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I've seen mention in a couple of Camino books of an eccentric couple of guys who like to think of themselves as Knights Templar and they run an albergue. Has anyone here had experience with them? Are they still there?
We only stopped for a moment, and didn't go inside. What is it about the place that makes people feel uncomfortable?
Wasn't me.Great post Annie. One of the best in a long while. Thank you for giving us the nice lesson. (I now forgive you for taking the last room in a hostel I tried to get into last June somewhere on the Camino that I just cannot remember where we were....
I did find another bed in the next village as I recall so all was well....
The thing I remember most about Tomas was him coming to Rabanal with the intention of burning the Municipal refugio to the ground . . . . It was summer 2002 and a young Spanish peregrina had tragically died of meningitis there and he was worried a plague would spread west along the Camino and only fire would cleanse the pestilence. A couple of us (hospitaleros at Gaucelmo) walked up to Manjarin the next day to try and placate him. I couldn't keep up with his Spanish but was told he considered the Municipal little more than a filthy plague pit (it wasn't, actually it was spotless kept by the local midwife).
I walked past Manjarin in 2003 and he had em calmed down a little but was wearing combat pants and a Templar flag as a cape. Definitely a character though, definitely; but I wouldn't say Manjarin was any worse than say the bar in Hontanas where the washing up water was darker than then coffee
One of the constant theme on this forum, about many topics, is: "trust your instincts".
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Now I am more curious than ever. People say they are nice, helpful, welcoming, etc. and also creepy, scary and that it's an uncomfortable place to stay. What happens there that makes people skittish?
Great post Annie. One of the best in a long while. Thank you for giving us the nice lesson. (I now forgive you for taking the last room in a hostel I tried to get into last June somewhere on the Camino that I just cannot remember where we were....
I did find another bed in the next village as I recall so all was well....
A story my bishop told me on Sunday [ see post above ] was when he was having breakfast after staying overnight with Thomas. A walker who had stayed the previous night at Rabanal arrived and asked for some breakfast. It was just after daybreak so this fellow had walk through Foncebadon and past the iron cross in the dark. Thomas refused to offer him any hospitality, saying that he was a runner, not a pilgrim, and therefore unworthy of any assistance from Thomas.
Alan
Be brave. Life is joyous.
A story my bishop told me on Sunday [ see post above ] was when he was having breakfast after staying overnight with Thomas. A walker who had stayed the previous night at Rabanal arrived and asked for some breakfast. It was just after daybreak so this fellow had walk through Foncebadon and past the iron cross in the dark. Thomas refused to offer him any hospitality, saying that he was a runner, not a pilgrim, and therefore unworthy of any assistance from Thomas.
Alan
Be brave. Life is joyous.
As far as I know, Rabanal still offers breakfast around 6.30. [but it is not free, it is donativo] But the man in question arrived at Thomases just after day break so had left Rabanal much earlier than 6.30.But you get a free breakfast at Rabanal! He must have left VERY early - we used to open the kitchen at 6.30.
We stopped for coffee. Interesting place, but the lack of facilities put me off. The latrine is a hole in the floor of a very rough outhouse.
Lol. Reminded me of my childhood!That is a huge step up to what it used to beBuen camino, SY
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