6.9 miles
Half of the walk was quite unpleasant— in the rain and on the narrow shoulder of a busy undivided highway with cars and trucks zipping by at high speed. Fortunately, 19 out of 20 Spanish drivers do give pedestrians a wide berth! We were quite happy to leave the highway for a little used farm road albeit one with quite a few deep muddy puddles.
We entered Casar de Caceres on a pleasant tree-lined walkway with little panels identifying the trees. We were happily surprised to discover that the tree ”Siri” kept telling us was a ”chinaberry tree” was indeed a ”chinaberry tree.”
Casar de Caceres (population roughly 5,000) is famous for the Torta de Casar, a runny, somewhat smelly sheep’s cheese, that can be eaten with a spoon. I’m still working on developing a taste!
We took a taxi back to Caceres intending to have pasta and butter for dinner. Regrettably, our induction cooktop didn’t work forcing us to resort to Plan B: bread and cheese (torta de Casar, in fact) and tomatoes and cucumbers and strawberries.