Today was the 10th stage of the traditional Camino Francés. A fairly easy stage.

I’ve been lucky with the weather so far. It was warm today, but not too hot. I understand it is currently pouring over the last 100 km of the Camino, but that is still 2 weeks away for me.

I managed to get to Belorado before everything closed and had some tortilla espanola. I checked in at my albergue with a line of other tired pilgrims. The hospitalera very kindly spoke to me in very deliberate Spanish. I asked for the peregrino dinner and “take-away” breakfast (I learned that it was necessary to use this expression in English).

This place has a pool (!), but it was too cold to go in it, and I didn’t want to deal with the extra wet clothes. One of the other peregrinos did, though, and was shivering when she got out. I put my feet in for a few minutes.

I was seated for the pilgrim’s dinner with two ladies from Japan and one from Korea. Fortunately, their common language was English. Food was only okay, but good enough.

I realized that none of the beds had blankets on them. Or sheets, but I have my own sheet. I asked about it and was able to rent a blanket for 2 euro. Good thing, as it was way too cold to sleep without one!

It is a long, 23 km climb to San Juan de Ortega tomorrow. I couldn’t book a bed there, so I’ll either need to walk another 10 km to the next town or try my taxi luck again.