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- 12 de out. de 2022
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 922 m
- EspanhaCastilla y LeónHontanas42°18’58” N 4°1’44” W
La Meseta
12 de outubro de 2022, Espanha ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
After the Pyrenees, the Meseta is the most talked about part of the Camino Frances, potentially because people hate it the most although some love it too. I have made it to La Meseta.
Meseta translates as Plateau although people talk about it as the plains. People also talk about it as though it's flat but today was far from flat and the ups and downs were no less torturous than before.
I met a Catholic priest from the US last night who was walking with his wife. We had a discussion about all the river rock on the path and my suggestion that it had something to do with a Spanish sense of humour and Catholic suffering requirements for a pilgrim. Luckily he agreed with my assessment.
I digress, again. So far I think the Meseta is a table plateau (given my altitude is around 900m) which has been eroded in plenty of places to create the valleys and unlike the previous Camino sections, the towns are hidden in the valleys near the water sources.
In summer the Meseta is hot, so hot pilgrims die here and this year many, many pilgrims had to skip this part of the Camino due to Europe's heat waves. Today we had a cool morning breeze but this afternoon was hot enough for me. This is wheat country and now that harvest is done the plateau is an endless grey and straw colour. The soil is grey and where they have started plowing, full of rocks. In most part it's still the ends of the cut wheat.
The Meseta will be my home for more than two hundred kilometres and take me through Leon and out the other side. As mentioned before, this is the most often skipped part of the journey. Today I would happily have jumped on a train to Leon so time will tell.
Two ladies staying in tonight's Albergue are both from Arizona. The albergue is in the middle of nowhere on the plateau. It reminds them of the deserts at home. It's a fairly empty Albergue tonight and I find it interesting that an Aussie and some gals from Arizona feel at home in the middle of nowhere. Many people on this planet do not.
I think I've finally found Spanish flies. Bugger. Though it does make me feel like home, or at least the years of my life I spent on the mainland. Another reason to love Tassie, so few flies.Leia mais
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