(Kansas Voice) Carrion de Los Condes

A little chapel on the way out of Fromista:

The portal of Santa Maria la Blanca in Villacazar de Sirga:

Some sort of tower on the way out of Villacazar:

What appear to be municipal silos on the way into Carrion de Los Condes, where I put up.

After feeling a bit crowded for a couple of days, I stayed in an albergue that offered single rooms, run by Philipine nuns. In addition to being VERY quiet, it was fun because nobody at the desk spoke any English, so I had to scrape my brain and gesture creatively to sort out a room and figure out where I had to go to do laundry (have I mentioned that I have, to date, exclusively been hand-washing my clothes on this trip?) Everything worked out, and it was ultimately pretty rewarding.

Here's a tower from the window of my monastic cell:

There were only three other people at dinner. I would think that people would be more keen for the respite, but perhaps it stays under wraps somehow.

After leaving Carrion in the morning, it’s 17k to the next town, through vast expanses of (currently empty) fields.

Titus (1999)

Here are my feet on a tower set up to give you to admire the expanses.

Arriving at Calzadilla is a bit of a letdown, especially when it’s swarmed with people. I passed through quickly. Enjoy this video from Ledigos, a couple towns down the road, of birds snagging crumbs to the strains of Total Eclipse of the Heart.

I was supposed to stay at the first town after this, called Terradillos de Los Templarios, but my target albergue was full. Instead I moved on to a place called Albergue San Bruno in a town called Moratinos. As this was last minute, I did not, to my shame, pause for photos on the way.