Calzadilla de las Cueza to Sahagún

May 25 - Calzadilla de la Cueza to Sahagún
Everyone in the albergue got up early and seemed to want to rush out of there. We were on two floors with about 30 in each room and it seemed like about a third of the people left at about 5:00, and another third about 6:00. We were up just after 6:00 and heading down to the road to the bar for breakfast in spite of our lack of sleep and the bathroom rush. I don't think that anyone slept very well and yet everyone seemed to feel different. There were lots of good humoured jokes while we stood around waiting for each other to get out of the way in the bathroom and somehow people seemed to feel pretty good. Our breakfast in the bar was a nice change - toasted bread and scrambled eggs and ham and the ever delicious Spanish coffee. So we were well set up for our longer walk today - about 22.5 kilometers to Sahagún.
Today's path was thankfully different than yesterday's. It wasn't as flat or straight or well-groomed. It had curves and bumps and irregularities. And for whatever reason everyone seemed to be enjoying it a whole lot more. Certainly we did. And even though it was 5 kilometers longer it seemd a lot shorter. Who knows what yesterday was al about? Maybe it was the full moon and the luar eclipse that was supposed to happen somewhere in the world that night. But whatever it was it seemed to make everybody crazy for a short time and we were definitely all glad that day was over.

We went to the first albergue we saw as we got into Sahagún - right on the edge of town. It was called Albergue Viatories. As it turned out it was a great place to stay. It had both hotel rooms and an albergue but for once they didn't try to cram as many people into the albergue as possible. They had cubicles of four with each bed enclosed on three sides and at least 10 or 12 feet across to the next bed. It was a nice setup and we could eat right there as well. Everyone was in a much calmer mood for this night and there weren't even any particularly loud snorers. It was however really cold and even with my sleeping bag I wasn't warm enough and didn't know they had blankets. The only other downside was that they served little packages of sweet things for breakfast so we left after only coffee.