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Be aware there two orders in Carrion. The Santa Maria albergue is the one where the sisters do the singing. The other, Santa Clara, is a nice place on the edge of town, but no singing.
The Santa Maria is on your left hand when you enter the town. Easy to find. I normally sleep with the nuns in Espiritu Santo, a few 100 m. further, bc. they only have solid wooden beds, no bunk beds. A pleasure.
Yes we booked there! Yay!
That albergue has a great green outdoor area, a small pool, and good food. Very friendly, family-run.
Hmmm...we were not separated and Phil and I were placed in a smaller room with 3 sets of bunk beds so he could be close to an outlet for his CPAP. It was mixed gender room and there was at least one other CPAP user in there. I remember only rooms with bunk beds.
Yes poor Eduardo working too hard ..
We enjoyed our stay in Carrion de los Condes and the singalong with the nuns. We were there on July 25, so it was an especially celebratory occasion. Note that there are two albergues run by nuns in Carrion de los Condes. If you want the one with the singalong you need the one next to the church, not the one in the convent. While it was nice, I'm not sure it would be worth taking pretty much a whole extra day for. I guess, pay attention to your physical condition and how much you could use a rest day.
Yes, that's correct. I have stopped there two times for beer and something to eat. He has a barbeque. Other times he has not been in business. In short: Hope for it. Don't count on it.
There are two places I love:
I think you may be confused as you are showing a photo of Albergue Espirito Santo. This is where they have rooms named after continents. There are rooms that are mixed and I think maybe rooms that are for only men or women. When I have been there it has been late in the year so there weren't many pilgrims and we were always in mixed dormitory rooms. The nuns here are wonderful also. I have no idea if they are of the same order as the nuns in Santa Maria.
“The Sisters of Mercy they are not departed nor gone,they were waiting for me when I thought I could not carry on…” WITH APOLOGIES TO LEONARD COHEN. Sleep with the nuns? Ambiguous I’m sureThe Santa Maria is on your right hand when you enter the town. Easy to find. I normally sleep with the nuns in Espiritu Santo, a few 100 m. further, bc. they only have solid wooden beds, no bunk beds. A pleasure.
bad habit to get into“The Sisters of Mercy they are not departed nor gone,they were waiting for me when I thought I could not carry on…” WITH APOLOGIES TO LEONARD COHEN. Sleep with the nuns? Ambiguous I’m sure
Which one?
Thank you!!
I’m with you. We LOVE the Meseta!!
My son and I just walked the Meseta, while I understand how it could be rough in the heat of the summer when all the fields are dry, it was nice during this time of year cuz the mornings were cool and the fields were green. We walked the Meseta like Snowwhites 7 Dwarfs. We wistled while we walked.
@Burton Axxe - the Sisters are usually there, but sometimes will be absent for brief times due to gatherings of their religious order, meetings, etc. Also you may have been there at Easter time and they may have been at their Monastery:
That happens in July, when Asociacion Camino Artes hosts its guitar master classes and workshops. There's a guitar-building workshop in that there church, and the concerts are scattered round the town's several churches. If you're lucky you can sometimes catch one of the teachers playing -- some of them are world-class symphony artists!
I did stay in the Esperitu Santo and it was a very pleasant stay. We cooked a dinner for 10 with italian pilgrims (whole family), Pasta, fresh vergetable and salat, some homestyle garlic bread with olive oil. Very yummy, very entertaining.
We were just in Carrion on April 20, 2023 and stayed at the Santa Maria. My husband and I were in the same room along with others from different countries and continents.
Carrion de los condos is great stopover lots to see do and the nuns singing and playing guitars fantastic experience and all pilgrims joing in don't miss it I'm planning 2 nights there 24 th 25 th May.buen camino
And don't forget to donate as your dinner contribution something more substantial than a four ounce packet of cookies. Just saying. They make the dinner from the day's donations. We contributed a batch of snickering (herring cream cheese spread) and crackers, sadly they were at the far end of the table near folks who hate fish most likely. In fact, if when we pass thru there again I might go to the grocery first and get them something with some substance for dinner. God willing and the crick don't rise, as they say.
Totally agree singing with nuns is a lovely experience but the mass is more so but it's a pity some or say most miss it sad to admit it's a worrying trend even back home Scotland less people attending mass but always pray for them also in the hope of returning to the faith.i have noticed over the last 12 years of doing caminos the spiritual reason for doing this journey has decreased and has been overtaken by the outdoor social crowd whatever your reason I like to think at least we're supporting lots of neede revenue for small communities across the camino.this year I reach carrion de los condos 24 th may.
Beautiful experience. I stayed at the beautiful monastery in the west end of Carrion, one of my delightful stays.
nothing? wow.
It's not nothing. It's just a lot of countryside. Millions of people have walked it, and lived to tell the tale. Very dramatic tales!
I was in carillion a couple of nights ago and was able to see the singing nuns. They are in the garden of the albergue at 6 pm and then at the mass next door at 7 pm.
ím sorry, rebekah, i was being sarcastic. walked last year and loved it- so rich and beautiful. i found every part of the camino very much “something” - beauty in eye of beholder….. anyway i shouldn’t have expressed snarkiest here so apologies
Rebekah was quoting your post in her reply, but anyone who reads carefully will know that it was really alexwalker that both she and you were responding to when he wrote "those 17 kms of nothing".
