San Nicolas del Real Camino

Town of about 12 when you count absolutely everyone and everything. Lovely little adobe Auberge that has a bar and Garden on the ground floor and a long attic broken in 4 room with bunks for the 20 or so pilgrims (www.alberguelaganares.es ) who brave the long walk in from Carrion de los Condes where we were last night.

The pilgrim´s trail out of Carrion de los Condes is a 18 km trek out along the fields with nothing (some one did set up an unexpected coffee stall at about km 12) but blue skies and mountains to the north. All the villages after Carrion were desperately small but we did stop for coffee and a tortilla espanol (eggs and potatoes). We took several of the alternate routes that climbed away from the rural roads and only got lost once, with a short detour through a oat field to get back to the track.

The trail tomorrow is again long and fairly isolated and we end up in Calzadilla de los Hermanos, another very small town.