Hospitaleira Porto

When I walked through Santiago to the bus station, I came across a pilgrim that I had met a few days ago He was trying to find the bus to the airport, so I showed him the way before hopping on my bus to Porto. The Albergue de Peregrinos Porto with the green door is my home for the next two weeks. I'm volunteering as a hospitaleira (Albergue host) which means I get to clean floors, lockers, beds, and pretty much everything in the Albergue except the bathrooms. A cleaning lady sanitizes the bathrooms each day.
There is a team of 6 of us here. Three full time employees and three volunteers run the 52 bed hostel which welcome pilgrims from 14:30 to 20:00 hours each day. The Pilgrims have to leave by 10:00 hours the next morning and that's when our cleaning frenzy begins again. We must have hthe entire 3 floor building sparkling and ready for the next wave of pilgrims to arrive.
I was scheduled to cook lunch for the staff today, so I bought my supplies last night, which is challenging because I can't read Portuguese. Google translate came in handy when I was trying to read the type of meat I was buying. I made a honey garlic vegetable and sausage dish that my family likes and despite having to work with an ancient gas stove with no oven temperature markings, lunch was success!
Now we're fed and ready for our pilgrims. Bom Caminho!Read more