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Day 10. Thursday, 01/06/2023. Torrefresneda to Mérida

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  26 km.   5:30h.   Plus pauses: 55, 40 and 20 min, plus the occasional stop just standing still, thus giving my feet a rest After a first stop in San Pedro de Mérida at 9.8 km on top of the only hill where we had a delicious gigantic churro now a second stop (another 6.7km) in Tujillanos, drinks only, no food here. An amazing church with a group of storks - they are nesting on every protruding part and there is one nest on top of the steeple - the chief stork??? The landscape continues the same. The camino is road all day long, not black asphalt, but pebbly concrete, I think. See photo. And this road goes parallel, more or less distant, to the motorway all the way to Mérida. We have another 10 km to go. End of pause….. Made it! To go back to the end of pause, see above, after coming out of Tujillanos we did not have to go back to the road going along the motorway, but came to a nice sandy track through the fields and olive groves all the way to Mérida. However ...