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I didn't realize you were trying to start a list, so add the monastery in Sarrance and Reb's Peaceable Kingdom to you list.
The next day there was a toast and preserves breakfast (not good walking food for Scandinavians) and the option to buy a bocadillo to take on the walk over the pass.
Genius…THANK YOU. Starting the walk in 40+ days. Will definitely compile into a spreadsheet and print it.Hi, I have never taken part in a communal meal in an albergue apart from my second night on the Francés - no surprise it was at Orisson. I don't mean albergues with a kitchen where pilgrims can cook together, but albergues that offer, donativo or for a price, a communal meal they have shopped for and prepared. Pilgrims may very well be asked to help out, but basically I am after the ones where it is part of the plan and operation of the albergue. I am also interested in places that serve breakfast - I only remember the albergue Hogar in Villamayor de Monjardin, but never had it, we left very early that morning.
Please tell me the ones you know about and what it was like!
At Orisson I remember the food being absolutely delicious, and good walking food - a hearty lentil/bean stew and cooked meat. Bread and wine. Introductions - everybody had to say their name, where they were from, where they were going to and why they walked the camino. (As far as I remember.) The next day there was a toast and preserves breakfast (not good walking food for Scandinavians) and the option to buy a bocadillo to take on the walk over the pass.
Yeah, one of my first lessons on my first Camino. Don't depend on that snack they call a breakfast to get you through a walking morning. Big daddy needs some complex carbs and protein. I quickly learned to purchase provisions the night before if possible.I got a kick out of this because I had the exact same thought the first morning out of SJPP, so apparently toast and preserves is not good walking food for Americans, either!
Anyway, this is a good idea for a thread because those communal meals are fantastic! Oftentimes when eating out I found the Peregrino Menus to be pretty bad for the price. Once I had lamb and it was nothing more than overcooked skin and bones. Often a wiser pilgrim would just order a tuna salad off the peregrino menu for half as much and get much healthier food to eat. Yet the communal dinners with other pilgrims were almost always excellent--both the food and the company.
So bottom line is that in the future I will opt to eat a communal meal over going out to eat the peregrino menu at a drab restaurant every time. I often felt the 10-12 Euro Peregrino Menus were overpriced and not worth it.
Hi, I have never taken part in a communal meal in an albergue apart from my second night on the Francés - no surprise it was at Orisson. I don't mean albergues with a kitchen where pilgrims can cook together, but albergues that offer, donativo or for a price, a communal meal they have shopped for and prepared. Pilgrims may very well be asked to help out, but basically I am after the ones where it is part of the plan and operation of the albergue. I am also interested in places that serve breakfast - I only remember the albergue Hogar in Villamayor de Monjardin, but never had it, we left very early that morning.
Please tell me the ones you know about and what it was like!
At Orisson I remember the food being absolutely delicious, and good walking food - a hearty lentil/bean stew and cooked meat. Bread and wine. Introductions - everybody had to say their name, where they were from, where they were going to and why they walked the camino. (As far as I remember.) The next day there was a toast and preserves breakfast (not good walking food for Scandinavians) and the option to buy a bocadillo to take on the walk over the pass.
Albergue Emaus in Burgos is a special place,
Albergue En el Camino in Boadilla del Camino
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I've stayed at both places recently and wasn't offered a communal meal.
En El Camino has a restaurant.
Emaus had a kitchen - are they now offering meals?
Hi Annie,
I stayed at Emaus on 25 May this year and had communal evening meal and breakfast the next morning at 7am.....evening meal and breakfast donativo!
Yeah En el Camino was in their restaurant but still a communal experience as I don't think there are may other places to eat nearby, 9 euros if I remember!
That's good to know about Emaus.
I loved that - did they enforce the rule of silence?
Actually, it's been a few years since I was at Emaus. Sheesh, time flies!Not that I remember, we spoke at dinner and after washing the dishes we had a short discussion in dining room. Silence after 9pm. Breakfast not before 7am. My first time to stay at Emaus and a really nice experience
Hi Tessera, you will love the albergue Orisson. Wish you well and a Buen Camino, Peter.I will be at Orisson in five weeks and my mouth is watering already! Thank you for posing this question!
And futile! If I cannot change something, I try to accept it.I think it is a bit unfair to criticize breakfasts.
Acacia & Orieta: lentils and yogourt.
Quatro cantines: chicken
In Casanova, bilboreta: also chicken, with soup, Salas and some désert.
At the private in Sta Irene: soup, fish and yogourt.
On the Primitivo the best meal ever: cream of veggies, potaches bacalao ans foe désert tarta de Santiago. Breakfast made of thicl slice of home made Brad with home made préserves. It was all inclided on the price of the albergue In the Juvénil in Castro.
I don't recall any comunal breakfasts on CF I would pay for.
Hi Celeste.Hello all,
I LOVE the list but can everyone put the cities in with the name of the albergue so us 'newbies' can find them on the map and mark them. I'm going to start the end of september with one of my daughters and I love the idea of staying where there are communal meals as much as possible.
thanks,
celeste
I don't this these were all recommandations, just a list of where these afe offered. You can often eat better and for a fraction of the price by going to El Dia or Eroski.Hi Celestemesser,
I am preparing the list based on all these recommendations (over 50), in order from St Jean to Santiago, and will post tomorrow.
Too funny and true. Also don't expect toilet seats or Windows in the bathrooms, after all he doesn't charge extra for these luxuriesAlso add, Refugio Fenix at Villafranca. We had a very restoring communal meal there and breakfast. A very warm welcome. But, don't expect hot showers from solar heated water on a miserable rainy day! Needed the hot food to warm up.
Cant wait to see that list. My mother and I leave in 4 weeks!Hi Celestemesser,
I am preparing the list based on all these recommendations (over 50), in order from St Jean to Santiago, and will post tomorrow.
The attached .txt file seems actually to be a document, not simple text. While some programs/apps will open it as is (such as Open Office) others will not. Following Hélène's suggestion, I renamed the file from .txt to .doc, that is, to "Communal Meals along the Camino Frances .doc" This worked where there had been a failure. And it looks like great information, thanks for compiling it!Thanks, @Hélène Cholette-Lacasse for doing this! But I can't make any sense of the text file. Would it be possible to copy and paste the list into a regular post?
Many thanks Helene & Raybert - that's really helpful.Here is the list as a pdf
Thanks a lot Raybert!Here is the list as a pdf
Hey thank you for starting this thread Nidarosa! Great teamwork everyone...Thank you to everyone who has added to the list and a special thank you to @Hélène Cholette-Lacasse and the others who have taken time and care to compile the list and share it! This is so great, I am very pleased that this info is now being collated and made accessible to pilgrims who might be looking for it and didn't know where to look. I hope it is made available and in a format that allows for it to be updated regularly - if not there is always this thread. Thanks again everyone!
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this list. I started my Camino 3 days ago and am trying to organize it around these suggestions. Corazon Pura in Biskarret was amazing--18 euros for room, hot bath, home cooked meal with wine and breakfast in a wonderful home. I couldn't believe there were only 2 of us staying that night, but we each enjoyed our own room. Even if we hadn't, it's only ever 2 to a room. Last night at the donativo in Zabaldica connected with the convent was also fabulous--lots of food, wine, songs, and stories flowed, and the nuns were awesome. I wish there were another one somewhere in stage 4, but every night can't be as wonderful as those, I suppose.Updated List in pdf
Great to see the list being useful! Thanks for your feedbackThanks to everyone who contributed to this list. I started my Camino 3 days ago and am trying to organize it around these suggestions. Corazon Pura in Biskarret was amazing--18 euros for room, hot bath, home cooked meal with wine and breakfast in a wonderful home. I couldn't believe there were only 2 of us staying that night, but we each enjoyed our own room. Even if we hadn't, it's only ever 2 to a room. Last night at the donativo in Zabaldica connected with the convent was also fabulous--lots of food, wine, songs, and stories flowed, and the nuns were awesome. I wish there were another one somewhere in stage 4, but every night can't be as wonderful as those, I suppose.
thanks a bunch i'll check it out!Hi Celeste.
This may help you in locating the albergues referred to in the previous posts http://www.caminoguide.net/downloads/CaminoFrancesGuide.pdf
Buen camino
Super David! Here is the updated list with your inputs.Thanks to all, especially Helene and Raybert.
As promised in a post above, I listed all the albergues in these posts plus some that I know, into a word document. Somehow, I was unable to upload it onto a post and I have been struggling for the past week. My computer and I are now in therapy but I fear I will come out of it the loser!
I have compared Helenes list with my own, and hers is very comprehensive. I would like to add two special places however.
1. SJPDP, Albergue Beilari (Private) Stage 1. It used to called L'Esprit de Chemin.
2. San Anton, Albergue San Anton. 495.5 kms Stage 14. Small with 14 beds. There is no village and just the ruins of the convent that sheltered pilgrims past. Dinner and breakfast provided. It is basic, with no electricity, and the volunteer hospitalero is provided with a bicycle to go to Castrojeriz to get supplies. It is very atmospheric with a continuation of the communal gathering every evening after dinner by candlelight. A camino friend is there this week as hospitalero.
David, I forgot to say that I ajusted the kms for San Anton.Super David! Here is the updated list with your inputs.
My pleasure Falcon269Thank you for your efforts in creating the list. It will be useful to quite a number of pilgrims.
Hélène, thank you so much for your continuing effort in updating the list. I had walked the CF in 2012 and the VdLP 2014. I was going to walk the CP for my next camino. However, I chanced upon this thread and will probably walk the CF again. Without this kind of list, I have had communal dinners by chance. They were wonderful experiences. Armed with this list, I will definitely plan for communal dinners whenever possible. Buen camino.Hola a todos! Here is the updated list - latest version is thus 16 August 2015
Lovely list, thank you!
Users should know that many of these listed places serve dinner in a communal sit-down style, but "communal" does not extend to the the kitchen. You do not contribute ingredients or help prepare and serve the meals at many of these places -- you eat together, and everyone pays for his dinner.
At Orisson I remember the food being absolutely delicious, and good walking food - a hearty lentil/bean stew and cooked meat. Bread and wine. Introductions - everybody had to say their name, where they were from, where they were going to and why they walked the camino. (As far as I remember.) The next day there was a toast and preserves breakfast (not good walking food for Scandinavians) and the option to buy a bocadillo to take on the walk over the pass.
Fuente del Peregrino. About 3/4days from Santiago. It's seems to be run by an American religious organisation. Excellent 3 course evening meal. Bread and jam for breakfast. Donations.
Honnestly, I have never been in an albergue that purposely offers a "communal meal" in the sense that people are meant to bring ingredients and cook together and eat together. ...
Thanks Hobbyhorse! It's because of everybody's input, like yours, that the list was made possible.The 'Fuente del Peregrino' donativo albergue is located in Ligonde (about 15 km after Portomarin), our third-last night before Santiago.) It is a seasonal operation. On the very rainy day we enjoyed our communal meal, prepared by & shared with their international youth volunteers, it was literally a haven in a storm - rustic facilities, an exuberant welcome and joyful spirituality.
Thanks so much to all of you for this thread and especially for the updated list. What a great resource!
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