Casa Avelina

[TravellingMan22]

@Peterexpatkiwi and a few others have mentioned this place on the Ingles, and a know a few folks are planning an Ingles Camino so I though I would share the tip.

Just a place with a real buzz and certainly a highlight of any Camino. It’s just north of Bruma.

I was there today and loved it. I didn’t have much of a breakfast in Betanzos so was very hungry when I got there. Just as well as the ‘normal size’ bocadillo was huge even by Spain standards. What was quite interesting was that I ordered Tomato and Tuna, it came out with just Tomato in, accompanied by a full unopened can of Tuna. It amazing how difficult opening a can of tuna without making a mess can be on a hot day after 15kms.

I loved to have got settled in and cracked on with the vino, but sadly (or maybe thankfully) I am staying in Ordes so there was still lots of ground to cover!

 

[jcat]

My bocadillo there in 2023. *won't let me upload a pic, but it was huge!

 

[TravellingMan22]

My bocadillo there in 2023. *won't let me upload a pic, but it was huge!

Indeed. I didn’t realise and seeing ‘normal size’… I nearly ordered two! First time I have been given a carving knife with a bocadillo!

 

[Kirkie]

It is certainly a place to remember. The day we dropped in, or drooped in, soaking wet, the two sisters who run the place were all over the shop, literally, helping all the sodden pilgrims and restoring us with kindness.

 

[Tincatinker]

There is one spot on the Camino Ingles that will one day, sadly but ultimately, become a shrine. I have met those sisters in sunshine and in rain in good humour and as pissed off as a Tinker can get when inclined. Them, they’ve just done their thing: feed, water, heed, nurture.

There’s an odd way in which they can meet a need that even the needy may not have realized that they had.

I told Avelina “last time, this time”. She laughed…

 

[crackmrmac]

Lovely to read your stories. Passed by recently in mid October wet morning and considered stopping for second breakfast / removing poncho etc
Blah, blah. I walked onwards. Maybe next time

Buen Camino.

 

[Tincatinker]

Lovely to read your stories. Passed by recently in mid October wet morning and considered stopping for second breakfast / removing poncho etc
Blah, blah. I walked onwards. Maybe next time

Buen Camino.

You’ll find yourself there when you need to be