I stayed in Granon last month June 14th and immediately noticed a difference to the previous times that I had stayed there.
Young hospiladeros/as with great kindness and good will, but they seemed to me to lack the organisational skills needed. It was the Sunday of the changeover of staff, so they all disappeared for hours for a meeting and then quite late one young girl came to organise dinner. she was all concerned about preparing the salad first, even though a few of us told her that the lentils would take a long time to cook and needed to be started. Eventually it was really the pilgrims that got the meal ready. Thanks mainly to one who owned an hotel and knew about cooking and what a tasty dish of lentils he prepared.
Because we were so late eating we were also very late getting to bed.
What a contrast next day in Tosantos where Louis gently issued requests in an orderly fashion. An experienced hospiladero who knew what needed doing and in what order.
I do not wish to be critical of the young people. They would have been marvelous if they had had one experienced person to train them in. I also feel that if experienced hospiladeros had been there the little jobs like bolts on bathroom doors would have been fixed when needed.
Thanks to everyone who has ever been an hospiladero/a and may we who benefit from their generosity donate well and also pull our weight when residing in a Donativo albergue.