It was a very cloudy day to start with. The Camino went close to the river in a very green surroundings. After some hours we passed a small village and tried to get a little morning coffee. But could not find a bar. Nevertheless we found a private house that had sort of self service bar so the owner left us with a kettle of warm water and some jugs and cookies. And - not to forget - the perrogrino (the dog pilgrim), but he was rather sleepy.
I still had problems with my stomach but the coffee was OK. Obviously as long as you did not feed the dog cookies. So we didn't. The day went on and we passed over a dam and then the along the reservoir. Good surroundings.
The German lady wanted to stop at "Rio Negro del Puente". Probably a wise decision in the afterthought. After having eaten a little I continued another 10 km to Mombuey. It was raining all the time. After a while I decide to put on my big German rain poncho. Had anyone been making U-Tube video, this exercise could have entertained you all for quarter of an hour or more. Eventually I got it on.I found the albergue, but it was extremely basic, the most basic albergue I have experienced. A stone hut with one part where to sleep and one toilet/shower, without the possibility of avoiding shower water flowing over the floor(!) No electric contacts except for the heater on the floor. It was sort of help-yourself and the fee was donativo. Besides me there were 5 catalan speaking guys from Barcelona. They went out to eat. I intended to follow them but my stomach told me that it only wanted me to provide it a little to drink. It got that and I went to bead early.
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