Had breakfast at the albergue after a rather disturbed night. The man in the bed next to mine had - from what I later understood he been hit by diarrhea. He was up every hour, switched on his head light and woke everybody including me. It is bad enough with diarrhea but why switch on a strong head light every time? A bad night.
A bit un-concentrated I walked through Zamora. I forgot to draw money from the "cajero automatico" (ATM) but made my way out from the city with the help of the GPS. It worked all right.
Soon I was out on the meseta, this time on my own. It's like navigating the open sea.
I needed to talk to SP in Borås so I ended up at the square of "Roales de Pan". Pero, no pan = no bread, there was no bar to be seen, so I had to sit on the main square and talk to Borås. It worked.
I passed my comrade from Vittoria on the way out but wanted to walk alone today. After an hour or two on the endless meseta I reached a site where new roads were built. I have a fairly new map in my GPS, but it didn't show the new motorway. It is like this all over Spain, new motorways everywhere.
I had to pass various building sites but did choose to follow the main - la carretera - until I reached Montamarta. I took a road in but was stopped by a man who pointed out the direction of the albergue, but I said that I first wanted to see the village. The village was a disappointment. Nothing! And we should not even mention a cajero automatico.
So I walked back and almost missed the albergue since the was no sign at the roadside, but a pilgrim like young man in the garden. I asked him and he said it was the albergue. So I went in, marked a bed and then went out to the bar nearby to have something to eat. They did not take credit cards!
I discussed with the lady behind the counter about returning by bus to Zamora and fix the money there. She said it was possible, but after a while asked me if I had considered walking the roadside to Tábara. They had a cajero automatico. The roadside was considerably shorter than the camino. I had not considered that possibility. And when I got back to the albergue I checked the map in my mobile phone. And yes, 28 km to Tabora instead of 48 km along the Camino. Quite acceptable (but boring). Thanks Pythagoras!
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