From 0679bc0aed4c07f5907b0431c55e09fafbd9625d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert McGovern Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:39:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Day21 updated --- _posts/2019-06-17-Day21.md | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2019-06-17-Day21.md diff --git a/_posts/2019-06-17-Day21.md b/_posts/2019-06-17-Day21.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..239bc26 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-06-17-Day21.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +layout: single +author_profile: true +read_time: true +share: true +related: true +title: Day 21 +date: 2019-06-17 22:38:50 +0159 +tags: [camino,caminodesantiago,jakobsweg] +--- + +Day 21 of trip + +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 🙂 + +Weather: pleasant to warm +Terrain/: pretty damn flat, easy going + +Shocked I only woke at 6:40, was hard to get to sleep + +Bolted along. A little over 5.5km an hour for 3 hours 26 minutes, with only 4 minutes rest / stopping for photos. + +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. + +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). + +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). + +Lovely place, and 6€ for a single bed was great. + +After showering, washing clothes and stuff I wandered around the corner and had a breakfast at 1pm ‪¯\_(ツ)_/¯‬ + +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. + +After that I just ambled around a bit, visited the supermarket & got bits for tomorrow. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. +