We are up early to feed & caffeinate our peregrinos and then send them off with a Buen Camino hug and (hopefully) all their belongings. (One day I found three black bras that had been left behind. In different places. Honestly!).

Once they all are gone – ideally by 8:30am ¡Vámanos! — it’s  for Peter and me to eat our breakfast. Susanna at our neighboring tienda gives us organic eggs from her chickens and I cut some herbs from our garden to make some unapologetically delicious huevos revueltos.

Well we need our strength for the cleaning frenzy which follows.

The dorms, bathrooms and kitchen are cleaned to a sparkle. Maybe not quite up to a German hausfrau’s standards but certainly clean enough to have allowed me to use nearly all of Pedro’s products.  

The main dorm sleeps 24 and the “barn” sleep another 16. We also can accommodate campers in the jardín.

The outside gate is locked until we open again and we can hear the peregrinos lining up and rattling the door as we clean.  ¡Estamos cerrados! ¡Vete!

We check them in, get them settled into a bunk (hey you young and heathy folks! take a top bunk, por favor), serve up a tea time, send them off to vespers and pilgrim blessings and hopefully have time at some point for an hospitalero happy hour. It’s all much more fun than it sounds.