7 and 8 June, 2010 - Casar de Caceres

I decided to do one last day of walking - my feet had healed after getting some good advice in Torremejia to get some compeed patches, after regular bandaids were turning my feet to pulp. Set off about 7am, easy walk out of Caceres on pedestrian/cycle way.
After a difficult stretch along the road, the camino goes onto a quiet track through farmland.
The walk into Casar de Caceres is lovely, through a another typical tree-lined pedestrian and bicycle way.
In Casar de Caceres I ran into Hans and Frano, the Germans. Great to walk into my final destination to a big hug from Frano. The people in the coffee shop outside the Albergue acted like it happens all the time.
In Casar de Caceres there are famous cheese shops, a great churrio cafe down towards the lake and a famous bus station - google it if you are interested in architecture.
In the morning we had coffee and churrios, then got the bus back to Caceres. Buses go every half an hour, Monday to Saturday, and cost about 1.20c.

The famous bus station.
	Lost in Translation - German to Spanish, Spanish to English, English to German

The End - Frano and Hans are getting the bus to Salamanca, I am getting the bus to Sevilla. Two other pilgrims we met at the bus station who had done a "short" walk from Merida. While we were waiting for the bus a change in the weather came through, and it was considerably cooler and overcast. The previous week had been quite a heat wave, much hotter than usual for late May/early June, apparently.

I am already plotting my camino for next year - I hope to leave Australia close to Easter in late April and fly to Madrid then get the bus to Merida and walk from there to Salamanca. I have a rendezvous with a friend in Istanbul in early May, so really want to include some more of the Camino. But then the Camino Norte looks good as well. 2012 maybe. I am hooked.