Oncina de la Valdoncina 2

As the afternoon progressed the rest of the albergue’s occupants arrived, including 2 friends (an Australian and a Czech) who I met last week when we stayed at the convent ruins.

In all we were 3 Australians, 2 French, 1 Dutch, 1 Czech, 1 Italian, 1 German and 1 Brit.

We enjoyed a delicious chicken paella cooked in a huge pan, with salad, chorizo, cheese and bread and followed by a chocolaty-custardy dessert, all washed down with lots of wine.

After the meal, we had a singsong together, with 2 playing the guitar for us, and attempting to find songs that most of us knew, including Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds and Keane’s Somewhere only we know.Read more