Starting early has its advantages, its a lot cooler and you are fresher, we are expecting a top of 38c today. Our accommodation put on a nice breakfast, and then we hit the track. A lot of todays walk was along the side of a fairly busy country road, we shared the road with cars, trucks (full of manure), tractors and harvesters. This is an established pilgrims route and many of the drivers slowed down and/or took a wide berth.
We walked down country roads lined with sunflowers, corn, corn, and more corn. It seems like the major agricultural crop for the area.
The guide book advised that one of the towns we walked through would have no services, well they need to update. The town had very nice, clean, well maintained public toilet block, along with a sink to rinse clothes, as well as seats and tables in the shade and drinking fountain. All you need for an impromptu picnic, if you had known. A very welcome pit stop.
Stork nests are appearing, its not nesting season so they are empty. You can see from the photo the many nests in the high voltage power towers. The storks come back to the same nests year after year.
We walked through what appeared to be an abandoned town with a huge mansion that could have once been a monastery, it had a church attached. Maybe we could buy the entire town.
Our pit stop for tonight is an old hotel attached to a service station. Pretty basic, but we have four walls, a bed, balcony and ensuite toilet, but no aircon.
Russ and Jan's Camino 