A gloomy Hostel, and rain all night

After my accident I hobbled on to arrive just before Dark in Mealhada at a hostel that more deserved the name "Den".
I had got the last bed in a dormitory with 20 beds and a mixture of workers and pilgrims.
In this gloomy, moist building, one small weak lamp lit the space and one tiny window supplied the air The showers were such that one didn't want to enter barefoot.
All night long snoring filled this stuffy, moist space without air!
What a night!
This morning I discovered that there was also a modern part to this complex that a group of 30 Pilgrims had taken in one block.
While their luggage was loaded into two large vans, they gathered in a large circle to pray, going three times through a whole rosary chain of Ave Maria's and prayers, a process that took nearly 45 minutes.

The deep irony in the picture I took, was that the very representative of the technocratic future, "GOOGLE", stood right in the middle of these praying pilgrims in the form of a "Google Street view" vehicle that was busy filming the city streets of Portugal.Read more