Calzadilla de Tera to Mombuey

I had a very rough night, the floor wasn't very comfortable, and one of the Spanish guys snored very loudly, it was also hot, so, I was awake long before my alarm went off. Everyone else was late in getting up and we didn't leave until 0645. Naturally, the cafe in Olleros de Tera was closed so we plodded on.

the walk was quite nice, the sky was overcast and there was a cool wind blowing. when we got to the bit before the dam, before Villar de Farfōn, we had followed the online map but a brand new fence had been put up right across what was obviously a path or what used to be a path. The fence was broken in one place so we climbed over it to find ourselves confronted by another fence. There was a bit where the ground had subsided, so there was just enough room to slip under it.

When we got to Villar de Farfon we stopped for coffee and biscuits provided free (donations welcome) by a couple of Christian missionaries from South Africa. It was both amusing and slightly cringy to hear the guy try to shoehorn religious terms into the conversation. Still I left a donation.

We plodded on to Rionegro only to find that every cafe bar was closed, and the restaurant wouldn't be open until 1330, by which time we wanted to be in Mombuey. Just then I remembered that there was a vending machine in the albergue - it was open - so we scraped together as many coins as we could and got some snack that kept us going. The walk to Mombuey was tedious but went by quickly enough, for which I was glad, we were doing about 30km today so I was delighted when we got the the edge of town to the truckstop/hotel with a restaurant attached.

The albergue is one of the most basic I have seen so far, but it was veyr clean and had everything we needed. we made a big mistake going up the street to a cafe bar for dinner. It was the worst meal i have ever eaten and in fact i left most of it, and the owner was extremely rude.

We couldn't find a celio in the albergue so we got our credentials stamped at a cafe near the albergue.

Two spanish cyclists arrived, i think we will be long gone by the time they get up in the morning, they seemed to be very impressed by the number of stamps on my credential and took photos of it.

It started raining by the time we went to bed, it could be a damp walk tomorrow. Czytaj więcej