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[QUOTE="Anthony Rocco, post: 1155390, member: 38543"] My wife and I stayed there in 2014. It still holds first place among our wildest experiences at any albergue. We were the first to arrive that day and the good sister decided that since I spoke Spanish as well as my native American English, I should sit with her and check in other English speakers. How do you say no to a nun? When it came time to wash our clothes, one of the nuns spotted my wife and I ringing them to remove as much water as possible. No, no...she said. This is how you do it. And we been doing it her way ever since...and it works! (This could be a topic for another thread). After a very meager dinner of soup and bread, we gathered in the bell tower for prayers and discussion. A big dude from Ireland whom we encountered the night before after he fell out of his top bunk and bashed his head, with my wife cleaning and patching it up, broke into tears when it came his turn. He said it had to be a sign that we were sitting in the church of St. Stephen. It was six years to the day that his son, Stephen, had committed suicide. He was on this camino to look for a sign whether he should try to reconcile with his wife. They had grown increasingly apart after the suicide. (If you are wondering what he did, we were in the square in Burgos when he came up to us so excited. He and his wife had decided to have a new start with a second honeymoon at the chalet in Switzerland when they had their first honeymoon.) But wait...there's more. Suddenly the wind whipped into the bell tower, there lightning and thunder and it all dawned on us that our clothes were on the lines. The nun told us to stay till the storm subsided. The clothes would all be blown off the line and end up down the hill. We could look for them then. We thought she was joking, but sure enough, when the storm subsided, we were led by all the nuns with flashlights to find our clothes. And we did. We bonded with our fellow pilgrims that evening as never again in our many camino walks. And it is one of those camino stories my wife and I smile whenever we think about it. [/QUOTE]
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