Fromista Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I had planned on taking a very very slow, almost a day off, today. I wanted to just walk about 10 k to an ancient monastery where a group of italian volunteers run a pilgrim hospital. THere is no electricity and they do a ritual washing of pilgrims feet. Very authentic. I thought it would be a good change to sit and be alone and contemplative.

You can see the Spanish commitment to building a renewable energy resource base as you walk the Camino. On our journey today we passed at least a 100 wind turbines in a number of different fields. And in each of the places we stop and stay at you can see that same commitment. In Hotels you must turn on lights in hallways which are then automatic...

And here am I, on the 15th day of my journey, and here I belong, fighting for survival in the middle of nowhere, amongst all those princes of the universe who are starving and outnumbered but nevertheless charging the wheat fields of the meseta, eager to walk like warrior poets until they win their freedom forever or die trying. Oh, and by the w...

14 km. There was an obese man we passed on the trail and it reminded me of how the first congress spent lots of time discussing what they would call the president of the United States; many of them suggested "His Rotundity" (for John Adams) and this man on the trail was immediately christened with that name by Mould. The albergue at which we sta...