BSVDLP Monestario to Fuente de Cantos

Not an especially interesting day or read for the blog.

Today it was the heat. We finished the walk before it hit the maximum but it sure as hell was hot enough. Two beers and two ice creams later with some rest in the shade and some of us were recovered.

Good walking path but not well Waymarked. Made a wrong turn and took a 20 minute or so detour but found a way back due to technology tools and then crossed a stream straddled with strategically placed stones.

At five mile point a rare treat: a bench. First one we have seen since we started.

Farming technology is not part of my New York background. Today we saw automatic seeding on the road with a truck that would spray random seeds across the field

On today’s walk there were no acorn trees and we passed a pig farm. Very smelly and very unpleasant. Not quite a factory farm.

A lot of unpleasant smoking in the cafe. Smoking and loud voices seem to be the norm here.

Nice simple hotel. Again very noisy in the bar. Did some planning for tomorrow to reduce heat exposure.

Afternoon snack of jamon, lomo, cheese took care of dinner needs. Dinner starts at 8:30. Went out to get yogurt and fruit for tomorrow’s walk. No decent fruit to be found anywhere. So far Spain has been a real disappointment for fruit. Even worse than RI in the Spring. Dinner salad and shrimp with garlic.