There are few towns along the Mozarabe, and today a choice of 18 or 39 kms - not really a choice. We haven't carried our packs for almost a year. We need to walk our way back into this!
As is often the case leaving a large town, the first hour or so was through uninspiring urban outskirts, with easy to miss signs. We managed to add a couple of kms to the official 18 by backtracking when we twice missed the arrows. But we were soon on quiet rural paths and a steady climb for the last few hours. All in all an excellent and much needed training day with a timely reminder to watch for the Camino signs. No biggie adding kms on a short distance but there are a few long days ahead and The French and I have a track record of making short days long and long days even longer.
Pierre if you see this post, we are happily settled in a lovely room (40 euro for 2) in Bar X. Even with our limited Spanish it was clear from his big smile that the tres gentil hospitalero Angel remembers you well. Merci pour le recommendation and all the other information you gave us.
The bar restaurant downstairs has an inviting atmosphere and seems to be popular with the locals. We are looking forward to our menu del peregrino tonight. I wonder if there will be any other pilgrims there. We didn't see any along The Way.
J x
An early finish today has given me time to wrangle the technology and write more than I thought I would manage. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
