Almedinilla-Alcala la Real

Dear friends,
Today I rose early to press ahead with my allocation of kilometres, because popular opinion had it that it would be a hot day. I made up a route for the exit from the town, because I suspected that the real path gives a whole series of unnecessary twists and turns. I picked up the path later, and followed it to Las Pilas de la Fuente del Soto. I'd worked out another short cut here (you can tell I'm getting blasé or desperate) and I asked an aged woman sweeping her path whether I could cut up over the hill behind her house to rejoin the road. "Oh I don't really know" she said. "I've only just moved here". It doesn't matter who you ask - it could the very rocks of the earth - they will always say they're not from these parts.
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A wayfarer in Spain