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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…
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…
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…
Today was my 8th day of walking. It seems that it takes about a week or two to get used to the daily grind of walking long distances every day. Yesterday, I felt pretty good, today not quite as good but still good. My…
Today started out great. A crisp cold but sunny day of only about 28k. I was happy with the thought that we would be done walking in a little less than 6 hours. We walked past an hermitage and then up the steep hill and…
Today I started out in Cáceres ready for a nice 33k walk to Embalses Alcántara. The walk took us along a man made lake or embalse to what was supposed to be a new albergue on the shore of the lake. Well, it will be open…