The Monastery Villadedios, where we were just hoping to find directions, but we saw a sign that they accepted peregrinos for the night. So now almost three in the afternoon we decided to stay, it was just about completely empty and very quiet with noone around with the exception of a couple on a tour of the church chapel.
After we paid the lowest price of any albergue of just 5€ and were invited to attend a mass and ceremony where 3 nuns would be joining the Carmelite Order. We were too far from any town, we thought we would not have much to eat so we ended up buying the pilgrims dinner but ended up eating it in the morning.
There were many people at the chapel, with family and locals. We sat in the back and witnessed the beautiful singing and praying during the ceremony.
They invited us to join them for the celebration where they all gathered and talked with the guests, there was lots of food on the table for us to eat. It was a lovely time with the sisters. As the evening wound down they asked us to go into their kitchen and get our dinner but since we had eaten during the celebration we ended having our bought dinner for the morning as there would not be anyone to tend to us at the time we would be leaving in the morning.
As usual in the Camino, we were lost today and in need of help and it turned out to be one of the best evenings of our tour.
After we paid the lowest price of any albergue of just 5€ and were invited to attend a mass and ceremony where 3 nuns would be joining the Carmelite Order. We were too far from any town, we thought we would not have much to eat so we ended up buying the pilgrims dinner but ended up eating it in the morning.
There were many people at the chapel, with family and locals. We sat in the back and witnessed the beautiful singing and praying during the ceremony.
They invited us to join them for the celebration where they all gathered and talked with the guests, there was lots of food on the table for us to eat. It was a lovely time with the sisters. As the evening wound down they asked us to go into their kitchen and get our dinner but since we had eaten during the celebration we ended having our bought dinner for the morning as there would not be anyone to tend to us at the time we would be leaving in the morning.
As usual in the Camino, we were lost today and in need of help and it turned out to be one of the best evenings of our tour.
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