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One Day at a time, One Photo at a Time (Part 3)

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It is wonderful to see photos of things that I did not notice. We all cover the same ground but notice or remember different things!😊

Today I'm remembering two ladies in Tolosa whose smiles were not diminished by the wet day. The local people we met on the Vasco were so welcoming of pilgrims. It was a delight.
 

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The Camí de l'Ave Maria, where pilgrims to Montserrat leave a candle after visiting the Black Madonna, the moreneta. Still slightly in mourning for my covid-truncated camino of 2020, but "offer it up", as Sister Bridget used to say after some minor mishap when I was a child.
 

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Rocks rock! Here’s another.
I was most impressed by this specimen on display in what amounts to the geological museum of Cordoba, aka the Mezquita Cathedral.
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The 800 or so polished “marble” columns were apparently appropriated from Roman ruins all over the Iberian Peninsula. This one is definitely local. A spectacular example of the 15my old Guadalquivir olistostrome deposits, which were colossal slumps - on a scale of many cubic kilometres - of mud and rock fragments, caused by the tectonic forces unleashed by the closure of the African Plate and the Peninsula.
 
Between Padron and Santiago de Compostela on the Portugues in 2015.
A gorgeous Gothic cross in its simplicity. Edit : found the place. At Rua de Francos.

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Something different.
I went through Rochefort on my way back to Ireland from Santiago in 2018. And apparently, according to @JabbaPapa, it is on a a Camino Frances route recorded back in 1417: see thread “The Full Camino”.

This is the reconstructed frigate “Hermione”, beautiful.
If any of you are Patrick O’Brian fans, the real Hermione was captured by the real HMS Surprise in 1799, before Jack Aubrey took fictional command.
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The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
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Paul, can I borrow your company next time I'm in the Pais Vasco? I always want a rock whisperer there....
Aha! A kindred spirit.
Just for you, can I post a picture I took in the lounge of an Airbnb I stayed in last year?
This was the fireplace. I did a real doubletake, and couldn't help myself. "I've seen this before!" (Compare with the column photo above). Fortunately, the owner was a scientist, and his eyes didn't glaze over at my possibly overenthusiastic commentary on its origin.
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overenthusiastic commentary on its origin
Yeah. I know this dynamic well...
You're lucky to have found a receptive ear.
🤣

I also go a little bananas with biota...the vultures near Pancorbo on the Via de Bayona had me yammering on and on (each rock knob had an occupant, hanging out, and there was a kettle of them circling overhead). I thank my wonderful walking companion for her diplomacy and patience!
The rocks there were pretty special, too.
 

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Yeah. I know this dynamic well...
You're lucky to have found a receptive ear.
🤣

I also go a little bananas with biota...the vultures near Pancorbo on the Via de Bayona had me yammering on and on (each rock knob had an occupant, hanging out, and there was a kettle of them circling overhead). I thank my wonderful walking companion for her diplomacy and patience!
The rocks there were pretty special, too.


Your diplomacy and patience you mean!
Gosh I forgot about my flashy colours.... :cool:
 
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The joy of finding a place open for coffee during siesta in Monforte de Lemos.
Joy is the right word @Theatregal. They are the memorable punctuation marks of the entire camino for me, so often accompanied by the immense pleasure of conversation with chance-encountered kindred spirits. Especially so when you travel alone.
 
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I had planned to stay here in May 2020 and was looking forward to it.😕
Hi Chrissy, it was an interesting stay. We were fortunate to be there for a concert with three Galician choirs, which was very good. We also loved attending vespers with the monks.
Quite a large dormitory, with wooden bunks close together, above me was a young man, who hung his unwashed smelly socks all around his and therefore my bunk! Then Pat had an interesting to/fro conversation with a man about having the window open for fresh air!! Luckily Pat won and the window remained open!
Now we have stayed there, we won't need to again!;)
 
Hi Chrissy, it was an interesting stay. We were fortunate to be there for a concert with three Galician choirs, which was very good. We also loved attending vespers with the monks.
Quite a large dormitory, with wooden bunks close together, above me was a young man, who hung his unwashed smelly socks all around his and therefore my bunk! Then Pat had an interesting to/fro conversation with a man about having the window open for fresh air!! Luckily Pat won and the window remained open!
Now we have stayed there, we won't need to again!;)
Ha! It always amazes me all of the little details we can remember about so many of the places we stay. I've only stayed in a couple of monasteries and always found them very "interesting" experiences. Thanks for sharing your story.🤗
 
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Camino Frances- September, 2014 Murias de Rechivaldo, Albergue las Aguedas. A very comfortable albergue, with a peaceful courtyard within to relax. We had one of the private rooms, it was lovely.
I liked it too. It even has a bar!
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Camino Frances- September, 2014 Murias de Rechivaldo, Albergue las Aguedas. A very comfortable albergue, with a peaceful courtyard within to relax. We had one of the private rooms, it was lovely.
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I had quite a night there.

 
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I had quite a night there.

Thought this story was very familiar , then remembered it was in your book, which we have read and enjoyed on kindle!
 
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In honour of Remembrance Day - Poppies in Las Medulas.

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Unfortunately we have too many wars and causalities that we must memorialize. This is on the Camino Catalan between Berbegal and Pueyo de Fañanás. It lists the names of some locals who died in August 1936 in the Spanish Civil War.
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The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
A meeting near Logroño. The only snake I've ever come across in Spain. Are there any dangerous species in Spain?
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I am sure it wasn't a snake but something bit me on the side of my heel when I was walking around one of the towns in my jandals.

This is what it looked like a couple of days later in Sahagun. I put a compeed on it, then it burst as I walked along.

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I wondered if it could have been a spider, wasp or something similar.
 
I am sure it wasn't a snake but something bit me on the side of my heel when I was walking around one of the towns in my jandals.
Scorpion? There are two species in Spain ...

Here are some less fearsome critters, from the CF near los Arcos:
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Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-
Down bag (90/10 duvet) of 700 fills with 180 g (6.34 ounces) of filling. Mummy-shaped structure, ideal when you are looking for lightness with great heating performance.

€149,-
Down bag (90/10 duvet) of 700 fills with 180 g (6.34 ounces) of filling. Mummy-shaped structure, ideal when you are looking for lightness with great heating performance.

€149,-
I only have a couple of sunrise pictures. Peg is a late riser. This was taken on my solo SdC to Finisterra walk (Peg joined me there and we walked to Muxia together).
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I have a LOT of sunrise pictures.

On this journey, sunrises overtook sunsets as my favoured mode of solar viewing.
 
Colegiata at Roncesvalles, which I described at the time as a bunkbed Travelodge with the loudest toilets in the Western hemisphere.

What a relief it was to have arrived here, the first and the largest place of rest that I'd experience on the Camino.

And what a relief not to have ended up like Daniel Avery too.

 

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Pic taken at the cathedralmuseum in Santiago.

One place in the cathedral that has always been a favorite of mine is the Palacio de Gelmirez. Over the years they’ve changed the way in which it’s visited — it used to be its own attraction, but now you go through it on the way to the Portico de la Gloria. And I think a rooftop tour also takes you through it. It is one of the best examples of non-religious romanesque, and I absolutely love the many different carvings of daily life, celebrations, music making, etc.
 

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I too saw similar in Muxia and was curious. I was told they were hunting barnacles. It was low tide.
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Along the Português da Costa. A woman on the shore told me he was gathering barnacles and small octopus.

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I know you have read this article, @Camino Chrissy, but it is absolutely my favorite piece of “food travel” writing, if there is such a genre. A story about Galicia’s dangerous barnacle fishing industry and the sisters who had great success in the male-dominated industry.

It is really a great story.
 
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I know you have read this article, @Camino Chrissy, but it is absolutely my favorite piece of “food travel” writing, if there is such a genre. A story about Galicia’s dangerous barnacle fishing industry and the sisters who had great success in the male-dominated industry.

It is really a great story.
So happy you posted this! I remember reading it after my Português da Costa camino when I was researching all the photos I'd taken along the way of people gathering, way out at low tide on the rocks, precariously perched. It's a wonderful story!
 
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There's a documentary too? Would love to see it - can you send the name?


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Wow, I just stopped cooking dinner to watch it. ;) Definitely needs to be seen again. As someone who never did physical labor at all, my hat goes off to these women. And the “rederos”, the women who repair the nets — talk about unsung (and underpaid and undervalued) heroines. I had never seen this, Sabine, thank you so much!
 
Thank you @SabineP !! So wonderful to see this - it's a great companion piece to the written story. I live in a fishing village and have talked often with some of the older fisherman who still sit on the docks outside the net sheds, mending nets on nice days. I'm going to show them the footage of the amazing "rederos" in this film!
 
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Thank you very much Sabine for the link to this very interesting video.
 
Could have been a centipede. Apparently they are quite common.
When it happened, I felt a sharp pain in my heel and instinctively reached down, mid-stride, and brushed my heel with my hand. I remember feeling something like a splinter/sting sticking out of my heel and I must have brushed this out because by the time I looked down at my heel there was no splinter/sting and no creature, just a small red patch that later turned into a blister.
 
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