On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 10.0

[Anne&Pat]

Iglesia de Santa Maria, Los Arcos. Santiago Apostol. May, 2022.

 

[Rowena]

April 7, 2022
The rooftops of Hontanas

 

[Anne&Pat]

Torres del Rio, the beautiful Iglesia de Santo Sepulcro XIIthC linked to the Knights Templar and based on the octagonal church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The simple interior has a XIIIthC crucifix. It wasn’t open in 2014, so we were lucky this time.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Ayegui

January 25, 2008



West of Estella this personal ad hoc mix of camino symbols decorated a simple wall.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances
Ayegui

January 25, 2008

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West of Estella this personal ad hoc mix of camino symbols decorated a simple wall.

Our photo from the 16th May 2022! With a new plaque added.

 

[SabsP]

2011. Mansilla de la Mulas. Albergue municipal when wonderful hospi Laura was still caring for the pilgrims. She recently became the owner of a private place somewhere on another Caminoroute ( forgot which one ).

The quiet patio. I was lucky to share one of the smaller dorms with only two other pilgrims. Quiet and gracious chaps.
One of them, a pilgrim on bike whom I only met that day, and I still have regular contact.
For me yet an example that ' a Camino family ' with whom you walk for days is a strange concept to me.
Some meetings are short and limited but can have more impact on you as a person than feeling forced to stick with a group 'out of moral duty ' . Again , my personal idea of course.

 

[mspath]

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2011. Mansilla de la Mulas. Albergue municipal when wonderful hospi Laura was still caring for the pilgrims. She recently became the owner of a private place somewhere on another Caminoroute ( forgot which one ).

The quiet patio. I was lucky to share one of the smaller dorms with only two other pilgrims. Quiet and gracious chaps.
One of them, a pilgrim on bike whom I only met that day, and I still have regular contact.
For me yet an example that ' a Camino family ' with whom you walk for days is a strange concept to me.
Some meetings are short and limited but can have more impact on you as a person than feeling forced to stick with a group " 'out of moral duty ' . Again , my personal idea of course.

SabsP,
Thanks for sharing your recollection of a very special place, lady and spirit. This post details where Laura is now. Here is another fond recollection from 2014 of Laura in Mansilla. Last but not least see this for the impact elsewhere of chance encounters

 

[VNwalking]

I've been quiet here, needing to use my energy elsewhere.

2015. March. Camino Francés. After falling on my face the day before, and in the pouring rain, I cut my walk from Najera short in Cirueña, at Albergue Virgen de Guadalupe. After the respite, this was the view along the way heading to Santo Domingo the next morning. 🙃

 

[Rowena]

April 8, 2022
Looking back at Castrojeriz

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Torres del Rio

January 26, 2008



Beneath a winter sky Torres del Rio is encircled by the rio Linares and riverside vegetation.
On the extreme right amidst the rooftops rises the tower of the octagonal Romanesque church, Santo Sepulcro.
In the distant middle view soars the tower of the Iglesia San Andres.
Further west in the far distant middle view the camino path towards Viana crosses the gully, Mataburros/Mule Killer!

 

[Anne&Pat]

Leaving Viana via the medieval stone arch Portal de San Felices for a short walk to Logrono. May, 2022.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

April 8, 2022
Looking back at Castrojeriz

I'm always enthralled by pictures like this that tell a geological story. Notice that your vantage point on the Alto, the crest of the hill at Castrojeritz Castle, and the more distant horizon form a perfectly flat plane. It's the top of the Paramo Limestone which was deposited in a huge lake that used to be the lowest point of the Duero Basin, (what we now call the Meseta). Subsequent erosion has cut through it giving us the fertile valleys that we walk through from Hontanas and Hornillos.

 

[Yoyo]

I liked this little roadside stamp station in Gião, on the first stage out of Porto on the central route.
Just a little further on, a lovely young shopkeeper wouldn't charge me for a large bottle of ice cold water I wanted to buy. "You are a pilgrim, therefore it's free", she insisted.

 

[Rowena]

April 9, 2022
Towards Boadilla del Camino

 

[SabsP]

Siesta time in Leon. 2011.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Logroño
Iglesia de Santiago el Real

January 27, 2008



This bi-level door front depicts Saint James in two different guises associated with his hagiography.

On the lower level he is a gentle pilgrim wearing a hat and cape, holding a staff and shell. The upper level depiction is as Matamoros or Moor slayer riding a spirited white horse beneath which lie slain Moors. This depiction evolved after the 9th c. battle at Clavijo where the Spanish king while fighting Moors "saw" in the sky an apparition of Saint James on horseback. Thus, the victorious Spanish began the Reconquest of Spain.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Just before leaving our accommodation in Logrono at 5.55am, very quiet city centre. May, 2022.

 

[VNwalking]

One of the first images from my first camino, Leon to Santiago - awestruck by the bigness of it all. The path, the sky, the immensity of the endeavor (which would now seem like a walk in the park, but that was then, just a few kms in)...