Today is Palm Sunday. Pilgrims left in a timely manner today. Benjamin was the last out. We got a good cleaning in today. Like every other day we went to one of the bars for a cafe con leche and a pastry. Nothing much in our emails. We get a note from Tex. A guy we took our training with, is on the Camino, about 9 days away. He should get here our last days here.
Today's mass is at 1 pm. The have the celebration of las Ramas before mass. Instead of palm leaves, they use olive branches. Everyone gathers in the village square, gets a branch and then Father Jesus gives a blessing and then everyone marches into the church singing. When mass is over Jesus tells the congregation that at 5 there will be a concert in the church by the local children. As we get back to the albergue a man named Angel comes by with his boys and a few. Others to borrow 40 chairs from us for the concert After they leave we go to the almacen for lunch. Then to the bar for a vino. Our old men friends are there and give us a hearty welcome.
No pilgrims yet. We welcome the rest, but worry if we will get any. Kind of hard to plan dinner without knowing who you will be feeding. Finally at 4:30 we get 2 bicycle pilgrims, Jose Antonio and his wife Mercedes. They are from Barcelona. I give them the albergue welcome, tell them about the concert and we leave. The concert was packed, people from our village and others near by are attending. The music was pretty good considering we are talking about kids between ages 8 and 12.
We return to the albergue, no more pilgrims only 2 for the day! So we just fry up some potatoes, cook some pork chops and have a salad. Jose Antonio is another fervent Catalan independence type. I learn his parents are originally from Andalusia. So he's not even Catalan.
Jose Antonio and Mercedes go to bed and Palma and I go out to the bar. Run into the old men gang again. 2 bars in town and what they do is go to one bar and have a drink, then go to the other bar and have a drink, and repeat. So funny!
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