Wednesday the 13th of March 2013, day 22
Today we start walking but instead of following the beach and all its built up apartments and hotels we walk about 2 streets inland and its a different world ...... we are in farm land, maybe 1/2 km to 1km inland ..... quiet roads, narrow but little traffic. Its coolish today, low teens temperature wise and little wind, land dead flat and walking on paved road.
We make good time and cover almost 30km by lunch time, its about 1.30pm, we find a small country bar with tables out front so stop and have lunch with a, you guessed it a beer or two. The bar owner tells us there is a good hotel just down the road with comfortable but inexpensive rooms .... so after lunch off we march, its more like 4km down the road and get there about 4pm, closest town is Pego.
The farm land here looks like its set up for rice or cotton growing with irrigation channels everywhere.
Hotel is comfortable though sparse, basic but clean and friendly hosts, food is good and it turns out that the bar owner and the host are related, surprise, surprise.
Great diner and and a few vino's, its cold tonight so sat by the open fire. We are the only guests so seem to get special treatment. Our hosts are totally bewildered by the fact that we are walking. They understand the Camino thing but that what we are doing is a bit circuitous to get we are going.
Well off to bed, I think we walked some 33-34km today.