- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2003 CF Ronces to Santiago
Hospi San Anton 2016.
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I stayed there too in early October 2014. No bath salts but that tub and shower did feel fantastic! Very nice and helpful front desk staff. And had a great dinner at the restaurant downstairs.Hot bath with sea salt in Hotel Norte y Londres in Burgos, pure luxury.
Exactly the same hotel when I hit the wall in Burgos. I'd stayed in the Albergue the night before but on waking knew the time had come for a rest day. A fellow pilgrim felt the same and so we approached the hotel around 10am and bless them they let us check in right away. That stopover healed me and set me on my way the next day....I slept half the day and a hot bath has never felt so good.Hot bath with sea salt in Hotel Norte y Londres in Burgos, pure luxury.
So you slept in it?I have just got out of one ! No beds left in the alburges in Leon so that was the perfect excuse it was sooooooooo good.
In 2003 somewhere close to Palas Del Rei in Lugo I stumbled across a Hostal in the dark. It was the day that daylight saving commenced at the end of October. It had rained ALL day and by 7pm it was dark. At 8pm I squelched into the adjoining bar and ordered a brandy. The young lady asked me if I wanted a room as she was about to close. One Key later accompanied by a bottle of vino and I settled into a quaint en suite room for €15. there was small radiator which must have been running on nuclear power - what a difference to the mysery of outdoors.
And there in the bathroom was a BIG bath. I must have soaked for well over an hour supping ample vino. Man was that some bath , the first in just under a month.
Yeeeeeeeoow! That does sound good .......I can picture it ... I'm inhaling the steam right now.Fully restored Roman Therma on the Vdlp, just outside Merida… Bliss!
People actually make vacations visiting natural hot springs in the northwest some in the backcountry. I see they also are in Spain another thing to research.Not quite camino but close involving walking and hot water.
About three decades ago Peg and I went backpacking in the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park. It was chilly enough to have ice form in the water bottles at night. On day four we took a side trail to a hot water pool. This was the only pool in the park where bathing was permitted as safety came from the cold water stream that flowed into it. We went skinny dipping. We could adjust the temperature by adjusting our position.
Peg had just got her clothes back on when a boy scout troop on horses came by for their turn.
On the Camino Sanabres. Free outdoor thermal pools in Ourense - right beside the river. Very relaxing after some long cold days.
I would trade that one day for almost any other day on the Camino, except one very hot night in Logrono. But, that's life, you take the good with the bad. Tired but content, hungry while full, fulfilled yet needy, knowing but curious. Enjoy every minute and every step because the Camino is our life.Ahhh, now that is something that needs to be set up next to every albergue on every Camino.
Yeeeeeeeoow! That does sound good .......I can picture it ... I'm inhaling the steam right now.
Ahhh, now that is something that needs to be set up next to every albergue on every Camino.
Now, you see, it competely justifies packing a toga. Make it double as a tent?Fully restored Roman Therma on the Vdlp, just outside Merida… Bliss!
Heck yeah! Villalcazar de Sirga. Piping hot!
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I have stayed there too, was fantastic, had a suite (including the bathroom) looking out East, wow, those were the days!Hotel Spa Via de la Plata in Astorga. I have to tell you that while enjoying the spa, the windows face east and you get to watch the hot, tired and sweaty Pilgrims walking towards Astorga, over the tracks and up the hill. The whole time thinking, poor suckers, until I sheepishly remembered that I was that poor sucker the day before. Hot shower, tepid shower and cold shower, sauna and a massage. We'd washed our clothes, in a machine, so for the first time on my Camino, I felt clean (and a bit guilty but that passed). Fuel to finish the last 10 days. Some of my Camino friends would sniff like they'd never smelled clean before. The reality passed quickly, the memory has not. I'm laughing now as I write this.
Nice bottle of wine on the terrace looking towards San Justo wasn’t bad either. When all of this is over, I think I need to do that again. Buen Camino.I have stayed there too, was fantastic, had a suite (including the bathroom) looking out East, wow, those were the days!
Hot bath with sea salt in Hotel Norte y Londres in Burgos, pure luxury.
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