Arévalo to Medina del Campo

Sunrise over a puddle

Palacios de Goda - El toro

Three generations of cheese makers using sheep's milk

Weathervane in Castilla

Can't help it, I just love the poppies

Ataquines - unscheduled stop, off the Camino because of the rain

The Day of the Thistles

Sheep walking

 The Zapardiel River in Medina del Campo - not even a stream after all the rain.

Castillo de la Mota

Villa de la Ferias

Cousin Rooms

Queen Isabela lived and died here

Gotarrendura to Arévalo

 Early morning stretch 

Today was pine forest day - French Maritime Pine to be precise

The sap is used in health supplements

Mistletoe

Each village on the Camino has a welcome sign, all are different but many show the scallop shell which is a sign of pilgrimage 

Arévalo - Plaza de la Villa with the 'Four Spout Fountain'

Queen Isabela grew up in Arévalo

Castilla de Arévalo

Viva España

Ávila to Gotarrendura

St Vicente Gate at night

Sunrise over City Walls of Ávila

The Four Posts - formerly a Roman Temple

City Walls

Donkeys for sale - tempting for the backpacks.

Signpost for fountain ahead in Navillo de San Leonardo - just as well as there was to be no bar or café there.

We were definitely out of our comfort zone walking through this cattle herd. Kevin didn't realise I always kept him between me and the toro con los cojones who was only 30ft away from us.

Cardeñosa

We have been accompanied by swallows and house martins throughout the Camino, chattering and swooping all around us.

Road of Death and Life

El Camino

El Camino

Fields of rape

Peñalba de Ávila

El Camino

Three stages of a Musk Thistle

Church ruins

Gotarrendura welcome - a nun because it is the birthplace of St Teresa

 

Pilgrim Albergue

 Courtyard with kitchen, laundry and dormitory with bunkbeds. We are sharing with two other pilgrims from England and Denmark.

Road named after Irish author who wrote about the life of St Teresa

Habemus Papam