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[QUOTE="peregrina2000, post: 913222, member: 537"] [B]Day 5. Pedrosa/Santelices to Arija (27-28 km)[/B] Another pleasant day, nice scenery (one ascent with about 200 m elevation, mostly through green tunnels) some nice open field walking. Nothing spectacular but very comfortable, and a bit of road walking thrown in. [ATTACH]97198[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]97195[/ATTACH][ATTACH]97196[/ATTACH][ATTACH]97197[/ATTACH] Arija is probably my least favorite place on the Olvidado, but that’s just me. The original city was flooded to make the dam that created the reservoir of the Ebro. So what is there now is an “upper town,” newly created after the dam, and the “new lower town” created next to the water. A woman in the pharmacy in the upper town told me they flooded 400 houses, 8 churches, 2 chapels and a glass factory that made glass in the traditional artisanal way. Though the “upper town” is mostly newly built, I remember that the ayuntamiento seemed to be several centries old, so I am not sure whether they transported it up from below before the flooding or what the story is. The nucleus around the reservoir has the same feeling as the Embalse de Alcántara on the Vdlp, though it has more commerce. There is/was an albergue in Arija (google maps tells me it is permanently closed), but we stayed in [URL='https://www.booking.com/hotel/es/rural-la-piedra.en-us.html?aid=1715899;label=la-piedra;sid=0c942cbadca76d48434a83c9a99bd8fa;dist=0&group_adults=1&keep_landing=1&no_rooms=1&sb_price_type=total&type=total&'][B][I]Hotel Rural la Piedra.[/I][/B][/URL] My notes tell me it was 46€ for both with breakfast. There is a little grocery store down by the water. Since the hotel dining room didn’t open till 9, we went to the store to buy some food. I asked if we could get an extra plastic bag so we would have two “plates” for our meal. The little girl whispered something to her mother, then came back a few minutes later with some birthday party plates left over from her 9th birthday party. [ATTACH]97199[/ATTACH] A very short stage of about 8 km could be had with a stop in Soncillo at the [URL='http://elcaprichodeclemente.com/'][B][I]Hotel el Capricho de Clemente[/I][/B][/URL]. MikeJS has good reports. (And for those who like long stages, it looks like about a 35 km day starting in Pedrosa). 6.5 km beyond Soncillo would take you to Cilleruelo de Bezana with two hostals, the [URL='https://www.hostalmonica.com/'][B][I]Hostal Monica[/I][/B][/URL], or [B][I][URL='https://www.booking.com/hotel/es/hostal-el-escudo.html']Hostal el Escudo[/URL].[/I][/B] That’s hitting AJ’s goal of 15 almost right on the nose. There may be other options, but these seemed most logical. And I think some might want to stage it so that they avoid Arija and go further on the next day, where there are other possibilities. [/QUOTE]
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