On the Camino: One Day at a Time, One Photo at a Time (Part 2)

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 30th, May, 2018 On the mountain route from Soto de Luina to Cadavedo, with many beautiful views.

 

[Kanga]

I'm torn between posting something that reminds me of people - I seem to have quite a few like this:



or just something beautiful, like this:

 

[VNwalking]

This one is from.....

...Zabaldika (right??)!

I'm torn between posting something that reminds me of people - I seem to have quite of few like this
[...]or just something beautiful, like this

Both! You could alternate one day to the next...

Editing to add...wow, what a place to rest! Lounging in the lavender - I can almost smell it. All in pink. It wins the thread today, at least in the human interest category...

 

[Madidi]

15th October 2017:

Camino Frances. In the Igrexa de Santa María A Real do Cebreiro. A selection of the large range of gospels reflecting the varied languages of the pilgrims. This small group included one in braille and nearby I saw one in Cherokee. An amazing little church.

 

[Theatregal]

At rest in Santiago

 

[alansykes]

As Catedrais on the Ruta do Mar between Ribadeo and Foz.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

We were talking about The Way?
I'm glad I missed it.

I'm hurt. You requested favorite pictures. I sent in one still and video. Oh, wait; I should have waited a day. Never mind.

 

[Botaivica]

Just rediscovered a treasure trove of photos. This one is from.....
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CF, Zabaldica, Iglesia de Sant Esteban

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Poppies again; one of Peg's favorite flowers. At home we only got blooms for a week. In Spain it was poppies for about two months.



Flickr has a picture of what looks like the same rock pile.

 

[SabsP]

Iglesia San Martin de Tours on the Vasco Interior. More fortress than church on the outside.

 

[VNwalking]

More fortress than church on the outside.

It doesn't look like much on the outside, but if I had known what the inside looks like I'd have definitely found a way to visit!

(Photo from the website linked to above - do click on that image to see it full-size. It's amazing.)

 

[VNwalking]

From not far away from San Martin, where Sabine's last photo was taken - on the other side of Salvatierra. Looking back at the ridge I'd just crossed from Zegama, with the village of Zalduondo in the forground.

 

[Former member 49149]

I have to be honest and say I forget, but I think this is one of our photos. In 2006, we had a system of taking photos and getting them saved onto disc... and then I kind of lost the originals, but a rediscovered thumb drive showed up. If this belongs to someone else, which is possible, sorry! The reason it was taken? It was just a voice. someone began it. The sound swelled with the addition of more and more. It was in and around Najera. That was a joy, Najera!

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 31st, May, 2018 Cadavedo to Luarca. Probably Playa de Cueva o de la Arena just past Canero.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Camino Del Norte, beautiful beach walk right before entering the town of Noja.

 

[Madidi]

Flickr has a picture of what looks like the same rock pile.

5th September 2012: My photo at the same spot



Google Maps

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

5th September 2012: My photo at the same spot

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Google Maps

Practically identical to the Flickr photo!

I used the Google Maps link to walk back to the rest area.

 

[Theatregal]

And mine was taken just a couple of weeks after yours, @Madidi Sept. 21, 2012. Wonder if that little tree has continued to thrive?

 

[Madidi]

And mine was taken just a couple of weeks after yours, @Madidi Sept. 21, 2012. Wonder if that little tree has continued to thrive?

On the latest Google maps, there are still a few of those small trees alongside the piles of stones: I think the maps are fairly recent, so they must still be there

 

[alansykes]

The Peñón of Zaframagón on the Vía Serrana between Ronda and Olvera.

 

[SabsP]

Arco de Mazarelos in Santiago de Compostela. No spectacular picture but I have always liked the quietness of those early mornings in this city.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Papamoscas, the fly eating, bell ringing automaton above a clock in Burgos Cathedral.



Nine minute video in Spanish about Papamoscas:

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 1st, June, 2018 Luarca to Navia. San Salvador Church in Pinera, over half way on the days walk.

 

[Former member 49149]

A poster that took my fancy. It was photo number 151.

 

[Theatregal]

After the communal dinner at the albergue in Miño on the Ingles, the hospitalera Estelle spread photo cards across the table and asked each of us to choose a card that reflected something for us that day and then to share what drew us to the particular card. It was a wonderful enjoyable evening there. This was my card.

 

[alansykes]

The little 13th century chapel of San Bartolomé de Ucero stands at the entrance to the Cañón del río Lobos near the Camino Castellano-Aragonés in Soria province. It faces north east, apparently because Santiago dropped his sword here when his horse jumped across the canyon, and they built the church in the direction the sword was facing. It was probably built by the Templars, and the exterior has many of their symbols - a circle of five hearts forming a pentagram, bees, vine leaves etc. It is allegedly exactly half way between Finisterra and the Cap de Creus in Catalonia. Whatever the Templar associations, it's a lovely little chapel on the cusp between late Romanesque and early Gothic, in an utterly spectacular canyon.

 

[David Tallan]

In A Angueira de Suso, Spain, on the Camino Portugues. I loved this sort of dry stone construction (with, of course, the yellow arrow).

 

[Madidi]

05 September 2012:

Not much further on from the 'stone piles' of the earlier photos, Hornillios del Camino appears in the valley below. You can almost feel the heat

 

[Botaivica]

Fisterra, lighthouse, waiting for the sunset

 

[LifeatNo22]

Here's a vista from my neck of the woods. Trying to increase my cardio fitness by regularly walking up Mount Maunganui.

 

[SabsP]

Here's a vista from my neck of the woods. Trying to increase my cardio fitness by regularly walking up Mount Maunganui.View attachment 81359View attachment 81360

Wonderful. If you would want to, we have an interesting thread about local walks. Full of inspiration.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/where-did-you-walk-locally-in-2020.65841/

 

[SabsP]

Detail of albergue in Ribadiso da Baixo https://www.wisepilgrim.com/camino-...badiso-da-baixo/albergue-de-ribadiso-da-baixo.
It says municipal though I always thought it was from the Xunta.
From my first Camino in 2011.

 

[LifeatNo22]

Wonderful. If you would want to, we have an interesting thread about local walks. Full of inspiration.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/where-did-you-walk-locally-in-2020.65841/

Whoops, I obviously put it on the wrong link!

 

[Former member 49149]

First day walking the Camino Frances, 23rd June, 2006. Set off from Roncesvalles just after 7am. This photo was taken after the breakfast of a just made tortilla with fresh bread and cafe con leche. Was it Espinal? It got very warm. Stopped for the day in Larrasoaña. Chauffeur/hospitalero/father of my walking companion was waiting to take us back to Pamplona, and return us to the same spot the following morning. That happened for three nights, and then from Puente la Reina we went on without going back to Pamplona in the afternoons.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

 

[Anne&Pat]

On the 21st, August, 2014, 6 years ago today, we arrived in Bayonne to take the train/bus to St Jean Pied de Port, to start walking our first Camino Frances! We are going to relive that camino over the coming days one photo at a time, if you don't mind!? We should have been walking it again this year May/July. Hopefully next year.

 

[VNwalking]

On the second day of the Invierno, I intentionally had most of the day to poke around in thee Roman mines of Las Medulas; in the afternoon I visited the lakes about a km away from the village that formed in areas where the rocks had been washed to separate the ore. Drainage patterns had been changed by the accumulation of tailings, and lakes formed in the depressions. Now they are well known for their flora and fauna.
Here is Laguna Largo in the middle distance, with mines of Las Medulas in the background.

if you don't mind!?

That's exactly the kind of thing this thread is for. I look forward to seeing your photos, @Anne&Pat !

 

[Theatregal]

Two photos today again - but part of the story Just after Espinosa del Camino are the 9th century ruins of the hermitage of the Monasterio de San Felix de Oca, with four letters "no wc" added (sadly? necessary?) to one of it's stones centuries later.

 

[alansykes]

Autumn comes to the chesnuts of As Médulas, on the Invierno.

 

[Madidi]

16th October 2015:

Santiago de Compostella: Medieval cross on the roof of the cathedral.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Detail of albergue in Ribadiso da Baixo https://www.wisepilgrim.com/camino-...badiso-da-baixo/albergue-de-ribadiso-da-baixo.
It says municipal though I always thought it was from the Xunta.
From my first Camino in 2011.

The French love shutters in shades of blue...on the Le Puy camino.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 22nd, August, 2014 Day 1 St Jean to Orrison, mid-morning. I (Anne) was wondering what I had let myself in for! Amazing views all the way to Orrison but I was very glad to get there!

 

[SabsP]

Alto de San Roque . Camino Frances 2011. Rather misty and mysterious.

 

[VNwalking]

Autumn comes to the chesnuts of As Médulas, on the Invierno.

I wondered what that would look like. Thanks, Alan...glorious!

Following the misty and mysterious theme...
Morning on the Frances a little after Ribadiso.
I will have to string these along over a few days as I had a hard time choosing and can only post one!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

The walls of the Albergue de Jesus in Mazarife are decorated with pilgrim graffiti. Some are better than others.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

VN, your newest pic almost looks like an ocean view with islands in the background.

 

[VNwalking]

VN, your newest pic almost looks like an ocean view with islands in the background.

So it does, if you squint at it, or stay with the thumbnail. I never looked at it that way but now can't unsee the illusion.

 

[Former member 49149]

On the counter in a bar in O Cebreiro. We had the most wonderfull soft cheese and honey there before walking on, as the albergue was not yet open.

 

[peregrina2000]

The inside of Santa Cristina de Lena, 9th century pre-romanesque, on the Salvador between Campomanes and Pola de Lena. It’s hard to decide which is the most spectacular — the inside, the outside, or the surrounding views (great place for a picnic!).

 

[peregrina2000]

On the counter in a bar in O Cebreiro. We had the most wonderfull soft cheese and honey there before walking on, as the albergue was not yet open.
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Kirkie, could that possibly be Venta Celta?

 

[Former member 49149]

Kirkie, could that possibly be Venta Celta?

I can’t say, but I do know it was on the left, down a little bit from the church, and before heading out over on the right, past the albergue. If this is the same bar, then yes, because I found this and cropped it, from the Venta Celta website. Oh, my goodness. The cheese and honey set us up for the next stage of the day’s walk!

 

[peregrina2000]

but I do know it was on the left, down a little bit from the church, and before heading out over on the right, past the albergue.

Yes, I do believe it is the Venta Celta. I stayed here on my very first camino in 2000 — they have some private rooms in addition to the restaurant. At that time the place was owned and run by a young woman from Bilbao, who had fallen in love with the camino and had opened this place. At that time, as others might remember, there was only one set meal for dinner. Ensalada mixta, caldo gallego, and tortilla española. Dessert was — queso do Cebreiro con miel

When i was back there in 2015 or 16, just passing through for a coffee, the owner was still there, no longer enamored of the camino but she had expanded her business to include a small grocery across the street in an old hórreo. You had to take some steps down from the road to get to it, I don’t think it was very visible from the street in fact. The restaurant had changed dramatically — now offering a full menu of all sorts of things to meet the increasing demands of the pilgrim traffic. I know that souring on camino businesses happens frequently as the realities set in, but I kind of wish I hadn’t gone back, so that I could remember the whole enterprise in its romantic bubble.

 

[Theatregal]

On the Route Napoleón

 

[Former member 49149]

Yes, I do believe it is the Venta Celta. I stayed here on my very first camino in 2000 — they have some private rooms in addition to the restaurant. At that time the place was owned and run by a young woman from Bilbao, who had fallen in love with the camino and had opened this place. At that time, as others might remember, there was only one set meal for dinner. Ensalada mixta, caldo gallego, and tortilla española. Dessert was — queso do Cebreiro con miel

When i was back there in 2015 or 16, just passing through for a coffee, the owner was still there, no longer enamored of the camino but she had expanded her business to include a small grocery across the street in an old hórreo. You had to take some steps down from the road to get to it, I don’t think it was very visible from the street in fact. The restaurant had changed dramatically — now offering a full menu of all sorts of things to meet the increasing demands of the pilgrim traffic. I know that souring on camino businesses happens frequently as the realities set in, but I kind of wish I hadn’t gone back, so that I could remember the whole enterprise in its romantic bubble.

I understand, and I am sorry that your return experience was disappointing. I wish I had known the young lady was from Bilbao. That is where I learned my Spanish! I was lucky to be able to attend a second chance learning school, with other native people living in the barrio, and so did not have to go through learning how to order a meal! It really was immersion learning. Anyway, if my photo brought back your initial experience, I am happy.

 

[alansykes]

San Pedro de Caracena on the Lana, Soria province. The twisted column and capitals are by the same sculptor who worked on the cloister at Santo Domingo de Silos (three days further on).

 

[Madidi]

13 Sept 2012:

Camino Frances. One of the iconic pallozas at O'Cebreiro. A similar photo of this particular one on the old 'Google Earth' website was my introduction to the Camino de Santiago. I asked the guy who posted the photo about the structure and he mentioned the camino, I asked what the 'camino' was, he explained it..........and here I am, seven caminos of my own later

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

León's wall.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

What an exciting thrill for me to see these sheep being herded through the village of Viskarret on my first Camino in April 2015. They ran right past Corazon Puro, the guest house where we had spent our first night.

 

[SabsP]

Beauitful quote at La Feria del Libro in Burgos in 2019 when we finished our Via de Bayona/ Vasco Interior.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 23rd, August, 2014 Day 2 We have reached Navarre, Spain! We had beautiful weather for this walk to Roncesvalles. After we arrived at Orrison, the day before, we had thunder, lightning and a massive downpour, luckily we stayed the night in Orrison and met many people who became camino friends and a few have since visited us in Australia!

 

[VNwalking]

Picnic, anyone? (Another kind of foggy and mysterious altogether...on the Frances between Villafranca Montes de Oca and San Juan de Ortega, March 2015)

 

[Former member 49149]

Salvador

 

[Madidi]

9th May 2014:

Camino Ingles. Strange cross atop a pig (I think) near the shoreside at Mino. I am sure there is a story to it

 

[Theatregal]

9th May 2014:

Camino Ingles. Strange cross atop a pig (I think) near the shoreside at Mino. I am sure there is a story to it

An image from one of my camino photos that I researched lately! It's a monument dedicated to Fernán Pérez de Andrade, a cross on the back of a wild boar or wild pig, symbol of Andrade's house.

PONTE DO PORCO, MIÑO

GALICIA

galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com

 

[alansykes]

The cruz del niño muerto (or of San Juan) on the Vía de la Plata north of Mérida. In memory of an unfortunate shepherd boy chomped by a wolf one midsummer's day. If you ignore the arrow and take the next right you can detour to visit the lovely lonely visigothic church of Santa Lucía del Trampal.

 

[Theatregal]

The estuary of the Lambre River at the Ponte do Porco, Miño

 

[TrvlDad1]

I wondered what that would look like. Thanks, Alan...glorious!

Following the misty and mysterious theme...
Morning on the Frances a little after Ribadiso.
I will have to string these along over a few days as I had a hard time choosing and can only post one!

Agree ,there is something mystical and spiritual about a misty morning and a stormy evening (this near O Cabo)

 

[Madidi]

It's a monument dedicated to Fernán Pérez de Andrade, a cross on the back of a wild boar or wild pig, symbol of Andrade's house.

I just knew someone would have the backstory Lovely article: many thanks Theatregal

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 24th, August, 2014 Roncesvalles to Zubiri. The main street through Zubiri. Our watering hole for the evening on the right!

 

[SabsP]

Cathedral Rooftop tour in Santiago de Compostela. Different view.

 

[Madidi]

11th May 2015:

Camino Madrid. Heavily tapped black pine tree in the forests on the way to Coca. A huge enterprise when you consider every tree as far as the eye can see is being tapped. One of the side effects is that the forest paths are churned to a very soft sandy texture by the heavy tractor traffic removing the barrels of resin, making walking conditions difficult underfoot

 

[Theatregal]

Arco de Mazarelos - Santiago

 

[Botaivica]

On the Portuguese, passage between two fences ☹

 

[alansykes]

Looking down on Villalonga (and lunch), Valencia province, from the Camino del Alba.

 

[C clearly]

Harvesting apples for cider on the Vasco del Interior. When enjoying the local cider in Astigarraga that evening, my daughter described it as "Tastes like the real thing - made from apples that were scraped off the ground with a bulldozer, dumped into the back of a truck, and fermented. But in a good way!" We laughed joyfully and drank up!

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 25th, August, 2014 Late morning between Zubiri and Pamplona, we spotted this tractor, the local version of a Fordson Major. At that time we had a small farm in the Mallee and had a 1950's Fordson Major Tractor!

 

[SabsP]

Observing daily life in Caldas de Reis , Camino Portugues. Early workers and their breakfast. Always a humble reminder that when walking a Camino we are indeed privileged being able to do just that .

 

[Former member 49149]

How are these trees now? Photo taken 2006

 

[VNwalking]

How are these trees now? Photo taken 2006

Anyone have more recent photos?

Looking back towards the mountains and the snow we had walked through the day before. Somewhere between Burguete and Zubiri, early March 2015.

 

[Madidi]

11 May 2015:

Camino Madrid. Heading into another beautiful forest on the way to Coca. You can see the soft sandy tracks created by the vehicles used to transport the resin tapped from the pines.

 

[Madidi]

How are these trees now? Photo taken 2006
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Is this the place kirkie? The current Google maps street view Outside El Burgo Ranero

 

[Theatregal]

When you could climb the front steps of the Cathedral

 

[Former member 49149]

Is this the place kirkie? The current Google maps street view Outside El Burgo Ranero

I confess to not remembering, but I will ask my friend. She might remember. I remember that the road was very quiet, if there was one vehicle while we walked along that was it. The heading I put on the photo at the time was “18km straight on”. Your sleuth skills are highly polished!

 

[Botaivica]

Portugues, at the entrance to Grijo.

Flowers have always been good for my soul

 

[SabsP]

Detail of the cathedral in Tui. Camino Portugues.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 26th, August, 2014 Pamplona to Uterga. View from Alto del Perdon, looking to Uterga, Muruzabal, Obanos and Puente La Reina in the distance.

 

[VNwalking]

View from Alto del Perdon, looking to Uterga, Muruzabal, Obanos and Puente La Reina in the distance.

I love that moment of coming to the top of the alto, when a whole new landscape opens up, and the old one disappears for good.

I tend to stop and look back at times like that - and a lot, actually.
The view back of Sansol from the western edge of Torres del Rio on a gray day, admiring the almond trees in full bloom.

 

[Madidi]

02 September 2012;

Camino Frances. We stopped in Santo Domingo de la Calzada and were directed to an albergue in the Abadia Cisterciense by staff from the cathedral. The nun who booked us in was fearsome (well she scared me anyway) so we headed into the town for food and a beer. We came across Cerveceria Titanic on Calle San Roque: ironic, as I lived close to where it was built and also because I don't think you could find a more remotely unrelated location for a bar named after such an iconic ship. The 'canas' were good in any case and the albergue was first class too

 

[Theatregal]

A festival of traditional dance in front of Gaudi's Casa Botines in Leon.

 

[alansykes]

External carvings on the visigothic church of Santa María de Lara at Quintanilla de las Viñas on the Camino de Sant Olav, just south of Burgos.

 

[VNwalking]

Given the beauty of that small section, can you imagine what it must have looked like when it was not merely the remaining bit of something much bigger?

 

[Botaivica]

Church on mountain pass, a sign that you have conquered the Pyrenees

 

[Camino Chrissy]

April 2015- Just beyond Cirauqui this delightful "world map" tilled and planted into the dirt came into view.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 27th, August, 2014 Uterga to Cirauqui. Dining room in the cellar of Albergue Maralotx. Great albergue, fantastic atmosphere in the cellar.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

April 2015- Just beyond Cirauqui this delightful "world map" tilled and planted into the dirt came into view.

Not so delightful if you come from NZ

 

[TrvlDad1]

Not so delightful if you come from NZ ☹

I thought NZ was that big island to the left of North & South America.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Not so delightful if you come from NZ

Is it because you usually walk the camino in Spain's fall season?

 

[VNwalking]

Not so delightful if you come from NZ ☹

Haha, yeah - that was my thought at the time. Erased!

Today it is a favorite stork photo. He or she was skulking along the edge of the roof of the church in Boadilla, clearly hunting, peering carefully under the rooftiles for hiding prey while walking along, with a little difficulty - I caught a moment of loss of balance.

 

[Madidi]

16 September 2012:

Camino Frances. Ponte de Furelos on the approaches to Melide. A bit of a slog from here to the town but the promise of pulpo and alberino eased the pain

 

[Theatregal]

On the Sanabrés - Crossing the Rio Barbantiño over the Ponte Sobreira and through the flooded muddy street of it's abandoned hamlet.