Date	Jun 20
Today's Distance:	16 miles / 26 km
Route and Stats	Route Video
Total This Camino:	140 miles.
Total All Caminos:	1540 miles
Lodging:	Municipal Albergue @ $ 20
Total Lodging:	$ 296
Buses / Trains:
Total Buses / Trains:	$ 23
Food:	$ 5
Total Food:	$ 196

Meaningful Moment

The municipal albergue in Puente Duero is actually run by contract with the Jacobean Assn of Valladolid. Our host, Arturo, was charming, gracious, entertaining and most welcoming.

By the time we leave tomorrow, we will have had three meals here. Arturo fed us a light lunch, and will serve up a hearty dinner and a breakfast ready in the morning.

The albergue is very nice looking with a full garden from which our hosts picks the vegetables for the salad.

Random Thought of the Day

Today's 16 miles of hiking felt much easier on the body.

Tomorrow we strike into Valladolid - 7 mile hike, which makes it a rest day - to go to the house of Cervantes and then a museum of modern Spanish art. The museum is a former clustered monastery

On the Road / Notable memories

Same terrain as previous days (farm pastures, some range, lots and lots of pine grove/forest.

So I took pictures of markers along the way

Running shoes worked well today. No issue with the right Achilles although a neighboring muscle is tender.

	"MP" is Latin and stands for "Millia Passum". The number represents a unit of distance from one Roman city/town to another, just like we use mile markers today.
	Camino de Santiago marker. 490 km ( 294 miles to Santiago de Compostela )
	Private land; no hunting
	Yellow arrow indicating what direction to follow to stay on the Camino Madrid.
	"Via Pecuaria": Trails/routes used to move herds asking grazing areas or to market
	Taking advantage of mushrooms is prohibited. Picking is prohibited.


	Bike trail marker
	Picnic spot next to Rio Adaja

	In Italian: Camino de Santiago. I don't know why it's in Italian.
	Monument to Pilgrims on the Camino Madrid

	Municipal Albergue at Puente Duero
	Donations only. Much more of a communal feeling that either govt run or privately run places.
	We had a great experience here of 'welcoming'.
	Lots of character, inside and out.
	Arturo and Deb concocted a super delicious Spanish tortilla. I did the dishes.

Date	Jun 19
Today's Distance:	15 miles / 24 km
Route and Stats	Route Video
Total This Camino:	124 miles.
Total All Caminos:	1524 miles
Lodging:	Muni Albergue @ $ 10
Total Lodging:	$ 276
Buses / Trains:
Total Buses / Trains:	$ 23
Food:	$ 16
Total Food:	$ 191

Meaningful Moment

Yesterday when we started hiking it was 70° and by the end of the hike it had climbed to the low 90s.

Today when we started hiking it was in the mid 50s and was in the high '70s when we ended hiking.

What a difference 15° makes. Hiking is easier by far. We have more energy at the end of the day. We cover more territory in the morning.

In addition to the temperature, the weather cooperated by having oh I'd say about 50% cloud cover.

Completely changes one's attitude.

Random Thought of the Day

In Alcazarén we had a really nice bartender when we went out for dinner. Seemed like she would do just about anything for us.

It was the only bar open on a Sunday night ... Thank goodness it was open. Deb had pork slices and I had beef. Huge protein boost.

Although we had a few periods where we were walking through farm fields, most of today was all about pine forests.

Today was the first day in this entire Camino that in the evening, I put on a long sleeve shirt and Deb put on a coat when we went to dinner.

On the Road / Notable memories

About 3 mi into our 15 mi hike today, my right heel, possibly Achilles, started acting up. By the end of the day it was pretty sore.

So tomorrow I'm going to be switching from the Keene hiking sandals back to my trail running shoes. Most likely the real cause is all the sand that I've been walking in for the past 2 or 3 days.

Walking around Alcazarén after dinner at the bar and checking all the crane nests on the two churches.

Very common sight here to see crane nests on the church steeples.

	Some of the different types of landscapes on today's stage of the Camino Madrid.
	Farm land
	Pine grove. Resin production is big business here.

	Shade trees