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Today on the Primitivo, as it crests one of the last significant hills before dropping down to Melide. It wasn't as cold as @Anne&Pat experienced, but was definitely chilly!
Camino Frances
Ibaneta chapel
photos taken October 17, 2012
Colorful glass panes provided an aesthetic pick-me-up when exhausted after climbing from Valcarlos I peered into this tiny window on the locked wayside chapel door.
Santiago de Compostela
Cathedral Archivo-Biblioteca
This illustration depicting Charlemagne and Roland fighting Moors is from Historia Caroli Magni et Rotholandi/History of Charlemagne and Roland, Book IV of the Codex Calixtinus
Twelve...
Cathedral rooftop tour, Santiago de Compostela. October 5, 2023.
I've been on this tour three times now and this vantage point always makes me feel like I'm "backstage".
18th April, 2024. Day 6, Quatre Chemins to Aubrac, Via Podiensis. Very cold days walking. We woke up to quite a lot of snow on the ground this morning. It was only 3o on the Pharmacy temperature sign at 13.00hrs In Nasbinals!
Snow and sleet...
Camino Frances
Roncesvalles monastery
photo taken October 17, 2012
Seen from the albergue courtyard at twilight the lights glowing within the monastery complex were both mysterious and welcoming.
19th, April, 2024. Aubrac to St Come d’Olt. Day 7, Via Podiensis. Much better day weather wise but a long difficult day with lots of descending and still a bit of ascending, hard on the arthritic knees!!
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