La Hutte

October 3

La Hutte sits behind the parish church and is a 20-bed converted barn. 

Lovely rafters but we can see sky through small holes and gaps.  

The view from the garden looks back toward a well-known archaeological site (closed for the season).

And there are blankets!  Perhaps most important, though, there is a washing machine.  Once we get our laundry hung on the line, we go to the plaza, where supposedly there is WiFi access.  It seems to be common for the villages and small towns to have an open network in a public area, usually the plaza.  The signal is also usually very weak--so weak that it takes about half an hour to upload two old posts waiting in my queue.  That's all I have time to do before dinner.

The dining room is crowded.  People waiting for the 7:00 sitting to finish mill about in the bar area.  The woman and her son who run the albergue appear to own and operate the connected small restaurant and hotel.  

The food is delicious and we meet a delightful British couple sitting at the table next to us (but we're so close we might as well be at the same table).  How ironic that they have to waste time so they don't reach Burgos (as far as they're going this time) too soon, while we're feeling the pressure to do as many kilometers a day as possible.

Total today: 30.4 km