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March 8 2018 Via de la Plata

Today we woke up to a crisp and overcast day. The albergue last night was a donativo albergue with no heat but plenty of blankets. It is cold at night so I used a blanket to sleep on, my down sleeping bag and two…

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March 9 2018 Via de la Plata

Today we decided to take a taxi to Puebla Sanabria and then the train to Ourense. The weather is getting worse. The snow is coming down and we just did not want to nor think it was safe to walk. Orense is the…

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March 5 2018 Day 16 Via de la Plata

Today we decided at the urging or our hospitalera, Mercedes to take the bus to Zamora. I’ll admit it was not that hard to convince me, so off we went on the bus from El Cubo de Vino to Zamora. Zamora is a beautiful…

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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…