Drinking with the Pilgrim

Villar de Mazarife to Astorga

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September 29th 2016
Geo: 42.6057, -6.81009After coffee and our breakfast of yogurt and fruit, we were the last pilgrims to leave the Albergue Tio Pepe at about 7:50. The dawn light was great for a picture of the church before heading out of town. This would be another 30+ kilometer day and we would be leaving the long, flat and pretty desolate Meseta scenery behind us. It became more rolling with irrigated corn f ... read more

Europe » Spain

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more