Sounds of the Camino

[David Tallan]

I was watching a Camino video the other day (preparing to update my video list resource) and there was a scene in a bar with the clattering of cafe con leche cups and the sound really took me back to the Camino.

What sounds really take you back to the Camino? I'll start us off with a few:
- the clatter of cafe con leche cups
- a symphony of snoring
- cowbells carried in the wind

 

[Robo]

Crunch, Crunch, Crunch........

Sound part way down the page.
The Sound of Camino Contemplation

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[Deleted member 43985]

A few come to mind...
- the whooshing of windmill blades brings me back to Alto del Perdon
- clicking of trekking poles
- the opening of a sleeping bag zipper, even more if it is multiple zippers
- the sounds of bedsprings (keep a clean mind!) as people shift in their bunkbeds

 

[lynn]

I remember the roosters---not just at dawn, but all day. lol

 

[Laurie Sanantone]

Bagpipes welcoming us into the Plaza
The crash of glass bottles being put into the “vidria” (glass) trash container outside the albergue in Deba — one bottle at a time, at 2:00 in the morning!

 

[VNwalking]

In addition to what @Robo said:
Skylarks.
And the clatter of stork beaks.

 

[Roland49]

What sounds really take you back to the Camino? I'll start us off with a few:

That's funny: the absence of sound in the Meseta (as long as you are not surrounded by other pilgrims).
Especially on the early mornings while sunrise, the birds did not start calling, the wind is chill and calm.

A vacation for my ears. Very comforting.

BC
Roland

 

[Levi]

Cuckoos...I walked my first camino in spring and heard the lovely call of cuckoos so often.
Also the gorgeous call of Cetti's Warbler. It took me a long time to identify what little bird was responsible for that loud, melodic warble.
And as @VNwalking says, the clatter of stork beaks. And 'crunch, crunch' of my boots...

 

[VNwalking]

Also the gorgeous call of Cetti's Warbler.

Oh! Wonderful. Now I now what that is. Gracias, Levi

Searching for that led me to this lovely blog:

Bird song: Cetti’s Warbler

This non-descript bird is small and difficult to see, but its pretty name commemorates the Italian zoologist Francesco Cetti. Their song is used to signal their presence, a sort of bird ‘I’m here’,…

notesonaspanishvalley.com

 

[malingerer]

Oh! Wonderful. Now I now what that is. Gracias, Levi

Searching for that led me to this lovely blog:

Bird song: Cetti’s Warbler

This non-descript bird is small and difficult to see, but its pretty name commemorates the Italian zoologist Francesco Cetti. Their song is used to signal their presence, a sort of bird ‘I’m here’,…

notesonaspanishvalley.com

Amazing what turns up on random searches! lovely stuff! Thanks!

samarkand.

 

[FRM]

The symphony of a noise that isn’t snoring.......

frm

 

[Turga]

"Buen Camino!" in all kinds of voices.
The strange, low humming from street lamps when walking the empty streets out of villages in the mornings.

 

[CaminoGuy]

I was watching a Camino video the other day (preparing to update my video list resource) and there was a scene in a bar with the clattering of cafe con leche cups and the sound really took me back to the Camino.

What sounds really take you back to the Camino? I'll start us off with a few:
- the clatter of cafe con leche cups
- a symphony of snoring
- cowbells carried in the wind

I will never forget the first time I heard a cuckoo of in the distance from the top of a hill outside of Puente La Reina on the Camino Frances. Before that the only cuckoo sounds I’d ever heard were from clocks or movies. I’m looking forward to hearing them in person once more when my wife and I walk the Frances again in Autumn, 2021 or Spring, 2022, COVID-permitting!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I will never forget the first time I heard a cuckoo of in the distance

On the Camino Frances was the very first time I had ever heard the sound of a cuckoo bird and heard them periodically in the way. I was surprised how it sounded exactly like a cuckoo clock my mom had gotten from Germany!
I also loved the clatter of the stork beaks, and the cow bells in the distance.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

On the Camino Frances was the very first time I had ever heard the sound of a cuckoo bird and heard them periodically in the way. I was surprised how it sounded exactly like a cuckoo clock my mom had gotten from Germany!

The first time Peg ever heard the cuckoo, climbing the hill to San Esteban in Zabaldika, she found herself counting the calls to find out the time.

 

[La Barre]

Bees in the flowering bushes as you walk by.

 

[Liana]

I would have to say the sound of church bells ringing, welcoming me into the next village
to let me know the God was with me on every step!

 

[mlhhome]

i fondly remember the different languages of the Camino and the bells of Zubiri’s San Esteban that chimed or rang every 15 minutes.

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

- bleating of sheep.
- someone walking near me with a steel tip walking pole.
- sitting by a stream, listening to the water flow by.
- the wind.

 

[Theatregal]

I posted this earlier today in the "One Day at a Time, One Photo at a Time" thread - @Rick of Rick and Peg asked me to post it here too!

I have a short movie of this scene in Viana do Castelo, Portugal that captures a moment I love. Wandering down this lane at mid afternoon when the streets are empty and quiet but for the sounds of laundry flapping in the breeze and through open windows, family life in the houses - children playing, laughter, dishes clattering with meals being prepared, conversation, music.

 

[David Tallan]

I was reminded of this thread by hearing the sound of a rooster crowing, which took my right back to the Camino and the pre-dawn walks as we set out on a new day.

 

[Former member 91017]

I love the sound of the busy little bars, and I'm with @Robo about the crunch-crunch of our feet on the gravel paths, but I paused to tape the sound of an Iberian wolf howling in the very early morning in/around Mos on my CP in the later fall of 2019, and I listen to that chunk of tape over and over because it's so stirring. I can hear the sound of may feet instinctively picking up the pace even as I am trying to linger over the sound coming from the other side of the valley.
@David Tallan -- would you give us a link to the camino video with a bar scene? I'd love to hear that sound...

 

[David Tallan]

I love the sound of the busy little bars, and I'm with @Robo about the crunch-crunch of our feet on the gravel paths, but I paused to tape the sound of an Iberian wolf howling in the very early morning in/around Mos on my CP in the later fall of 2019, and I listen to that chunk of tape over and over because it's so stirring. I can hear the sound of may feet instinctively picking up the pace even as I am trying to linger over the sound coming from the other side of the valley.
@David Tallan -- would you give us a link to the camino video with a bar scene? I'd love to hear that sound...

I honestly can't remember which one it was that prompted the original post. Heck, I can't even remember which one it was with the rooster that prompted the follow up (though I know it was from a series of vlogs by a Swedish pilgrim of his Camino Portugues).

But almost all of the videos I collected in my post in the Camino Videos forum (and in the resource I posted) have bar scenes. Stopping at the bar is such an integral part of everyone's Camino.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Stopping at the bar is such an integral part of everyone's Camino.

This is so true. I am not a big drinker and have always stereotyped the word "bar" as a drinking establishment, opening at noon until the wee hours, and a "cafe" for coffee and quick snack. On the camino a bar represents everything we eat or drink all day or night from breakfast onward, including our often needed bathroom breaks...thank goodness for the bars!