Very early start today as I was sharing a dormitory with an Italian who left early. The previous day she had walked over 30km in the hot sun carrying 4lts of water, not finishing till 3pm in 36° heat.
Later travelling through a mainly flat plane of rich agricultural crops. Mostly vegetables, maize but also some olives and a few cows and sheep. I wish I had photos of this as the lush irrigated fields were so green after days of barren savana. I came across several older gents just sitting, admiring the morning. I make up stories about them to pass the time.
My first 5km were up hill in the dark on very quiet roads.
The sun rose to a mixed agricultural landscape. Initially of mature holm oaks with a grazed understory creating an almost country estate type landscape. I’ve not seen holm oak look like that before.
Dramatic skies with occasional lightning and rumbles of thunder threatening from the west. Forecast says it will rain tonight with slightly cooler weather to follow 34°
Breakfast in the lovely small town of Galisteo where I understand you can still walk atop the old city walls made from big pebbles taken from the river below. I gave that a miss.
A cluster of martins nest in arches in the wall.
On to Carcaboso that is not actually on the old Roman Vía de la Plata route but they pinched some Roman route markers to display next to the small church anyway.
The albergue looks lovely and I’m in, just not registered yet. Very clean and accessible. I needed to have a Spanish WhatsApp conversation to get the door code to enter.
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