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Traveler Camino Mozárabe 2023
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- Apr 28, 2023
- ☁️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 377 m
- Spain Andalusia Alboloduy Albolodúy El Peñón del Moro 37.033097, -2.62043737°1’59” N 2°37’14” W
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Day 3: Santa Fe de Mondújar to Alboloduy
April 28, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
A 16.3km enjoyable day marked by a few exciting sharp ups and downs, which we remembered from last year.
The coolness of the morning was quickly replaced by the heat as the sun rose in the sky. We stopped a few times to rest.
Last year, we had stayed in Santa Cruz de Marchena. For a change, we had decided to push on and stay at Alboloduy. Actually, we didn't have much of a choice: we're walking in a bubble of 15 pilgrims, so we were assigned two beds in Alboloduy, as Santa Cruz de Marchena was full.
The evening was lively, with a nice mix of nationalities: England, New Zealand, Serbia, Spain and France. In addition to us Swiss Australians 😊Read more
Traveler Wow, Andrew. 16.28 km with more than 500 meters of elevation gain! That’s a big day.
4/29/23Reply
Traveler A big day indeed, Elaine. Last year we walked to Santa Cruz de Marchena, which made our day 3km shorter. This year, we took our time and were the last ones at the albergue. Our Camino angel Nely had requested that the hospitalera save a lower bunk bed for Rachel 😊
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Traveler Yay for Nely’s thoughtfulness!
4/29/23Reply
Traveler Nely is just the best ❤️❤️
4/29/23Reply
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Camino Mozarabe
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- Feb 8, 2024, 10:13am
- ☀️ 13 °C
- Altitude: 389 m
- Spain Andalusia Alboloduy Albolodúy El Peñón del Moro 37.034107, -2.62225537°2’3” N 2°37’20” W
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Day 6
Santa Fe to Alboloduy
February 8 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Debi: Today was a lot of climbing (3 peaks) with some steep downhills. Only about 15 km, but that took 5 hours, with breaks. It is a dry rugged landscape unlike anything I have seen. We also walked alongside many orange groves, and sampled a few. We were impressed by how well we are already adapting to the altitude and climbs. Another good day. Not sure why G chose to focus on food, other than we didn’t have much to eat today and arrived at our destination pretty hungry.🤤

Gerard: Started with coffee and tostada. The bar owner asked me what I wanted. I am used in other parts of Spain to get toasted bread with cheese and marmalade on the side so that’s what I asked. Apparently it is common here to toast the piece of bread with the cheese in the oven. So I got this morning a piece of baguette with marmalade and melted cheese on top. It was delicious….. :-) Today was a shorter walk and at the end we had a late lunch in a cafe. Debi ordered a salad and i got meat and fried potatoes. When it was brought to our table debi eyeballed at my potatoes. The waitress saw that and she asked if debi wanted some too, which she did. Again delicious. Today’s walk was fine.Read more
Debi Brock Today was a lot of climbing (3 peaks) with some steep downhills. Only about 15 km, but that took 5 hours, with breaks. It is a dry rugged landscape unlike anything I have seen. We also walked alongside many orange groves, and sampled a few. We were impressed by how well we are already adapting to the altitude and climbs. Another good day. Not sure why G chose to focus on food, other than we didn’t have much to eat today and arrived at our destination pretty hungry.🤤
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Debi Brock Almond blossoms
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Traveler Beautiful!
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Traveler Spain and Morocco 2023
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- Oct 7, 2023
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 377 m
- Spain Andalusia Alboloduy Albolodúy El Peñón del Moro 37.033103, -2.6206237°1’59” N 2°37’14” W
Day 5
Almeria to Rioja to Alboloduy
October 7, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Today got off to a good start, but didn’t finish up as planned.
First day anxiety had me up early and walking at 7am. The way is very well signed with lots of yellow arrows to lead you out of Almeria. Past the football stadium, and into another suburb before the sunrise. Some river bed walking then through another small town. Then back to the river bed via some date palms.
I knew when the Osbourne Bull came in site I was close to my albergue in Rioja. Osbourne Bulls were constructed along highways as advertising for a sherry company with an English name.
I found the albergue but one problem - no water. Took a while to get the story, but a pipe had burst and nothing will be fixed until next week. Santa Fe de Monduhar has no room - there is a festival on this weekend.
This being a great community camino, Mercedes picked me up in her car and drove me to Alboloduy. I will miss a stage but never mind. Lovely albergue here.Read more
Traveler Thank goodness for the Camino Angels of the Asociación Jacobea de Almería-Granada! 😊
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Laurie Reynolds Camino Mozarabe April 2018
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- Apr 14, 2018, 8:11pm
- ☀️ 15 °C
- Altitude: 380 m
- Spain Andalusia Alboloduy Albolodúy 37.031857, -2.61911737°1’55” N 2°37’9” W
Day 7
Walk to Alboloduy
April 14, 2018 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Only 24 km today but it was a long day. Not sure what made it so hard, but there were a couple of killer descents. And the landscape is pretty punishing.

We arrived at our destination in time for a menu del dia in a decent restaurant. Then after shower and washing clothes we walked above the town to see the whitewashed church (which must have been a mosque originally, given its dome) and take in the views.

No dinner for this pilgrim, I am headed to bed.Read more
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