Thursday, June 1, 2023

Walked into Mérida

Hello, everyone.  

Today, after yesterday's 27 km walk into Torremejia, we had a shorter 15.5 km walk into Merida. The sun was out at sun up and the sky remained clear all the way until almost 4 pm...when we were heading out of our hotel to the laundromat. While we washed clothes, it rained vigorously and slacked off just as we got the laundry folded. It's very obvious that the local area was having a dry spell, so I suspect that they're happy to see the moisture.

Merida is having a Roman fest this week. Lots of folks in all ages have dressed up as sorta-Romans and gone down to the tents and palisade by the Alcazaba to view the re-enacting and explaining of such things as Roman colognes, weaving, Roman weddings, and so on. Mostly explaining, but they all had copious amounts of visual aids to show. There were tents inside the (temporary) palisade set up as they might have been. 
Other Roman soldier kit items.

There were even some costumed fellows inside the Alcazaba with more tents and an eagle on a stick.

The Alcazaba was very interesting. A military site here actually goes back quite a way before the Moorish conquest. The Moors rebuilt the site with blocks taken from the former city wall, some of them ended up with carvings from their former use still visible.

We're going to have a rest day here to build up our energy after 9 or 10 days of walking.



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