very cold few days. Not much time to write as the days have been long. I am in Salamanca today. A beautiful city with tons of history. There is a beautiful cathedral, actually, two as the old and new are…

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February 27 2018. Days 11 & 12 Via de la Plata

On Monday we started out at the Hostal Asturias, which was a convenient place to stay but my first cold shower on the Camino. We did not leave until a very gentile hour of 9am as we were only walking 20k to Baños…