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[QUOTE="Walkalong, post: 959632, member: 66863"] Well, there was that one night, alone in a cavernous albergue. I’ve had the experience of the clanging sound pipes can make in an old monastery, so it does not bother me. But in this case I had no light and the sensor the hall light was at the far end of the corridor which required walking fairly close to it to activate the light. It was the intermittent sound of something moving either in the corridor, washroom or laundry room that really got to me. It seemed to disappear when I entered the corridor and reappeared, randomly, when I was in my dorm. Perhaps an animal in the trash disposal that went quiet as I neared? An intruder? I wasn't afraid, but it was too late and impractical to leave, so I checked all the windows and doors and eventually convinced myself that it was some mechanical thing (that stopped when I searched for the source?), and eventually fell sleep. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever stay there again. Certainly not alone. The second was not really my story, but more about fellow peregrinos. I arrived at the Albergue in Viana do Castelo just as the dark clouds rolled in off the Atlantic to deliver heavy wind and rain. In the early evening, when the shuttered window in the kitchen suddenly flew open, it clearly spooked one of the peregrinos, to the point of startling some of the others. Hours later, after lights out as the last of us were falling asleep, the echo of noise down the long corridor woke me. It was growing louder and getting closer. Our companion who was spooked earlier was now awake and clearly terrified. You could hear a pin drop in the silence when the noise stopped outside the dorm door. When it opened, all eyes were on the shrouded figure completely blocking the only exit. I admit that the anticipation is always worse than the event, and I was a little startled. Something about old monasteries. Removing the poncho, revealed a 60-70 L backpack with rolled foamy extending well over a foot above the head of the woman carrying it, who came in out of the rain. In the morning I learned that she was walking home after 6-7 months walking the Frances, via Lourdes, then to Fatima, Lisbon, the Algarve, and now returning via the coastal route. She’d had quite a story and spoke very highly of the Portuguese, particularly women, who she characterized as kind, generous and “the backbone of their society”. I would like to have talked with her longer but never saw her again. [/QUOTE]
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