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  1. Rebekah Scott

    Night stage recommendation?

    Not many bulls around these parts, but plenty of moon. This is big sky country.
  2. Rebekah Scott

    Night stage recommendation?

    I live on the meseta and like to star-gaze. I have found pilgrims night-walking in the neighborhood. I usually stop and ask them if everything is OK. About half of them are exhausted and lost. The other ones are hardcore pilgrims who carry tents and have the flexibility and savvy to walk when...
  3. Rebekah Scott

    Ruins of San Antón

    More Templars? Puh-leeze. The original San Anton was built on the site of a royal hunting lodge. There are no Templars anywhere in the historic record, despite the best efforts of many to squeeze them in there.
  4. Rebekah Scott

    Where is the most reliable accommodation information?

    ...but don't get too upset if your hospitalero DOESN'T know what's open up ahead. It is up to each pilgrim to take care of his own needs/do his own homework, and then look around and see who else could use a hand.
  5. Rebekah Scott

    Trash pick up

    It was called "Un Paso Limpio," it was sponsored by the Amigos de Astorga and the Japanese Association of Pilgrims, with funding from Correos. Yellow plastic bags were distributed along the Frances route, and pilgrims could take them, fill them up along the Way, and hopefully drop them in a...
  6. Rebekah Scott

    Large equestrian event near Arzua today

    step lively, pilgrims!
  7. Rebekah Scott

    Mountain splendor from Ponferrada or El Acebo

    Please be aware that Laurie is a phenomenal walker, and I'm maybe just a little above average. Also, the 7 km. from Penalba to Montes de Valdueza is the most challenging part of the (very long) day. Now that there's a place to stay in Montes de Valdueza, I am sure Laurie will have a...
  8. Rebekah Scott

    Pianos in Albergue (HELP)

    Albergue Espiritu Santo in Carrion de los Condes has one. Not sure what kind of shape it's in...
  9. Rebekah Scott

    Meseta

    The fine dining in Fromista is at Las Palmeros, a lovely Michelin-listed place on Plaza San Telmo. Great wine list, too! As for coming to see me when you are in Moratinos: Some of the best people stop here when I am not home. It's always been that way. It is how I maintain my "Woman of...
  10. Rebekah Scott

    Seeking guidance on becoming a hospitalera on the Camino Frances

    Thanks for being patient with my peevishness, Puttster. Exactly what kind of volunteer service did you have in mind? What do you mean by "big organizations?" "The Camino" is not really a very big place. It is made up of dozens of little places and small groups and individuals, and thousands...
  11. Rebekah Scott

    Meseta

    Moratinos is the center of the universe. Just sayin.'
  12. Rebekah Scott

    Seeking guidance on becoming a hospitalera on the Camino Frances

    Yes I am very tired. I am still in the middle of recruiting volunteers for 2024. I still need about 16 good people willing to give two weeks of their time to care for a scruffy albergue in the middle of the Frances. It's hard work, hospitalero-ing. It's hard work training hospitaleros, and...
  13. Rebekah Scott

    Seeking guidance on becoming a hospitalera on the Camino Frances

    Puttster, you malign good people doing good work. There are other places you can train for less money. The Canadian program is second to none, the Australians and South Africans and English also offer great training sessions, but I don't know what they cost. It is a good idea to be trained...
  14. Rebekah Scott

    Fire destroys the Pieros albergue

    Mar, the lady in charge, always kept the door open to even the scruffy and penniless. She kept extra clothes on hand for people who needed them. When pilgrims were stuck in Spain and needed a place to rest and/or volunteer, El Serbal y Luna was a go-to place. It embodied the Camino Spirit with...
  15. Rebekah Scott

    Eunate Albergue

    I was a volunteer hospitalero at Eunate back in 2007. The old rectory building has a bumpy history, albergue-wise. Way back in the late 1990's, it was opened up as an albergue and administered by the circle of Don Jose Ignacio, the parish priest who also pioneered landmark albergues in Granon...
  16. Rebekah Scott

    Cowboy Bar

    Yeah, and photos were forbidden indoors in 2017 when I last stopped. The owner said he was getting all fed-up and cranky with people stopping for photos and not even saying hello, or buying anything -- or demanding things he didn't have. I met this guy on my first Camino in 2001, when he was a...
  17. Rebekah Scott

    Is the Camino too crowded now?

    An answer to your initial question: If you really like hot weather, and you don't want a bed-race, come to the Camino Frances in July or August. In the last three years there's been a dip in the number of people using the municipal albergues, as most of the book-ahead crowd walk in the spring...
  18. Rebekah Scott

    LIVE from the Camino Walking the Dream

    I am sorry I didn't get to meet you while you were in town, but it seems you made the most of your stay here in the Center of the Universe! Buen Camino!
  19. Rebekah Scott

    Toilet paper, litter and graffiti

    The camino is a miracle of chaos flowing into grace. No one's in charge, and the people who live here aren't about to take instruction from foreigners. For a thousand years, pilgrims have done their business along the road, and the locals and fellow pilgrims have had to deal with it -- or not...
  20. Rebekah Scott

    Albergue at Manjarin

    Tomas has not left the Camino! He doesn't do anything that final without making a big announcement! He is still bopping around up there, don't write him off so quick!

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