Day 16 Boadilla to Carrion del Camino

Spent 3 hours last night forward booking all Camino accommodation and reading my Brierley Camino Guide Book. I have some knowledge of the second half of the journey. It's all about to change !
Today's walk was an early start out the door in the dark at 7am to cover 26km of long flat track across the Meseta. Caught up with Joanna and Bob at Fromista breaky stop and our chatter passed the kms quickly.
Arrived in Carrion del Camino and overwhelmed by my private room accommodation tonight in The Real Monestary San Zoile, a repurposed 11th Century massive Monestary, WOW !
Met a lovely pilgrim from Singapore, Reyna, also staying there, had lunch together at the Monastry restaurant located on the top floor amongst 1000 year old beams, it was a surreal setting.
An a la carte lunch of bread, wine, cold tomato soup, tuna pickle salad, sirloin steak and cheesecake with cookie and fig icecream, decafinado coffee. Followed by a long hot bath in my 1000 yr old room filled with character.
An evening walk led Reyna and I to the 7pm Santa Maria church mass where we met our pilgrim friend Kathy and after mass received a Pilgrims blessing by the singing nuns. Quite a special highlight.Read more