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Day 16 - Camino Francés: Belorado to Villafranca Montes de Oca · WCBH

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Good morning. Day 16. Back on the path. Weather.
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Iffy. It is a bit iffy, the weather, this morning.
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Cheryl and the weather deer. At this stage, it's holding off,
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but there's plenty of dark clouds around us. Not as long today, but 48 kilometres.
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Yesterday it was 23 kilometres in cold, wet, muddy conditions.
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Today is 14 in cold, muddy conditions, but net-braining at this stage, so fingers crossed.
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Started out this morning in Bellarado, headed to Villafranca Montes de Oca.
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We were in a hostel albergue last night, but had a dry room.
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But you can. There's definitely a difference.
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Noise is wonderful. I can't actually like the noise of the other guests.
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The Albergue hostels, you know, they'll be partying.
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There might be people in the smaller area, despite us having the private room.
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It was fine. It was lovely and lovely.
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Instead of feeling our legs this morning, if I feel heavy, When I say day 16
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today, our last rest day was in the emblem.
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We're due for another one soon. In fact, we sat down last night and tried to
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arrange our accommodation and have factored in one in the next few days. So today's 14.
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Tomorrow is 19 Ks. The day after is 19 Ks.
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Have a rest day in Virgos, and we've booked a nice apartment for the two nights in Virgos.
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Sherilyn seems to think that we're going to come through the cereal country
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soon, wheat fields, etc.
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I don't think we've seen a vineyard for about a day now, so there is a change in the agriculture.
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Walked through about three or four towns today before we get to our town,
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and our town's only 14 kilometres away, so that gives you an indication of how
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close these towns are at the moment,
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where other times, you know, you can span closer to the 20 kilometre mark before you hit a town.
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Now, the weather this morning when we got up was 2 degrees.
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I stuck my head out the window. It was 2 degrees and raining,
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so it is cold, but I must say two degrees and it not raining at the moment seems
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to be warmer than the four degrees yesterday and raining, you forget it.
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Probably has warmed up a little bit but really the rain could start at any moment now.
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So we're about a bit over two weeks in and I estimate that we've got about a
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bit under four weeks to go.
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So we're coming sort of not, We should be really well and truly into the swing
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of things and the routine of getting up and the fitness and all those sorts of things required,
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which I suppose we wanted to get to that stage where you see the kilometres
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and you think, yep, that's fine, we can get that done.
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Still really enjoying the challenge and the journey.
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Breakfast this morning was at a local cafe. Actually, the further we walk it,
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the cheaper it's getting, which is nice.
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Because everything's in euro,
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so, you know, the Australian dollar to euro pretty much double the price.
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Cheryl and I had the tortilla. Jan had a croissant.
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We each had a hot drink. And that came in at 11 euro something. think.
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So about the $20, $22 mark in Australian dollars. So that's not too bad for a breakfast.
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We're just sitting on a park bench in a town called Villa Villam Bistia.
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Our town starts with a villa. So hopefully it means we're getting closer to
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our town. Villa, Villa, Villa.
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It's cold, isn't it? And the cold weather really seizes up my right hip.
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It's not warming up so far, so the hip's in a bit of pain.
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But just sitting down and looking at the back of my long pants,
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my tracksuit pants that I'm walking in, athletic tracksuit pants, I'm covered in mud.
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Yesterday I had my rain pants on protecting them,
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but today I've elected not to have them on, So I have got a fair amount of mud
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up the back of my pants, like a bicycle riding through mud that doesn't have a mud protector on.
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That's what the back of my pants looks like.
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But anyway, seat on this park bench is helping out.
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I have not fallen over yet, I have not slipped over yet, and I think in the
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fallen over slipped over tally, Sherrilyn, what do you want?
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One. One. One fall over, but no injuries from it.
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Just a bit of a slip going down a concrete hill with a bit of loose gravel underneath.
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No way. Big loose stones. Big loose stones. And Chan?
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Six. You think you're at six? Fall in the shower, no, fall in the bathroom and
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two falling into a big ditch.
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What about the fallovers on day one? Oh, plus that one. So that's seven altogether.
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I think it's more than that. So anyway, under 10, aren't we? You're under 10.
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Have you fallen over four times in the bathroom?
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Maybe that's something not for the podcast. Anyway, hopefully we all stay on
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our feet today and hopefully this villa town that we're getting to is just over this next hill.
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Well, we arrived in Villafranca, Montes de Orca, just after midday, so we made good time.
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It was only 14 kilometres, but it is very cold here. We've checked in.
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It's a bit of a ghost town. It's Sunday.
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The only thing that was open when we arrived was a bakery. Lady was very kind
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in there. I was able to get a coffee.
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We're able to buy a couple of things there, a focaccia.
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A sweet biscuit and some salty
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corn things as well but that looks like
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it's all the food that we're going to have until we leave this town tomorrow
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at some stage in the morning but it is cold it's it's less than five degrees
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we've been able to warm up our room a little bit with a the old style oil heater
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but as soon as you step foot outside our room and you've got to go out to go to the bathroom.
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It's absolutely freezing cold, so I think we're going to bunker down in our
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room for the night, get some rest, try and stay warm, and then move on to our next town tomorrow.