This quiet place after Triacastela...any idea where?

[SabsP]

Does anyone remember this place? Im my memory it is after Triacastela. Quiet place , I did not see the owner. A good place for praying and meditation...If anyone can shed a light?

 

[CaminoDebrita]

What a beautiful, calm space!

 

[jirit]

Albergue Ecológico El Beso, A Balsa

https://es-es.facebook.com/albergue.ecologico.el.beso

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...km-after-triacastela-ecologico-el-beso.18826/

 

[OTH86]

I stayed here on 25 Oct 2014, and it was WONDERFUL!!! What a treat to see photos [see jirit's facebook link] of the building of this peaceful albergue! I'll never forget the breakfast of hot crepes with about five or six different types of jam - including fig and blueberry!!
May the Camino watch over this great little family ~ ~

 

[SabsP]

Thanks for the info! In 2011 it was merely a shed . I heard later that a dutch young couple opened an albergue, though I did not know that was the same place that I took a pic of.

 

[Deleted member 22638]

Albergue Ecológico El Beso, A Balsa

Jirit are you sure? I stayed there last month and cannot recall this room unless it was the upstairs room where the hospitelero family lived?

I had an enjoyable stop eating dinner outdoors with good company

 

[SabsP]

The mystery continues

 

[Anemone del Camino]

I don't think this is an albergue but the lovely little Ermita just after you cross the road leaving Triacastela behing when you opt not to go to Samos. It was lovingly restored by a Brit who paints watercolours. There are living quarters below ( it's on a hill) but the ground floor is a space with a place to sit to the right, and a little altar on the left. Music playing. When I was there there was a thermos of hot water and tea bags.

 

[jirit]

Jirit are you sure? I stayed there last month and cannot recall this room unless it was the upstairs room where the hospitelero family lived?

I had an enjoyable stop eating dinner outdoors with good company

I am not positive but a Dutch couple do own this place

 

[SabsP]

I don't think this is an albergue but the lovely little Ermita just after you cross the road leaving Triacastela behing when you opt not to go to Samos. It was lovingly restored by a Brit who paints watercolours. There are living quarters below ( it's on a hill) but the ground floor is a space with a place to sit to the right, and a little altar on the left. Music playing. When I was there there was a thermos of hot water and tea bags.

Yes indeed I do remember the watercolours. So it must be a different place than the Dutch albergue.

 

[Icacos]

Albergue Ecológico El Beso, A Balsa

https://es-es.facebook.com/albergue.ecologico.el.beso

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...km-after-triacastela-ecologico-el-beso.18826/

Whether this is the place @SabineP is looking for, I don't know, but it was a pleasure looking at the pics on @jirit's post. It is such a delight to see these old relics so lovingly restored. So much work but .... oh ...... so satisfying.

Off topic, I know, but here is a pic I took of a sign just a bit before Santiago showing other restoration projects.

Perhaps we should start a thread dealing just with Camino restoration projects.

 

[Magwood]

I stayed in the albergue 'El Beso' in May 2013 when it had only been open a few weeks. I wrote about it in my blog post for the day here, including a few photos.

There was a room upstairs that was being renovated when I was there. I believe the owners are a young Italian/Dutch couple who met and fell in love on the camino.

I think the place @SabineP is referring to was a small building a little further along the road from El Beso, on the left of the road. The owner was there when I passed and looked in through the open door - he invited me in and I am fairly sure he was English speaking and explained that he had renovated the building with his living accommodation below and this very special space open and available to pilgrims to use for rest and contemplation. He may have been an artist - I seem to remember postcards of his work.

 

[jirit]

Yes indeed I do remember the watercolours. So it must be a different place than the Dutch albergue.

My wife who walked this route in 2013, tells me there was a little house owned by an artisan who worked with crystals

Maybe this is the place?

 

[SabsP]

In any case : good to know there are still enough places where people can find some rest/ contemplation on this busy Camino Frances!!

 

[Anemone del Camino]

The man who restored this ermita is Arthur Lowe. Here is is website: https://www.artmantonlowe.com/

And an article about him doing the Camino and buying the ruin: http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/lemos/2008/06/28/0003_6942718.htm

 

[SabsP]

Cheers Anemone!

 

[FlinFlonWalker]

Does anyone remember this place? Im my memory it is after Triacastela. Quiet place , I did not see the owner. A good place for praying and meditation...If anyone can shed a light?
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It's the art gallery in al balsa or al beso it is owned by an English man. The hostel is earlier down road ran by Dutchman and Italian or Spanish girl.

 

[AJ]

I spoke to him briefly in July. I had thought that the building was a restored ermita, but he told me that it had been a cow shed before he restored it. A VERY religious man.

 

[mountaingoat999]

couple of years ago the door was open and we walked in around 10 am(me and a Kiwi couple).....after a while he came in. I mentioned the British Policeman helmet on display. so he told us his story about his break up of his marriage etc and so on..he talked about not judging other pilgrims and there reason for being on the camino.

Consider everything that happen to him and the lack of support when he had problems at work, he is not bitter, a very deep calm sincere person....who seems to fit perfectly in his surrounds.. plenty of times passing since I have not seen the door open.

after we all spoke,he said a pray.

great nook where he lives underneath

not a albergue when I met him, the owner......a ex long serving British police officer, and I can well imagine he was a well liked .