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title: Day 21
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date: 2019-06-17 22:38:50 +0159
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tags: [camino,caminodesantiago,jakobsweg]
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Day 21 of trip
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Day Frómista to Carrión de los Condes. 18.88km according to app. 19.18km with Phone GPS (minor detour). Was walking quickly. Which Fitbit doesn’t like 🙂
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Weather: pleasant to warm
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Terrain/: pretty damn flat, easy going
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Shocked I only woke at 6:40, was hard to get to sleep
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Bolted along. A little over 5.5km an hour for 3 hours 26 minutes, with only 4 minutes rest / stopping for photos.
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It was a very boring walk, weirdly not many on the path, only passed a handful. Road was very long and straight, walking right beside it virtually the whole way. (I missed that there was an alt route). It kind of does the head in after a while. Esp when Fields are mostly yellow and only bits of green.
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Arrived way to early at Albergue. While they let me in at 10:50, I wasn’t able to check in I’ll 11:30 (I was first).
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Was left confused a couple of times when a nun came and asked me a question only in Spanish. Thankfully google translate eventually saved me (she wanted to know if a blanket was mine).
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Lovely place, and 6€ for a single bed was great.
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After showering, washing clothes and stuff I wandered around the corner and had a breakfast at 1pm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Then met up with Erica, Ben, Karen & Susan for lunch (nice paella but seemed expensive). Showed them the ad for a horse & cart ride to the next village/town which interested them.
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After that I just ambled around a bit, visited the supermarket & got bits for tomorrow.
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I spent a bit of the afternoon hiding in the dining area away from the heat and honestly from people too. Had been feeling moody/moopy all day and didn’t fancy really interacting.
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In the evening I attended fully my first mass of the trip, had a pilgrims blessing and was given a paper star to carry with me.
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After church I ambled some more and I bumped into Ben, Susan & Karen again. Like a bad penny I keep turning up. We talked for a bit & got a class of wine (with a small free tortilla snack) and I got Ben to reserve me a spot on this horse & cart.
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While it’s now 20€ and not the 15€ on the digital book I’m using, it’s seems like a unique thing to do. I could get the bus if I _really_ wanted, or I’m happy to walk the 17km stretch to the next town … but this is different.
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I dashed back to make sure I was in for 21:30 just in case they closed the gate early. As it is when the nuns came to check in at 22:05, 3 people where missing from the room. One arrived at 22:24, the others are still missing.
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From what I’ve read some of the albergues here are shut and won’t let you in. So no idea what is going to happen for the missing 2.
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