Today – the dreaded long day past the Embalse de Alcántara – was my favourite yet! However I admit that its status began to decline significantly after 30 km. The first half was a beautiful walk in perfect conditions. Then we had a bit of adventure and mischief when we chose to ignore the detour…

Today completes 2 weeks of walking. The first half of the day was to Cáceres, a beautiful historic city. The second half involved an hour of unpleasant highway walking (we might have missed a turnoff) and then a couple more hours to this town. The municipal albergue is not  particularly nice, but only €5 including…

Today was a really nice day – walk was long but not difficult,  and had variety. There was even a jet-powered glider acrobatics display as I crossed a nearby deserted airport. The albergue in Valdesalor is quite new and is conveniently the first building in the town. Notice all the pilgrim laundry hanging on the…