The day started well. Walked up a fine conifer forrest, that reminded me about the forests in the Basque countries. Then a bit more mixed.Passed the crossroad towards “Grimaldo” and then everything rolled on until a cross road towards “Rio Lobo”. Big handmade signs said that the routing of the camino had been changed and now passed through “Rio Lobo” with a handwritten sign saying that the camino had been changed to pass through Rio Lobo. Unfortunately I had seen such signs before, where a village or an owner to a private albergue wanted more pilgrims and had changed the routing of the camino themselves.
I believed that this was the case also here so I continued the old route. At yet another crossing even more signs with new arrows pointing left and crossed over old arrows pointing right. I continued to the right and followed the track in the GPS and after a while followed a major water channel. Continued all the way to a gate locked with a big padlock that blocked the old camino. I sat down to think.
After a while came another two persons that I had met before and that I had understood was two American veterans from Afghanistan. We decided to navigate around the blocked part of the camino. I took the lead with the GPS that had a decent topo map downloaded. Using small field roads and after a while we arrived at what we first interpreted as a railway bridge when we saw it from underneath. But it proved to be an aqueduct for a watering channel.
After a big detour using a number of small roads that added kilometers we got back to the old road and soon were up at the walls of “Galisteo” a magnificent ring wall. When we arrived to the albergue and med the others it proved that the camino really was rerouted via “Rio Lobo”. Pity just that there was no official signs showing that only those handmade ones.
Dinner together with the other pilgrims and then time for sleep after having called Birgitta and Anna
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