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Such a heart warming experience, I salute you.I arrived at the Nájera municipal albergue last night to cheers from the pilgrims and a hug from the volunteer hospitalero. There were supposed to be two volunteers on duty, but one had left suddenly. There were 27 pilgrims staying the night. 27 was more than half the number that could stay and about the maximum that one hospiterero could care for.
This morning after everyone had left we stripped the bunks, washed the sheets, mopped, cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms, then made the beds. Finally after 11:30, I had a chance to clean up and go in search of breakfast and WiFi. Two café con leches and a bit of tortilla and I’m ready for my first full day as a hospitalero.
The albergue is a donotivo, opens at 14 and there is no WiFi yet.
I arrived at the Nájera municipal albergue last night to cheers from the pilgrims and a hug from the volunteer hospitalero. There were supposed to be two volunteers on duty, but one had left suddenly. There were 27 pilgrims staying the night. 27 was more than half the number that could stay and about the maximum that one hospiterero could care for.
You can make an appointment at the airport for your test. The process is relatively simple. Phil had his results in hand and on his phone within an hour.Hello to all from another volunteer hospitalera for Nájera. Today I finished my pilgrim walk in Santiago and am spending a few days resting in San Martin Pinario and preparing for my hospitalera stint in Nájera. I shall travel there on the 13th to be on duty the next morning. Another hospitalera will be joining me there a day or two later, so I hope that someone there now can cover for the day (or two). My return flight to Canada goes from Madrid airport on the very early morning of November 29, and I may have to get a PCR test at the airport in sufficient time for it to be processed before my flight. If anyone has up-to-date information on Canadian covid travel regulations, please pass it on.
Albertagirl
I didn’t meet Paul, he left the day before, it was from John who was frazzled by a nearly full house.The hug must have been from Paul.
I loved being a hospi in Nájera, even in the "old days" with 90 occupied beds but it was July and there were 4 of us!
From Paul's account over the past weeks the albergue has often been completo.
Thanks for volunteering and enjoy!
Hola Robert, I remember you, you went on to Canfranc didn’t you?Bruce!!!! My wife and I met you at the Pilgrim House in Santiago a week or so ago (we are from Sacramento). At that time you were unsure how useful you’d be as a third hospitalero there - amazing how the Camino recognizes one’s worth and maximizes your value to helping others! So happy to see you serving, both in SdC and Najera. Ultreia!
Yes! My wife and I are at the new Canfranc Pueblo albergue until Nov 16.Hola Robert, I remember you, you went on to Canfranc didn’t you?
Hi mspath, I found myself on Calle Mártires yesterday so looked for Mesón El Buen Yantar. I regret to tell you that it seems to have been closed for a while. I will go by again this evening after the Pilgrim rush, LOL, is over to make sure.Desert Bruce,
What a busy time you have had upon arrival! Surely those cafés con leche tasted especially good.
Over past years when I stayed at the Najera municipal a good value nearby resto was Mesón El Buen Yantar, Calle Mártires, 19, bajo. Perhaps you might also enjoy it.
Carpe diem!
Sorry to learn that. Here is their telephone so you can call before heading out.Hi mspath, I found myself on Calle Mártires yesterday so looked for Mesón El Buen Yantar. I regret to tell you that it seems to have been closed for a while. I will go by again this evening after the Pilgrim rush, LOL, is over to make sure.
Hi mspath, I found myself on Calle Mártires yesterday so looked for Mesón El Buen Yantar. I regret to tell you that it seems to have been closed for a while. I will go by again this evening after the Pilgrim rush, LOL, is over to make sure.
Mesón El Buen Yantar is open as of this morning. They were on vacation for a while. Tom, an experienced hospetelero, stayed with us last night. He had worked in Nájera several times and also recommended El Buen Yantar. It was still closed, but had a sign that said it would be reopening today. I will go for dinner this evening.
He was the first I have seen this year.Not to derail the thread, but that must be the first Australian for ages! Unless it is someone who has been out of the country since the pandemic began. Or someone very keen. We have only been allowed to travel overseas since 4 November.
Carry on telling us about your adventures. I am sure you were really welcomed.I arrived at the Nájera municipal albergue last night to cheers from the pilgrims and a hug from the volunteer hospitalero. There were supposed to be two volunteers on duty, but one had left suddenly. There were 27 pilgrims staying the night. 27 was more than half the number that could stay and about the maximum that one hospiterero could care for.
This morning after everyone had left we stripped the bunks, washed the sheets, mopped, cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms, then made the beds. Finally after 11:30, I had a chance to clean up and go in search of breakfast and WiFi. Two café con leches and a bit of tortilla and I’m ready for my first full day as a hospitalero.
The albergue is a donotivo, opens at 14 and there is no WiFi yet.
Hi Bruce,Last night we had an interesting group of 11 Pilgrims; 4 Spanish, 4 French, one American, an Australian, and a Canadian hospitalero walking to Grañon for his posting. He had worked in Nájera several times so he was a wonderful source of information about the city and it’s citizens.
No one from the city has contacted us during the 6 days I’ve been here. Monday I will go to city hall to see if anyone can tell us what to do with the donations the pilgrims leave.
Yes Tom says HI! We are having dinner at El Buen Yantar with 3 other hospitaleros from Grañón and Mary Louisa the new hospitalera in Nájera.Hi Bruce,
Your Canadian would have been our friend, Tom. Granon is reopening Monday. Tom and his fellow hospitalero, Angelo from Italy, have run a singing workshop for hospitaleros in past years in late November. He has sponsored a Zoom Saturday singing session for a few hospitaleros around the globe the past year or so and my husband, Phil, participates. Tom also teaches classes for Canadians wanting to be hospitaleros.
Enjoy your time! We always love to volunteer for a few weeks.
Janet
That's great! Hello from Phil and Janet in Wyoming.Yes Tom says HI! We are having dinner at El Buen Yantar with 3 other hospitaleros from Grañón and Mary Louisa the new hospitalera in Nájera.
Hi Rebekah. Thank you very much for this information. I wanted to include in my manuscript (working title: Cuckoo Me), something about the origins of the Spanish language as I thought it might be of interest to my readers—all 3 of them.El Buen Yantar was open a couple of weeks ago, filled up to the half-capacity permitted by Covid rules -- the lady in charge zealously keeps to the rules. Maybe it's closed for vacation?
The first written evidence of what we know as the Spanish language -- and the Basque language, too -- were notes scrawled in the margins of a manuscript in the library at the 11th c. Monastery of San Millan de Cogolla (https://g.co/kgs/ETBPNE ) a big monastic complex about 25 km. from Najera. The manuscript and the library and the great moldering convent are still there, as well as the smaller original cave-church up on the hill where Millan first did his thing back in the 6th century. Daily buses will take you there, and you can stay in the nearby town or the luxury monastery hospederia/hotel, which offers a nice pilgrim rate.
A worthwhile side trip for those with time and resources. (there's a waymarked trail from San Millan onward to Santo Domingo).
People were speaking the languages a long way before someone tried writing them, so no one can say this is where Spanish came from, just that it's the first place we know it was written-down.Hi Rebekah. Thank you very much for this information. I wanted to include in my manuscript (working title: Cuckoo Me), something about the origins of the Spanish language as I thought it might be of interest to my readers—all 3 of them.
That's important. In the same way the Japanese were able to record (in written language) the "Orphan Tsunami" that originated along the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the present day coast of Washington State, but there was no written record on this side of the Pacific Ocean as the local First Nations Peoples were a proto-culture at the time with no way of describing—other than orally—the impact of this 9.0 magnitude earthquake. The Japanese pinpointed it at January 27, 1700.People were speaking the languages a long way before someone tried writing them, so no one can say this is where Spanish came from, just that it's the first place we know it was written-down.
And not at all from Sth Australia yet...Not to derail the thread, but that must be the first Australian for ages! Unless it is someone who has been out of the country since the pandemic began. Or someone very keen. We have only been allowed to travel overseas since 4 November.
You are a super star as all other hospitalarios - thank you thank you thank youI arrived at the Nájera municipal albergue last night to cheers from the pilgrims and a hug from the volunteer hospitalero. There were supposed to be two volunteers on duty, but one had left suddenly. There were 27 pilgrims staying the night. 27 was more than half the number that could stay and about the maximum that one hospiterero could care for.
This morning after everyone had left we stripped the bunks, washed the sheets, mopped, cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms, then made the beds. Finally after 11:30, I had a chance to clean up and go in search of breakfast and WiFi. Two café con leches and a bit of tortilla and I’m ready for my first full day as a hospitalero.
The albergue is a donotivo, opens at 14 and there is no WiFi yet.
Heidi,
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