Charlie. Wynette read in an albergue review about a woman yelling at a pilgrim because they stayed at a private albergue in Rabé instead of the municipal one and that they weren’t a real pilgrim and that her albergue was open to everyone.
We got to Rabé and had a reservation at the private albergue. Walking back to the bar we passed the municipal albergue shown above and asked the woman sitting there where the bar was. She started talking about how her albergue was open to everyone and essentially she said her pilgrims were truer. She mentioned how the bar was owned by the brother of the woman who owned the private albergue. She wasn’t yelling but we think it might be the same woman.
Later we were talking to a Swedish woman we had met before (shown below)
and she said someone in our albergue, the private one, had told her that they had first gone to the municipal albergue and the woman had questioned her for half an hour before letting her into the albergue and she had fled to the private one. So the Albergue manager seems to be a strange one.
The day before we met our “angel” of the Camino (previous post) she had also warned us about the private albergue in Rabé and how true pilgrims didn’t stay there and the municipal was open to everyone.
So something is going on here. Some kind of feud between albergues in Rabé.
As we were walking into Rabé we asked a guy how to get to our albergue and he said his sister Tina ran it and took us there. He looked like a guy who ran the bar in Rabé that we had seen on our previous trip. We asked Tina if her brother owned the bar and she said yes. On going to the bar we found and see the guy who was the one we remembered but not the one who directed us. So Tina has two brothers and they own the Albergue and the bar and maybe are some kind of local mafia and that is part of the feud.
Anyway lots going on in Rabé.