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Day 15 - Genuine
Sat 30th Sept., Aldea del Cano to Cáceres, 22 klms Possibly only a short post today. It was a hard but enjoyable walk, and to use a...
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Oct 1, 20233 min read
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Day 14 - Muy Amable
Fri 29th Sept., Alcuéscar to Aldea del Cano, 15klms I had many choices for the title of today’s post, but this one slightly pips the...
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Sep 30, 20235 min read
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Day 13 - Slow News Day
Thu 28th Sept., Aljucén to Alcuéscar It's not that it was really a long day today, it just seemed that way. Only around about 20 klms,...
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Sep 29, 20232 min read
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Day 12 - Good call
Wed 27th Sept., Mérida to Aljucén, 17klms Today started with much uncertainty - should I walk or should I not? I didn’t want to just sit...
pac
Sep 28, 20233 min read
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Day 11 - Relapse
Tue 26th Sept., Mérida The bug struck back with a vengeance last night, so today really was a day of rest. Early afternoon we ventured...
pac
Sep 27, 20231 min read
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Day 10 - Recovery/reset day
Mon 25th Sept., Torremegía to Mérida Today’s blog will be a somewhat disjointed affair. After our enforced stop at Torremejia, in which...
pac
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Day 9 - Well, I didn't see that coming ...
Sun 24th Sept., Villafranca de los Barros to Torremegía, en coche You don't need all the gory details, but in summary I've been struck...
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Sep 25, 20231 min read
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Day 8 - Ups and Downs, Pt II
Sat 23rd Sept., Zafra to Villafranca de los Barros Just a brief catch-up photojournal, for reasons which will become obvious ... The path...
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Sep 25, 20231 min read
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Day 7 - What's Important?
Fri 22nd Sept., Fuente de Cantos to Zafra, ~26 klms [Some stats – estimated at a little over 26 klms, 33/35,000 steps recorded on our...
pac
Sep 23, 20235 min read
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Day 6 - Pretty Tough
Thu 21st Sept., Monesterio to Fuente de Cantos, 21klms I think that "pretty tough" is an Aussie colloquialism. We'll add the word...
pac
Sep 22, 20232 min read
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Day 5 - Azul
Wed 20th Sept., El Real de la Jara to Monesterio, 20klms I could just as easily called today A Tale Of Two Roads, but that title has sort...
pac
Sep 21, 20233 min read
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Day 4 - Lo viejo y lo nuevo
Tue 19th Sept., Almadén de la Plata to El Real de la Jara; 13.8 klms I'm seeing a pattern here already - if I think the day's to be hard,...
pac
Sep 20, 20234 min read
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Day 3 - Under the Andalusian Sun
Mon 18th Sept., Castilblanco de los Arroyos to Almadén de la Plata, 28 klms First, a pronuncian lesson for the Aussies in the audience. ...
pac
Sep 19, 20233 min read
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Day 2 - Smelling The Roses
Sunday 17th Sept. Guillena to Castilblanco de los Arroyos Those of you who have some familiarity with my past blog posts will know that...
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Sep 18, 20233 min read
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Day 1 - The journey or the destination??
Saturday 16th Sept. Sevilla to Guillena I know the correct answer to that rhetorical question, but today I temporarily overlooked that...
pac
Sep 17, 20233 min read
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Me Encantar Sevilla
Day 0, Friday 15th September Just under four years ago (in 2019) we spent a week here in Sevilla. On September 27th of that year I posted...
pac
Sep 15, 20234 min read
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T minus 4
Exploring Brittany - 8th-12th September Our trip to Brittany to visit Grace and Howard Boorman was the sole purpose of our trip to France...
pac
Sep 13, 20235 min read
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T minus 7
El turista exige, el prergrino agradece "The tourist demands, the pilgrim thanks/appreciates" The cover page of the Via de la Plata...
pac
Sep 10, 20234 min read
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T minus 31
Wednesday 16th August In exactly 31 days - one month - I'll be another year older (plus 2 days). On that day, 16th September, Janet and I...
pac
Aug 16, 20233 min read
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