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Or a wedding (probably rare on a Wednesday)!Is there a festival/ fair/ special market going on? Usually they set off flares to "announce" or "remind" people in the morning that there's a festival set up in town.
Buen Camino!
My wife and I were on the Le Puy route this summer and heard loud bangs too. It turns out it was orchard owners firing "sonic charges" up into the clouds to try to keep hail from damaging their crops. We were afraid we were coming upon hunters who wouldn't know we were there! I don't know what crops would still be around this time of year outside Astorga.Does anyone know what the loud bangs are that I have been hearing this morning between Astorga and Rabanal? They remind me of avalanch canons but I don’t see much snow - unless the sound is traveling across from the Pyrenees??
Does anyone know what the loud bangs are that I have been hearing this morning between Astorga and Rabanal? They remind me of avalanch canons but I don’t see much snow - unless the sound is traveling across from the Pyrenees??
Is there a festival/ fair/ special market going on? Usually they set off flares to "announce" or "remind" people in the morning that there's a festival set up in town.
Buen Camino!
Trish,Does anyone know what the loud bangs are that I have been hearing this morning between Astorga and Rabanal? They remind me of avalanch canons but I don’t see much snow - unless the sound is traveling across from the Pyrenees??
Wrong thread, Peter.Mabey a fighter jet going by the sound barrier.
This does remind me of the loud bangs we heard in Leon when we were there in June 2014. It turned out that there was an old fellow in the square, with a wooden frame on his shoulders, and some *very large* bottle rocket like fireworks. It may have sounded like cannon--or RPG fire--but it was this one old fellow with his rockets. (Though DH almost threw me into the nearest hedge at first!) It was also within about 50 feet of a large crowd of folks doing Zumba in the park, right in front of the post office. Maybe you heard something similar.Does anyone know what the loud bangs are that I have been hearing this morning between Astorga and Rabanal? They remind me of avalanch canons but I don’t see much snow - unless the sound is traveling across from the Pyrenees??
I didn't want to press "Like" but hunting is my bet.Often this is from pig hunting farmers out with their guns, protecting their corn.
This does remind me of the loud bangs we heard in Leon when we were there in June 2014. It turned out that there was an old fellow in the square, with a wooden frame on his shoulders, and some *very large* bottle rocket like fireworks.
This fellow perhaps?
Merry Christmas!
Does anyone know what the loud bangs are that I have been hearing this morning between Astorga and Rabanal? They remind me of avalanch canons but I don’t see much snow - unless the sound is traveling across from the Pyrenees??
I remember passing a military base somewhere and heard loud bangs.Does anyone know what the loud bangs are that I have been hearing this morning between Astorga and Rabanal? They remind me of avalanch canons but I don’t see much snow - unless the sound is traveling across from the Pyrenees??
I walked Camino Frances in May - June 2017 and we heard these very loud bangs on several occasions. I was really on edge, ducking and diving and almost jumping out of my skin. I enquired about same and got some conflicting stories....however we felt we got the accurate answer from a very reliable source and it was..... Each village/town/area has a patron saint and when it is that "saints day" they celebrate and party with fireworks etc (I don't believe it is farmers protecting their crops from birds, pigs etc) I felt much more at ease with this explanationDoes anyone know what the loud bangs are that I have been hearing this morning between Astorga and Rabanal? They remind me of avalanch canons but I don’t see much snow - unless the sound is traveling across from the Pyrenees??
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