Day 15 - Frómista to Carrión de los Condes

Today is a festival day (Fiesta Nacional de España) in Spain, meaning that nearly everything is closed. Despite that, I can't exactly take a day off. The landscape is still very, very flat and I expect nothing different for the next few days. In Carrión de los Condes, I stayed in a simple, yet nice albergue, run by nuns. I'm not sure what order they are from. I attended mass at the Church of Santa Maria next door, yet another amazingly beautiful church in Spain. I think it was because of the holiday that dinner was a little difficult to find. After mass, the only restaurant in town that seemed to serve a pilgrim's menu was completo, or full. So I went a few doors down to a bar, had a couple of cervezas with some other pilgrims, until I could get in for dinner. When I went back to the restaurant, the only spot was at a table with 3 French people, also pilgrims, who had not ordered yet. Two of them speak excellent English, but it was still fun to test the amount of French I remember from highschool and college!

On I walk.