April 19 Iterteo de La Vega to Frómista: 10.6 miles.
April 19 Iterteo de La Vega to Frómista: 10.6 miles. We left around 7:15 this morning and we were glad to leave this little Pueblo behind. Not much of a soul here, pretty much a ghost town. What a great sunrise as we left! Though we had to walk backwards to see it. We arrived in Boadilla del Camino and had a coffee at the Albergue En El Camino. I wish we would have walked the extra Kms and stayed here last night. They now have private rooms , a rural hotel and a very new, modern bar. The owner is as wonderful as we remember him from 6 years ago. We arrived in Fromista at 11:15 and we were disappointed that Albergue Luz was “completo”. We have been resistant to booking ahead - up until now so we went ahead and booked the next 4 days. We checked into the Hotel San Pedro which is next door to “Luz”, for 60 euros, a double room. We had a really nice meal at Los Palmeros, a restaurant we wanted to go to in 2010 but was closed then. This is a high end restaurant- great food by and s fantastic wine list. Very glad we ate here. The restaurant is across the street from our hotel. Mass at Iglesia de San Pedro , also across the stree, is at 8:00 tonight, not 1:00 as I thought.
We’ll after a well deserved rest we went out to go to mass and have a few tapas. As we are standing by the church a bunch of Spanish pilgrims tell us they talked to some nuns who said there would be no mass, the priest was in the hospital. So off we go looking for a bar to have a some wine and tapas. Everything was closed except one seedy bar. Walking back to our room we see the church doors are open so we go in and they are having mass😡. We went in and stayed for the last part of the mass and a pilgrims blessing, something is better than nothing. No food so off to bed 😢.
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