Oliva de Plasencia

Another longish day. First after walking through the walled town and down over a medieval bridge we did 9km on the road to Carcaboso. There I had a huge cafe con leche - with sugar! I needed the sugar rush! 

Then the trail was mostly through farm land past paddocks with quite fat cows and calves. The cows have really impressive horns! Luckily the bulls we've passed are too full of grass to move much. They are enormous. Everything is lush and green and plants are bursting into flower. It'll be a different story in summer when everything here gets burnt to a crisp. I imagine the livestock are moved out of the province, which explains the "vía pecuaria" - stock roads.

It was pretty wet underfoot, but not too bad today, although we had to negotiate some streams which seemed to be higher than normal - stepping stones were in the middle of the creeks.

The day finished of with a 6km trudge to Oliva de Plasencia. The Albergue is great - single beds in a recently reformed 18th century farmhouse. There's even sheets! Clean ones! And to boot my blisters are healing.