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    Hospitalero in the Meseta

    Looks like now the heating and the hot water works by gas. My best wishes to you for your stay in Arres. I served there five years ago, and it was wonderful. Ildefonso
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    Hospitalero in the Meseta

    Well friends, there I go again. This time I´ll be serving from 1st to 15th of March in the lovely Municipal Albergue ( Donativo) of Villadangos del Paramo, 20 kilometers after Leon. Never been there before but my Hospitalero mates of HOSVOL said it´s a good place to serve, and GRONCE...
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    Any update Hospital de Peregrinos San Juan Bautista?

    San Juan Bautista in Grañon is open 24/7. Since its opening 27 years ago it had been always that way, except when suffered a bed bug infestation many years ago and due COVID restriction measures.
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    LIVE from the Camino @Palmah on the Camino Francés

    That was not the fault of anybody, you dind´t know I live in Zaragoza, nor I knew you were passing by. My time like hospi was, as always, invigorating and exhausting, because the double task of cleaning, exhaustively desinfect the facilities etc. Fortunetely I have had a bunch of good...
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    LIVE from the Camino @Palmah on the Camino Francés

    I remember that day. Your message "sounds" like you where mad, fighting those creepy bugs.But I´ll have my revenge, next time we´ll meet , double round of beberages will be taken. Buen Camino Laurie.
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    LIVE from the Camino @Palmah on the Camino Francés

    Are you telling you were at Zaragoza five days ago, and didn´t contacted me? I just arrived from Grañon that day, and would be a real pleasure for me to share one or two glasses of red, guide you in MY city, etc. I´m really sad and angry now knowing whe could share a good talk and many other...
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    Hospitalero in Grañon (4th time)

    Hey , palmah, nice to talk to you again. Long time since our last meeting, that cold day of that cold winter in that cold albergue. Only the hugs both of you gave me where warm that day. Luckily Grañon is much more friendly and I could welcome the pilgrims the way we have learn to love. For...
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    Hospitalero in Grañon (4th time)

    Hi, mates. That stove was alredy working two years ago, during my last time of volunteriing there. The good new it´s that the main air heater is brand new. Now we can efficiently heat the main hall in a few minutes without believing that we were inside a helicopter. That allows to ventilate and...
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    Hospitalero in Grañon (4th time)

    Hi friends. I proud and happily can say now I´ll be your hospitalero in Grañon´s parish albergue of S. Juan Bautista from the 6th to the 16th of March. All off you whom choose to stay there for the nigth, sharing dinner and breakfast with fellow pilgrims and mysel are more than wellcome. If you...
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    Basic pilgrim experiences on the Camino Frances

    You can find similar ones in Parish albergues of: Viana, Logroño (Santiago el Real), Bercianos del Real Camino, Burgo Ranero (Domenico Lafti), Foncebadon (Domus Dei) The spirit you can find in those and other albergues depends mainly of the volunteers that are working there, sometimes it can...
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    Should we expect Albergue rates to go up this year?

    Just returned from an eight days Camino on the Francés. Many albergues were closed but some are opening its doors for high season. The prices are a little bit higher, but it could be because we choose some hostels and private acomodations, due the lack of traditional albergues in some stages...
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    Monte do Gozo

    I would like to have a bed in that "resort" the last Holy Year, the time I slept on the floor of an Army Tent due the lack of any other accomodation twenty kilometers around Santiago.
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    Thinking of walking Camino Frances in summer 2021... in need of advice

    I think it could be a good idea to wait some years until you have settled down. Then wait some more years until you have your own family. Then wait some years until the kids dont need you. Then, thats the moment to hurry up, just before your grandchildren miss their grandmother and after you...
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    Hospitalero (again) in Grañon

    Hello, friends. From the 1st to the 15th of February I´ll be serving in the parish´s albergue of San Juan Bautista in Grañon. It should be me pleasure to recibe you there. If you decided not to stop there, feel free to enter and say hello, the fireplace will be on, the bathrooms clean and a...
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    Do you already have a place in mind to stay when you reach your destination (stop)?

    The reason there are not cooking equipment in many of the Xunta´s Albergues are mainly because the employees of those albergues (formerly Xunta´s employees, nowadays workers of the tenants companies) became tired of daily washing and cleaning the dirty kitchenware, left by certain "Piggrims"...
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    Do you already have a place in mind to stay when you reach your destination (stop)?

    Easy thing. The big one in Ponferrada was built with the donation of a very rich lady who was born in this town. She married a Swiss man, and went to live to Geneva; having no childrens, and being really wealthy and very religious people, they left much of their heritage for charity. This is...
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    Do you already have a place in mind to stay when you reach your destination (stop)?

    No Municipal or Associated Albergues are financed by Asociations, Goverments or any kind of "official institutions". They are financied by the aportations pilgrims give. They are the owners of the building, but they usually don´t afford one single euro for paying the expenses, manteinance...
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    Hospitalero in Bercianos del Real Camino.

    Hi. Laurie. I alredy contacted Rebekah to meet her in Moratinos. Thanks.
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    Hospitalero in Bercianos del Real Camino.

    Hi all. From 1st to 15th May, I`ll be volunteering in the Parish Albergue of Bercianos del Real Camino, next town from Sahagun, in the French Way. Will be my pleasure to receive you there. If you decided to choose another town, another albergue to rest, you always can get in to say hi. You`ll...
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    The use of blackmail in the internet.

    Noli illegitimi carborumbum.

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