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Stage 1. Alicante to Orito. 24kms
This year's Camino, de la Lana has started well. So far then, all trains to Birmingham airport were cancelled due to a broken down train on the line so I had to rush to catch my plane in an Uber taxi. Then, due to a family fight between drunks on the plane, we had to wait for 30 minutes in Alicante until the Spanish police came to arrest them. So far, I've realised that I have forgotten a towel, a spoon, hairgel and a spare pair of glasses - my only pair of distance glasses was left under a tree about 7.5 Kms from Orito. Fortunately, my eyesight is pretty good without them! One chap I walked with took my photo, and interestingly, it recorded the exact location! So, I know where they are to the inch! And Wikilocs won't work on my new P20 Pro phone!!
I stayed in the pension Milan in Alicante, a perfectly good private room with shower for €20, and 100m from the C6 bus stop in Alicante, behind an Irish Pub. I left here about 8.30am, walked to the Basicila dear Santa Maria, took a few photos then spent the next few hours walking out of Alicante. Then there are two hours of quarries, cement works and rubbish dumps. It smells bad at times. It seems a mostly gentle uphill trek and mostly road, until the last three hours before Orito, when it is uphill a lot but mostly through a kind of moon landscape. Fortunately, it was bone dry but I can't imagine it would be much fun if were raining - a lot of mud would cling to your shoes! My glasses as I said are about 7.5kms from Orito by the way, under a nice tree for stopping, by the side of the Camino path! Can't miss them.
The albergue in Orito is okay. It's €15, there's no WiFi either in the albergue or in Bar Nuevo, which is right next door. It took an hour to get let in, as the bar phoned someone, who took a while to arrive. The albergue doesn't have a kitchen, and the one working shower is unisex, but doesn't have a door!! There were only a few of us here so no problem, but you might want to think about going a bit further along the trail. I was tired so stopped and to be honest, it is fine for a night. The bar is nice with a good range of food.
On day one, there are no injuries to report in today's 24km hike. The body is a little tired but all okay. Who knows what day two will bring - perhaps my glasses will find there way back to me eventually!
This year's Camino, de la Lana has started well. So far then, all trains to Birmingham airport were cancelled due to a broken down train on the line so I had to rush to catch my plane in an Uber taxi. Then, due to a family fight between drunks on the plane, we had to wait for 30 minutes in Alicante until the Spanish police came to arrest them. So far, I've realised that I have forgotten a towel, a spoon, hairgel and a spare pair of glasses - my only pair of distance glasses was left under a tree about 7.5 Kms from Orito. Fortunately, my eyesight is pretty good without them! One chap I walked with took my photo, and interestingly, it recorded the exact location! So, I know where they are to the inch! And Wikilocs won't work on my new P20 Pro phone!!
I stayed in the pension Milan in Alicante, a perfectly good private room with shower for €20, and 100m from the C6 bus stop in Alicante, behind an Irish Pub. I left here about 8.30am, walked to the Basicila dear Santa Maria, took a few photos then spent the next few hours walking out of Alicante. Then there are two hours of quarries, cement works and rubbish dumps. It smells bad at times. It seems a mostly gentle uphill trek and mostly road, until the last three hours before Orito, when it is uphill a lot but mostly through a kind of moon landscape. Fortunately, it was bone dry but I can't imagine it would be much fun if were raining - a lot of mud would cling to your shoes! My glasses as I said are about 7.5kms from Orito by the way, under a nice tree for stopping, by the side of the Camino path! Can't miss them.
The albergue in Orito is okay. It's €15, there's no WiFi either in the albergue or in Bar Nuevo, which is right next door. It took an hour to get let in, as the bar phoned someone, who took a while to arrive. The albergue doesn't have a kitchen, and the one working shower is unisex, but doesn't have a door!! There were only a few of us here so no problem, but you might want to think about going a bit further along the trail. I was tired so stopped and to be honest, it is fine for a night. The bar is nice with a good range of food.
On day one, there are no injuries to report in today's 24km hike. The body is a little tired but all okay. Who knows what day two will bring - perhaps my glasses will find there way back to me eventually!
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