{"id":84004,"date":"2014-04-26T10:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-the-royal-monastery-of-samos\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T16:34:06","slug":"one-year-ago-the-royal-monastery-of-samos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-the-royal-monastery-of-samos\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Ago: the Royal Monastery of Samos"},"content":{"rendered":"

(from my journal)<\/p>\n

R<\/span>oyal Monastery of Samos
\n26 April 2013<\/p>\n

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We Happy Few: Leaving Fonfr\u00eda (me, Iaian, Fraincine, Bob, Anja)<\/p><\/div>\n

Francine and I had a shorter walk today to Samos through beautiful Galician misty farmland and woods with Anja. <\/p>\n

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During second breakfast, who should come ’round the bend but Eamon!<\/p>\n

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Lunched in Triacastela and the mist finally more or less lifted.<\/p>\n

Arrived in Samos with Eamon and Francine and booked into the monastery albergue.<\/p>\n

Galicia seems like home – almost a faerie-tale country – and the first view of Samos from the overlooking hill took my breath away.<\/p>\n

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Toured the monastery with Eamon and Radek. <\/p>\n

Beautiful chanted Mass and Vespers later with the monks (or some of them – I’m not actually entirely clear on how many there are) was a moving and uplifting experience, even if I understood barely a word (Latin more than Spanish). My overwhelming feeling as we walked through the great cloister was that I was made for the monastery.<\/p>\n

Dinner – caldo Gallega!<\/p>\n

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Even more photos<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(from my journal) Royal Monastery of Samos 26 April 2013 Francine and I had a shorter walk today to Samos through beautiful Galician misty farmland and woods with Anja. During second breakfast, who should come ’round the bend but Eamon! Lunched in Triacastela and the mist finally more or less lifted. Arrived in Samos with Eamon and Francine and booked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13992012756_f094f9c6ce_b.jpg?fit=1024%2C765&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-lQU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61976,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/royal-monastery-of-samos\/","url_meta":{"origin":84004,"position":0},"title":"Royal Monastery of Samos","author":"Thom","date":"28 April 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"26 April We walked through the Galician mists today, to the magnificent monastery of Samos. 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