Today’s walk from Molinaseca to Cacabelos should have been a fairly easy walk for us, but given the difficult walk yesterday combined with the fact that our hotel was across the street from Saturday night party central (little sleep), it turned out to be a bit of a struggle.
The walk was only 14 miles over flat terrain, but we all hit the wall around the 12 mile mark and barely made it into Cacabelos. Lucky for us, the town had a great place to hang out which offered one of the best meals we had on the trip. I highly recommend the Moncloa Restaurant and hotel. Very nice folks and great local food and wine. We are now in Bierzo wine region of Spain and the scenery today was some of the best since we walked through Rioja several weeks ago.
If you are interested in this kind of stuff, you can visit the link below:
https://www.simplyspanishwine.com/blogs/regions/bierzo
Another highlight of the trip was visiting the Knights Templar castle in Ponferrada. Lots of locals dressed in medieval garb.
We saw our Dutch friend Tony briefly on the trail and walked with him for a couple kilometers.
We also reached another milestone when we crossed the 200 km to go sign. So, less than 120 miles to go. Two (hopefully) easy days coming up. Things are looking good to finish on the 11th.
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