Sunday 17 June 2012

Day 22 TO Day 24 Aljucen to Caceres


Day 22                          Aljucen to Aldea del Cano               35 kms 
Up at 4 am ‘cause today was our longest day yet, 35kms. We managed to do it in 7 hours. I’m pretty proud of ourselves. We arrived in Aldea del Cano pretty unscathed, even though we attempted to hitchhike once. After 15 minutes standing on a hot highway we decided to walk the last 7 kms. We must be getting used to the heat because it was quite tolerable, I’m not sure I could have said that 3 weeks ago.
Still a lot of Roman stuff along the way, bridges and even parts of the original Roman road. 
This camino is called “Via de la Plata”, not because it was used to transport silver (Plata means silver in Spanish) but because it was flat like plateau. The walks are pretty flat at this point.


 We are again staying at a fantastic “Casa Rural”.  I won’t post a picture but it is the old Moorish style designed house with an inner courtyard but….. the best thing is the beds are long!! Most of the beds we have slept in here are short, even for me and I am only 5’5”.

Day 23                                    Aldea del Cano to Caceres                                    22kms
I’m tired again. But, you have to think.. what we are doing is like walking a half marathon every day. We pushed ourselves hard yesterday, so today we are paying for it. It is a good tired though.
Caceres is another great little city. It has the same history as all the other surrounding cities
1.-started by the Romans
2.-after the fall of the Roman Empire the Visigoths took over
3.-then the Moors took over
4.-then the Christians finally conquered





It too has all the combinations of all the different types of architecture.

















Day 24        Sick Day  

Oh dear.. I haven’t been this sick in ages.  I am not sure if it was food poisoning or a bad case of the flu but it was a pretty bad night. Hopefully after some rest today I will feel better and we can put in another long day tomorrow.
The good news about today is that Max has won the Canadian National Title for Mountain biking again .  What a kid!! Olympics here we come.

 

 



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