A Wild Day At The Albergue Grado

The day started out very mellow. I got up at 5:30am and set up breakfast for the pilgrims. They ate, drank coffee or tea or Cola Cao (don't ask,) got themselves and their gear together, gave lots of hugs and kisses and sweet thank yous as they left. 

Then we cleaned. After that I went to the Guardía Civil to turn in our paper work. It is somewhat discomforting to learn that police are pretty much the same silly everywhere. The procedure is more important than the purpose. 

After that I had a big bowl of cornflakes. Here's what cornflakes look like through a micro lense. 

While I was eating my cornflakes, Elidio saw this fellow on our outside wall. 

A few days ago, he saw this fellow in the river:

Elidio went to eat and to meet our Hospialera in training at the bus. Then the pilgrims started showing up. By the time Elidio returned with the Hospitalera in training, Bea, we were almost full. Bea is a sweetie and is very helpful. 

We've had some very interesting pilgrims through. One is sketching. Here's teo sketches he did of our Albergue embellished with stamps by Elidio:

I talked with another guy for a while. He is from France and speaks several languages, including Engliish. This is very unusual for a French person. Normally the French only speak French. He says English is not a romantic language, that it was derived from Gernan. Who knew?

Anyway, there are so many interesting and lovely people in the world. Somehow they never appear in news reports, but they give me hope. Yesterday, a young Spanish man was talking to me about American politics, particularly Trump. I guess folks in other countries are as baffled as we are about how this could happen. lol

Well we are packed to the gills tonight, over capacity. We have been at capacity every night since I've been here and have had to turn away 10 to 20 a night. There are lots of people walking this Camino right now. 

Well, time to sleep. Good night.