{"id":8146,"date":"2018-10-06T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2018-10-19T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T14:48:19","slug":"to-samos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/to-samos\/","title":{"rendered":"To Samos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>oday we walked about 17 km from Filloval to Samos. Last night&#8217;s sleep was a little rough thanks to a German pilgrim with a mighty snore!<\/p>\n<p>So we started late and sauntered through a haunting forest landscape dotted with tiny rural villages and tottering ruins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/to-samos\/img_7590-jpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8144\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7590-e1539960415458-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7590-e1539960415458-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7590-e1539960415458-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7590-e1539960415458-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7590-e1539960415458-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7590-e1539960415458-260x347.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7590-e1539960415458-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It began raining about noon, and by the time we arrived at Samos in the early afternoon, we were pretty well soaked.<\/p>\n<p>Samos is dominated by the Monastery of San Xuli\u00e1n. We checked into the hostel in  the monastery basement and grabbed some lunch in the village.<\/p>\n<p>Then we toured the monastery. It&#8217;s as beautiful as it is immense. I probably took a hundred photos on the tour. The monastic church might just be my favorite church on the whole Camino.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/to-samos\/img_7785-jpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8145\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7785-e1539960457899-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7785-e1539960457899-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7785-e1539960457899-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7785-e1539960457899-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7785-e1539960457899-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7785-e1539960457899-260x347.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/img_7785-e1539960457899-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Mass with the monks. My Spanish is basically nonexistent, and even with a Spanish language missal, it was difficult to make the correct responses. In fact, I was really only on sure footing during the Paternoster \u2013 because it was in Latin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we walked about 17 km from Filloval to Samos. Last night&#8217;s sleep was a little rough thanks to a German pilgrim with a mighty snore! So we started late and sauntered through a haunting forest landscape dotted with tiny rural villages and tottering ruins. It began raining about noon, and by the time we arrived at Samos in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pilgrim-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8193,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions\/8193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}