Executive decision time

We arrived at the albergue in Mataelpino about 4 pm 

There is wifi through the small community but it doesn’t really work. Our accommodation was lovely. 8€ (senior’s price) got us this:

Clean cotton sheets and pillow cases. 

We bought food at the little food store and used the microwave. A small, but satisfying dinner. 

Before we went to bed we tried to sort out all the various ways to get to Cercedilla (12km) by 11am for a train to Segovia. Taxi seems the answer. So it’s now 9am, we’ve had our breakfast at the bar and we are waiting for our taxi. The owner of the bar had to make three phone calls to secure a taxi. The first call said they could not come until tomorrow. 

The reason for all this non foot transport? We want rested legs to walk around Segovia. 

This route kind of reminds me of the Camino del Norte ten years ago. Not alot of pilgrims and the locals are not quite sure why we are walking through their towns. We did get a few “buen caminos” yesterday, from folks out walking, and one woman actually stopped her car on a bridge, leaned over to roll down the passenger window to yell her greeting. A good feeling.