Monesterio to Fuente de Cantos

20 kms and it was dry all day!

A day where we sort of walked where we were supposed to!

After checking various places online last evening we discovered a detour in case the river crossing deemed to be impossible. It would take no longer but did involve a fair bit of road walking.

Firstly we enjoyed the gravel/sandy farm tracks, spotting our first Iberico pigs - sows actually, who were happily rooting around but came to a call. Mostly the tracks were water/mud free with the odd exception but easy enough to cross over. Though once we left the borders of Monesterio we came to a more open terrain, less well maintained but passable.

Lots of wildflowers today and oh so many huge brown slugs, they really are disgustingly gross. Many tadpoles in the ditches, if they all make maturity the frog population will be huge. We also spotted a few puff ball mushrooms and several hairy caterpillars. Birds of prey much in evidence too.

We met some Dutch walkers that confirmed the river crossing was not an option so took the detour. It was a very quiet road, hardly any traffic but hard on the feet.

There seems to be a lot of solar panels in this area, great areas just covered in them. Im guessing the land has no agricultural use or panels are more lucrative.

Arriving in Fuente de Cantos we found a bar for a quick refresher and a sit down before hunting out our hotel.

Once checked in we decided to head straight for lunch which they served from 1:40 - a good idea as no sooner were we seated than it seemed the whole world arrived. We enjoyed the menu of the day which was €12 each and we had
Bread, glass of red wine, tuna salad, salmon (me), cuttlefish (him), cheesecake and coffee. I can understand why they were so busy.

Whilst having lunch we watched the weather forecast which made for grim viewing. The whole of southern Spain has been hit by storm Laurence and hard on its tail is storm Martin. Looks like we will be walking wet for the foreseeable after tomorrow. Great as we will be walking in the Barros, which translates to MUD.Read more