Fromista to Carrion de Los Condes

We rose at 6am after a cold and rainy night, had a breakfast of toast and coffee and had to pay 5
Euros extra when we needed more caffeine. Not a fancy or cute place at all and we would not recommend the town even!. We had had dinner with our Swedish friends at a place that opened at 6pm an unheard of hour for the Spanish. The 9 € Pilgrim menu was pretty bad too. David was adventurous and had ox tail.

Today's walk was a rather soulless one along a track next to the highway for 20 KM and only an ascent of 50 meters. Weather was cold, and very overcast but while walking we did not really have any rain.
We had one interesting stop at Villalcazar de Sirga, which had the church of St Mary the White built by the Knights Templar in the 13th century. The church has a panel depicting the life of St. James. There is also a well known restaurant here called El Meson, but it didn't open for another 1 1/2 hrs, so we decided to continue on our way to our accommodations at the Convent of Santa Clara. The place was chosen because of the old family ties to Santa Clara, CA. The nuns are sequestered behind bars and don't mix with society. They bake cookies to sell and have an albergues along with a few separate en suite rooms (48 €). We confirmed the guide book that St Francis of Assisi stayed in these 13th century buildings.
Carrion is an historic town and has several churches among them one, Santa Maria del Camino, that has a doorway depicting the story that Clarion was once a place where the Moorish overlords required Christians to surrender 100 virgins every  year.

We had a delicious Perigrino Menu (9 € each) at a place near the Convent and my trout was delicious and I have gotten better at the whole de-boning process.

We don't have accommodation reservations for tomorrow as we are not sure of the distance that we can do, so we will see how tomorrow plays out. We got rained on going shopping for juice and the way to dinner. This was the last day of walking for our Swedish friends and they are working to get themselves to Madrid now. Many Europeans walk the Camino in tranches and thus complete it over a number of years.