Olivo de Sansol

Spending the night in this sweet room at a Casa Rural
View of Torres del Río from Sansol

Logroño

I've officially passed the 100 mile mark upon my arrival in Logroño. A fairly easy walk today of less than 15 miles. And it's cooled down quite a bit.
Outside Logroño

A cool gray morning. Welcome after the heat of the past week
Navarrete

Iglesia de Santa Maria de la Asunción
Today's walk - Logroño to Najera

Nájera

Leaving Nájera

582 km, or 362 miles to go!
Grañon

I walked these two sections today - about 18 miles. Tomorrow I'm going to give my feet a rest and just walk about 9 miles.
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Entering Castilla y León

Villafranca Montes de Oca

Hotel San Antón Abad
After walking around 18 miles for each of the last two days I was going to take it easy and just walk about 9 miles. However, when I arrived in Belorado, where I had planned toLes mer
Villafranca Montes de Oca

View of the church from my window. There is a huge shell inside that's used for holy water.
The sections I walked today

Montes de Oca

A pretty walk through the woods.
And a monument where bodies of people that were kidnapped and killed during the Spanish Civil War were discovered
Today's walk

Villafranca Montes de Oca to Atapuerca
A pretty easy walk of about 12 miles
Albergue Papasol, Atapuerca

After last night's hotel splurge I'm back to being more frugal. Only 5€ for a bed in this albergue
Another day, another Spanish sunrise

I'm headed to the big city of Burgos today. Just a 12.5 mile walk.
Burgos

Cathedral
The beginning of the Meseta

The Meseta is the high central plateau of Spain, and is mostly treeless. I'm putting my hands free umbrella/parasol to good use here. I think that it takes about a week to cross. Someone could make aLes mer
Today's walk

It was a long hot day. I probably should have stopped earlier. I'm pretty sure that the signs that said 5 km to Hontanas were wrong, because it sure felt more like 10 km. In total it was about 19.5Les mer
The tiny town of Hontanas

And the Paella I had for dinner. But I didn't eat all of that. I had dinner with a couple from Quebec, and two Korean girls.
Ruins of the Convento de San Anton

I left early this morning and came upon the ruins of this Convent that was built in the 12yh century just as the sun was coming up.
Fortunately, a group of people who had started walking at 3 am wereLes mer
Castrojerez

A nice place to stop for a chocolate croissant and some café con leche
Today's walk

12.6 miles Hontanas to Itero de la Vega
Though I ended up walking 15 miles because I left my poles at a rest stop and had to walk 1.2 miles each way to retrieve them. 😀
Itero de la Vega isLes mer
Leaving Itero de la Vega

Sharron MathansSweet it surely is