We left Carrion at 0545. I swear I've seen more sunrises in the last few days than in the rest of my life.

But they can be amazing,.

These are the mountains in the distance!
It was a long slog out of town, walking beside the highway.

This is an example of part ofthe field irrigation systems. But the area we walked through today was much drier than yesterday. There was much less of the obvious irrigation like sprinklers, concrete water channels etc.
All we had when we moved away from the road was this long, straight white track. Below part of it is some old Roman road, but now covered in white gravel, so you'd never know.
The Guardia Civil Run special patrols along this section of the Camino, because of the heat and lack of shade, shelter or water in this 17k section. During high summer, it can get up 40°C out there.
We did manage to find a food truck and got very good coffee and a dry croissant!
Apart from that it was a long day of 'Head down, grind it out' until we reached an Albergue at 17k. We stopped for coffee. Ruth also had cake!
Then another hot, roadside 6k walk, as we missed a more shady walk.
We ended up in Ledigos, whose buildings appear to be made of adobe (mud, straw) bricks, faced with a cement wash. I'll check it out later.
If you look closely, you can see the straw in the walls.
I was right. Adobe bricks have used in Spain since the Bronze Age. Follow this link
You will find more information than you really want to know about Adobe as a material and its building methods.

Picture of the Albergue.
Here we grabbed a drink of Estrella del Camino

and bumped into old and new friends.

Melissa

Alan, from Ireland, ex pub landlord, now non drinker and has discovered God.

The tall Korean guy, who has been around us for the past few days. We often meet him in supermarkets. I don't know his name.
We also met up with Sam, Geoffrey, Paul and Rose.
The room is good. We've showered and washed clothes and I'm writing the blog in the room.
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