Since Santa Maria la Real de Nieva, we have walked 25km per day through pine forests. Lovely to be a part of this but the path is mainly sand which makes the walking a bit arduous. Also, the trees are not tapped for their sap, like maples, but the bark is scraped off and a small bucket is affixed to collect. Like rings of a tree, we can see the different years that the tree made its donations.
The trees reminded me of that painting by Munch,
The Scream We were blown away by the castle in Coco and had the energy to spend time walking around. It’s a 15th century Gothic-Mudéjar red brink castle of crenellated towers and turrets around double square walls. It was built by the Moors before they were kicked out in 1492.
And it is now a college and we could hear students playing ping pong. What a place to study!
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