arturo garcia
Pilgrim/Hospitalero/Mountain guide/Photographer
- Time of past OR future Camino
- French way (Dic. 2012), Portuguese way (Dic.2013) and now living on the Camino.
Very early this morning at 6 a.m. we were serving breakfast in the albergue meanwhile a few pilgrims were already leaving the place and saying good bye, then, 4 persons from outside the albergue (pilgrims), came in, while the others were opening the door, with any word to the staff or neither saying good morning, they took envelopes for Backpack transportation and start to fill them out. I aproach to them with my hands in praying possition and say:
- Hello! Good morning! , you can leave you pack in same place you sleep!, the company will take it from there with no problem!
They open their eyes very big and say.
-We thought this was the municipal Albergue! and I say, No, this is a private albergue
-Where do you sleep last night?
They said; We stay in Leon! (Now they were in Hospital de Orbigo it was before sunrise, 6;30 a.m.) and I open my Eyes very Big, I though (Teletransportation? in my mind)
I said - Please Just leave you packs in the same place you sleep!
- Then I said, - we cannot accept your bags if you are not registered here. Just leave it in same place you sleep, is always like that.
(The comunication was all in english)
I show them the way to the Parrish Albergue (there no Municipal albergue in Hospital de Orbigo)
and they left complaining with one of the ladies very Mad about me.
The thing is: They Never ask for help or support from us or gave any explanation of what was going on in the moment, neither when they came in.
Weird? If they sleep in Leon, Why they doesn´t leave their bags there? where they sleep.
- Hello! Good morning! , you can leave you pack in same place you sleep!, the company will take it from there with no problem!
They open their eyes very big and say.
-We thought this was the municipal Albergue! and I say, No, this is a private albergue
-Where do you sleep last night?
They said; We stay in Leon! (Now they were in Hospital de Orbigo it was before sunrise, 6;30 a.m.) and I open my Eyes very Big, I though (Teletransportation? in my mind)
I said - Please Just leave you packs in the same place you sleep!
- Then I said, - we cannot accept your bags if you are not registered here. Just leave it in same place you sleep, is always like that.
(The comunication was all in english)
I show them the way to the Parrish Albergue (there no Municipal albergue in Hospital de Orbigo)
and they left complaining with one of the ladies very Mad about me.
The thing is: They Never ask for help or support from us or gave any explanation of what was going on in the moment, neither when they came in.
Weird? If they sleep in Leon, Why they doesn´t leave their bags there? where they sleep.
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