Camino Photo of the Day: Onwards to Carrión de los Condes!
Once you leave Frómista, it’s a short day of 18.5 km to Carrión de los Condes. Much of the route is along the highway, which is never fun, and to me at least it seems a lot longer than the physical distance would suggest. Fortunately, there’s an alternate route: it’s marginally longer but a whole lot more pleasant. Whichever way you take, it’s absolutely vital that you spend the night in Carrión de los Condes. It’s one of the choke-points on the Camino, and probably the majority of pilgrims stay here.
Why? Because the close-knit villages of days past have now come to an end. After Carrión de los Condes, it’s 17.5 km to the next village – probably close to five hours without a place to get food or drink and with very little shade. Our challenge on this Camino was not the heat, though, it was the rain. And more specifically the flooding…
Date: 16 April 2016
Place: Leaving Frómista (Castilla y León, Spain)
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