Today we are in Bercianos del Camino. This is the last remaining town where we did not have a good handle on the albergue situation. We were at the parrochial albergue 3 years ago. The facilities are ok and the communal dinner was very good. The problem is that they want groups from each country to perform an act for everyone. We don't feel like doing any performance and we can't play hockey or curling for them. So we were trying to find an alternative. Fortunately yesterday when we arrived at Terradillo los Templarios, we saw a little flyer advertising for a new albergue in Bercianos del Carmino. We called to reserve our beds.
Today, a long 23 km later, we arrived in Albergue la Perala. Everything looks familiar, the arrangement of the restaurant, the rooms and the menu and even the location on the albergues just ahead of the town proper. To top it off the hospitalera bears a fair resemblance of the hospitalera we saw yesterday. Makes us wonder about the family business running both albergues.
Perhaps because this is new, there are not many pilgrims staying here. So it is relatively quiet. Not that we mind.
So we are almost at the end, one more day of strenuous walking and an easy day into Leon. We are still seeing familiar faces. The new faces come and are gone mainly because they are fast walkers who caught up to us and then left us behind in no time. People with similar speed are the ones that we see all the time. Maybe a couple of more days ...
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