St. Anthony

Today brought lots of lovely blessings.  The walk started before dawn in order to avoid the heat later in the day.  The path today was mostly a gravel path by the road lined with flowers.  East of Fromista, the canal gave a refreshing backdrop for 2km.  But the delight of all unplanned blessings came when I checked into the albergue in Boadilla and the church bells started ringing like crazy.   Turns out that St. Anthony is their patron here.  So there was Mass in the middle of the day which the whole town attended.   It started with a procession of their St. Anthony statue through the whole town accompanied with their little 3 man band.  It was great!  The hostal had a feast for everyone.... there is a concert in the plaza tonight.  I suspect it will go all night.  There may not be much sleep.... but I suspect it will be a blast!