The hotel staff were terrific this morning, breakfast is served after 8 am and since we had to leave by 8, they left us last night a generous care package with juice, fruit, muffin and a bottle of water. We came downstairs early to get a coffee. When the lady from the front desk saw us she came immediately to set the full breakfast buffet for us. So we had a good breakfast including freshly squeezed orange juice and a care package for the train.
Since we are pilgrims we walked the 30 minutes to the train station. The trip to Madrid was long from 9 am to 3 pm. Then we had to switch train station, from Cha Martin to Atocha, that meant we had to take the city train. I was impressed, the trains are comfortable and an information screen showed among other things the train speed which reached over 230 kph (the train from Madrid to Sevilla runs at 300 kph in some sections).
We sat in front of a couple. Very soon we found that they had just finished the Camino Frances. They are from Nebraska. She had bruises in both cheeks. She slipt and fell just after Sarria. It's good to know I not the only one that falls on the Camino.
We finally arrived to Sevilla at 7:30 pm, we took a taxi to the hotel and went out for a walk.
Just a block away is the convent of San Antonio, in front there was a crowd of people so we went to the k it out. It was another of these fabulous Spanish processions. Today is the feast of San Antonio so they were celebrating.
After the procession passed, we continued our walk, we went over to the river and enjoyed a bit of the river views. Sunset came very soon so we decided to call the day and go back to the hotel.
San Antonio, pray for us and our family. Help follow your example of charity and love for our fellow human beings.
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