Granada Sports & Outdoors

Granada is now in the premier league!!!! The whole city turned out to celebrate!
While in Granada you might now get the chance to watch them play Barca or Real Madrid. The stadium is in a district easily accessible by bus.
Tickets to watch Granada CF football team are a lot cheaper than for similiar level clubs in, for example, England. They play alternate Sundays, kickoff at 5pm. Wear red and white!

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Our last days walking was a fairly short one and only slightly undulating.

Other than the first 6k to Trujillanos which was on a service road, the rest
of the route was along reasonably busy, fairly major roads. There is a new
(Refurbished and renamed (Hostal La Baranda)) to get a coffee / lunch in
Trujillanos and then it's only another 5k until you start to walk into the
outskirts of Merida.

All facilities in Merida including a (Reported) Refugio de Perigrino.

Merida is the end of The Camino Mozárabe, the route now joins The Via de la
Plata and you can either join this at The Old Roman Puente or The Roman
Aqueduct.

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Another confusing day, we tried to follow the route as per the Confraternity
guidebook for the route which didn't involve wading across The Rio Bordalo,
but ended up it the village of Yelbes (Which is on the route that does
involves wading over The Rio Bordalo!!)

So it was a case of heading across country to Santa Amalia to pick up our
intended route, this being a little harder than it sounds because of all the
irrigation ditches in the area, never-the-les we eventually managed it and
had a delightful days walking on a mixture of quiet roads and service roads
/ tracks.

Slightly undulating with a couple of longish stretches alongside fairly busy
roads, we ended up having several coffee / lunch stops as there are
facilities in Yelbes, Santa Amalia and Torrefresneda.

We were able to get a room easily in the large Hostal Juan Porro in San
Pedro de Mérida (Slightly above the average rate of whet we had being
paying) and Lots of choice of bars / restaurants to take an evening meal.

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The shortest day of our Camino, a fairly level day, again walking on a
mixture of quiet roads and earthen tracks

We planned it as a short day both so that we could take a break and also so
that we could have a good look around the small town of Medellín which is
packed full of history, Both Roman and Moorish as well as it being the town
where Hernan Cortes was born.

Only one hotel in town, we pre-booked and it was just as well that we did as
it was "Officially" closed but the owners came and opened it up for us,
rented us a room and then left !! - It was Easter Sunday though !!

A couple of bars so we were able to get a bite to eat in the evening.

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Another short but nice slightly undulating day, again walking on a mixture of quiet roads and earthen tracks, The highlight of the day being the hill-top village of Magacela, This villages perches on top of a conical hill that towers over the flat plain so that you can see it from miles away.
Coffee here as well as at the village of La Haba (another 8k on)
Plenty of choices for both accommodation and restaurants for your evening meal in the large town of Don Benito

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Another short but nice slightly undulating day, again walking on a mixture of quiet roads and earthen tracks through some pretty countryside.
No Facilities en-route, so make sure that you have a good breakfast before leaving in the morning and pack plenty of water as well as Supply of snacks.
As this was Good Friday we went straight to the Ayuntamiento in Campanario and they kindly arranged for us to be accommodated in their Sports hall. (Free of charge)
Lots of choice of restaurants for your evening meal but we opted for one quite close to the Sports hall which was on the edge of town.

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Another short but nice levelish day, again walking on a mixture of quiet roads and earthen tracks. The bulk of the day the route takes you through “Reserva de los Berciales”, a nature reserve, so little traffic and a very pleasant days walking.
No Facilities en-route, so make sure that you have a good breakfast before leaving in the morning and pack plenty of water as well as Supply of snacks.
We arrived in Castuera on Maundy Thursday but found accommodation on our second attempt at Hotel Paraiso in the centre of town, this turned out to be a blessing as The Semana Santa parade went right past the hotel, so we were indeed privileged to get a birds eye view !!

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Back onto a slightly longer day, again on a mixture of quiet roads and earthen tracks, The last 8k being all slightly uphill on a minor road.
No Facilities en-route, so make sure that you have a good breakfast before leaving in the morning and pack plenty of water as well as Good Supply of snacks.
Both the only open Hostal and the Hotel in this small town were full but accommodation was found for us at the “Casa Parroquia” (Free of charge)
A couple of choices of restaurants to take your evening meal.