Ledigos to Bercianos del Real Camino

Another day on the Maseta. The towns are free and far between and quite empty. Bercianos was like a ghost town. The hospitalero told us there are very few people who live there anymore, some come for summer holidays but it’s mostly just pilgrims now. Apparently Spain is like a donut with most of the inhabitants around the outside, similar to Australia. The middle is the wheatbelt. Dry and quite empty. Much harder to get coffee and food and provisions like it was earlier in our walk. We stayed in a lovely Donativo in a beautiful old building. We got the last beds, they ended up putting a few pilgrims on the floor on mats. I had to really beg them to let me reserve a bed for Ed as he was again very late in. This time he did get a taxi for the last part of the trip… he was happy to miss the vego pilgrim shared meal & went out to the bar. There was a wonderful atmosphere in the Donativo with older Spanish men with no English singing in Spanish. We all went up to a lookout point to watch the sunset before returning for fruit salad, the meal was prepared by the lovely volunteers who were from Brazil. There was also shared reflection on the Camino learning and candles & a blessing. Beautiful evening. It was a shame Ed missed it all.Okumaya devam et