Tonight we’re staying at the 43rd albergue since starting this adventure.

It’s a very nice, small, family run place. It has 4 bunk beds (8 beds total) downstairs, and some private rooms upstairs. The hosts prepare a meal in the evening, everything homemade using local, fresh ingredients. 

It’s been raining all day, so people staying here are hanging ponchos and other things wherever they can to dry them out.

Staying at a different place every night, night after night, has been probably one of the more wearisome aspects of the pilgrimage. A different bed, pillow, different people in the same room with you … sometimes you sleep very well, other times not so much. Sometimes the host/s will go out of their way to make your stay pleasant, other times they are hardly there at all. Sometimes the place is old, sometimes newer, sometimes really well maintained, other times not so much. And so it goes.

The very first we stayed at, in St-Jean-Pied-de-Port

The second and largest we stayed at, in Roncesvalles

After what was probably the most tiring of all the walks, we got to have this whole big room with 10 beds all to ourselves. We slept great!

The Municipal in Burgos, inexpensive first come first served, but really good.

The host of this albergue personified kindness and patience more so than anyone else I met here so far. Thank you, Pedro!

And finally, in Fonfría, a fantastic place. Great service, clean, comfortable, excellent food and a good show of Galician music at the end.

I have 5 more left to go before flying back home. I am looking forward to my own bed, blanket, pillow …. Yeah!