[Gocamino] New albergue in Burgos... other

[Blaroli at aol.com]

Hello you all,
The "Divina Pastora" albergue has opened its facilities in Burgos.  Surely 
Camino Frances pilgrims will be delighted, particularly those who remember the 
old Burgos albergue:  hard to find, indistinct in the very-far-from-the- 
Gorgeous-Cathedral area,  lost in the here-and-there-green, mostly yellow-dry-grass 
sort-of urban parkland abutting a busy motor thoroughfare ... praying for a 
bus.
The much touted new albergue sponsored by the municipal authorities has hit 
one snag after the other owing to, perhaps, more vision and ambition than sober 
realistic planning.
The new Burgos albergue is in need of "hospitaleros"or "hospitaleras". If 
you'd like to volunteer send an e-mail to :
                                                ovidiocampo at eresmas.com

they'll  do the needed paperwork.

In other joyous news, it has been officially announced that the Princess of 
Asturias, Lettuce, is three months pregnant and, God willing, will give birth 
to a child next November.
During some of the Xacobean Holy Year's  ceremonies last year  I saw the 
Prince and Princess in attendance. In stature she is, or seems, a very small 
person; no more that 5'2" or so, and quite thin.. The Prince is well over 6 feet 
with an athletic bearing.  At the ceremonies she appeared, now and then, to be 
tired and/or overburdened;  the tender and solicitous never-failing attention 
of her Prince-husband looked like real love to hardened jaded me.
As we all know, she was an honors-earning graduate student who became a very 
popular TV news anchor and had been married once before.  When I asked those 
people I know in Santiago and Seville how they could reconcile her former 
marriage with her new status they told me that her earlier marriage had not been in 
church and, therefore, was not meaningful.  They were eager and happy to add 
what I presume to be the reason behind her immense popularity, that she will 
be the first Queen of Spain to actually be born a Spaniard in centuries and 
centuries and centuries.
You'll remember that Queen Sophia, born a Greek,  was rumored to have really 
walked the Camino in gratitude for her only son's wedding.
As one that has lived a full life, (and then some), and  who would give 
pretty much all I have, or do all I could, to gaze  upon grandchildren someday, 
I'll fully understand if Queen Sophia walks the Camino all the way from Greece, 
barefoot.
-I should be really envious.... and, yet, I feel like raising  a glass or two 
of bubbly toasting to the happy event.
Leticia and her husband, the Prince, have chosen  not to learn the gender of 
their baby until it is born, nor decide upon a name..
Santiago, anyone?
Warm regards,
Rosina