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- Francés, Norte, Salvador, Primitivo, Portuguese
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Can you please share where this is?3 years ago, I fell in love with this pretty town and the cemetery with the most beautiful views
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Sure, Trecile, it is Luarca, Asturias, Camino del norte, noodle dish with octopus and mussels to dream of too! A place to stay for a few days.Can you please share where this is?
I'm sorry I'm a bit late.we were loaded down with as many grapes as we could carry, which we shared with our fellow pilgrims at Casa da Fernanda. I considered it a nice birthday present from the local Portuguese.
I bet that musician has seen a few pilgrims.
Here's the thread to post pictures, musings, etc. for any dates in October from any year, and for any Camino route.
When you respond, please mention the date, route you were on and where you walked (or rested) that day. Thanks!
Interesting; I met Kate Elliott in Orisson September 13 last year. Interesting woman. Her book is on my must-read list. I just ordered a copy of yours. thanks. Just what I need at the moment.October 6th, 2013 qnd 2016.
2013. I am home. I am up early. Nothing to do, nowhere to go. No café con leche, no tortilla. No sun in the sky. Just dull grey autumn skies. I need a jumper, its cold. But the contractors arrive to install a new bathroom we had planned months ago so the boredom is lifted. But at least, I can scan in my compostela
2016. From Lavacolla to Santiago. Once again, I start before my friends but we agree to meet at Monte do Gozo. I have to wait about 30 minutes but at last we are all together. I thought they may want to see the Papal monument and the pilgrim monument further in. The ladies do but Albert wants to walk on. He is a strange wee man. A bit of a contraire. The kind of guy who will say black if I say white but he is strangely likeable. So off we went, 4 abreast. Marie is a fantastic singer and she gives us a rendition of Ultreia et Susia. She sings the verse, we join in with the chorus. Its a bit like the Wizard of Oz except the road is not yellow and the song is different but we have a spring in our steps and we link arms and walk. Now on the outskirts we stop for a Kodak moment and even stop passing pilgrims to get them to take a group photo.
Albert's contraryness kicks in again and rather than follow my suggestion, he wants to find his lodgings first before experiencing one of the greatest moments a pilgrim can have. However, he gets lost and as we are following him, we are lost too. Time to take over the map reading from him and soon we are back on track for La Salle. With a bit of urging, I get them out and on the way to the cathedral. Lynda by the way parted with us when Albert decided to take to the back streets, she had prebooked into San Martín. I turned into the square to find the others were not following. Albert wanted his compostela and he wanted it now. After we got them, Marie decided to go back to La Salle for a nap. I am not a napper and especially now. I did not walk all this way to go to bed. I headed for the cafe at the top of the steps in Quintana for a drink and a bit of people watching and to monitor the queue for the Holy Door. Just then I felt a tap on my shoulder and a lady asked if I was Terry McHugh, author of Walk With The Sun Till Ur Shadow Disappears. She recognised me from my picture on the back cover. Funny thing was I recognised her as Katharine Elliot from her photo on her book, A Camino Of The Soul. I can highly recommend her book.
The queue for the Holy Door has dropped off so it is time to jump in. What an amazing door this is. Reliefs on one side show the execution of Santiago and on the other, they show him preaching by the Ebro i believe. Behind him is Our Lady standing on a pillar calling him back to Jerusalem. The Pillar which is said to be still in Salamanca or Zaragoza, I cant remember, is reputed to be the one Jesus was tied to when they scourged him. Hence her title Nuestra Señora del Pilar and the use of Pilar as a name for girls. Eventually the others joined us and we met up with Lynda for dinner. She was going home next day so we would not see her again. We walked her back to San Martín and enquired about any vacancies, they had three from next day and available through to Wednesday. That suits us all as Albert goes home Sunday, me on Tuesday and Marie on Wednesday. We will move our bags in the morning.
It has been a full day, got our compostelas, got to evening Mass and botafumeiro and got our booking into San Martín and I got to go through the Holy Door. Time for bed
Thankyou, Kate has a second book about her walk in Patagonia. You should try that too, both her books are greatInteresting; I met Kate Elliott in Orisson September 13 last year. Interesting woman. Her book is on my must-read list. I just ordered a copy of yours. thanks. Just what I need at the moment.
Busy woman... I will definitely check it out. I am just putting the finishing touches to a book I spent the winter writing. Wish me luck with it. If I can find a publisher, I will donate proceeds to Camino organizations. They will be needing it. Although I assume it is pennies on the book. At least, we have fun writing...Thankyou, Kate has a second book about her walk in Patagonia. You should try that too, both her books are great
Writing is all the fun, marketing is a pain in the you know where. At least for me it is. You can always self publish through Kindle publishing. I used Amazon's now defunct Createspace which has been replaced with the Kindle one. Meand you get both print and ebook in one process. Either way, very good luck and dont keep the title to yourself. I love reading about the camino. When I first went, books, videos and pictures were few and far between. That was in 2013 and all I could find was Hape Kerkeling's book. Another good read. Amazing how the number of pilgrims books etc have snowballed since 'The Way'. 2013, springtime and September, I could have counted the number of pilgrims in the dozens in spring and hundreds in September. Then we all saw the movie and started writing books and the pilgrims are in the thousands. Anyway, look forward to your bookBusy woman... I will definitely check it out. I am just putting the finishing touches to a book I spent the winter writing. Wish me luck with it. If I can find a publisher, I will donate proceeds to Camino organizations. They will be needing it. Although I assume it is pennies on the book. At least, we have fun writing...
thanks for the encouragement. I am not keen on self-publishing. I did that before with a book of short storie but I had a venue to sell my book and was fundraising with it so I sold many copies. Title: Pilgrims, Hosts and Ghosts of the Camino. Send me a four-leaf clover please. btw I put in the order for your book through my local bookseller so now, since you published it through Createspace, maybe I will have to order online. I will see what he replies. Cheers.Writing is all the fun, marketing is a pain in the you know where. At least for me it is. You can always self publish through Kindle publishing. I used Amazon's now defunct Createspace which has been replaced with the Kindle one. Meand you get both print and ebook in one process. Either way, very good luck and dont keep the title to yourself. I love reading about the camino. When I first went, books, videos and pictures were few and far between. That was in 2013 and all I could find was Hape Kerkeling's book. Another good read. Amazing how the number of pilgrims books etc have snowballed since 'The Way'. 2013, springtime and September, I could have counted the number of pilgrims in the dozens in spring and hundreds in September. Then we all saw the movie and started writing books and the pilgrims are in the thousands. Anyway, look forward to your book
Here's the thread to post pictures, musings, etc. for any dates in October from any year, and for any Camino route.
When you respond, please mention the date, route you were on and where you walked (or rested) that day. Thanks!
10/10/2018 Camino FrancesOn this day, October 10, 2018 near Atapuerca on the Camino Francés. View attachment 84731
I always carry about 10 metres of nylon paracord with me when I walk the Camino for just that type of application, expedient clothesline. Can also be used to make repairs to a pack, lash something to the exterior of a pack and even be cut to length for replacement shoe/boot laces. Ten metres of it weighs very, very little and rolls up small.10/12/2012
On the CF...Walked from Ages to Burgos. A bit of rain early and foggy until I climbed out of Atapuerca. I lost the track somewhere on the descent and soon was walking with pounds of clingy mud on each foot. The main service of the soul-less walk into Burgos on endless pavement (did not know about the river route then!) was to pound off all the remnants so I entered A Divina Pastora as #1 for the day with reasonably clean boots.
Laundry drying was a bit problematic so I set up this rig on my bunk. Soon, every bunk was so festooned.
10/12/2017
On the CF...Tardajos to Hontanas, grateful for my first steps onto the Meseta which some people avoid but which many of us adore after having experienced its magic.
My family enquired as to a problem with my camera (dirty lens? improper settings?...) from the few pictures of the day. Nope! These conditions persisted just up to Hermanillos before wet moved in. In addition to late grain and timely sugar beet harvests, some of the larger tracts were being "chisel plowed", I assume to break up hard pan layers.
I was rather surprised about the "gentrification" of Hontanas since my prior visit. Initially dismayed, I found my response ungrateful and got onto helping some pilgs with foot problems. Albergue Juan de Yepes was a delight though I had wanted a reprise at St. Brigida.
Excellent, both of them, though I give "JdY" the edge for a first-class group meal. My "patients" decided to also sign up for the experience and so we had a table of 10 as I remember. Italian, German, Dutch, and English spoken - with enough multi-linguals in the group to keep cross-conversation flowing easily.
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Yep, Hontanas is nice though it took me awhile (actually, a couple beersI always carry about 10 metres of nylon paracord with me when I walk the Camino for just that type of application, expedient clothesline. Can also be used to make repairs to a pack, lash something to the exterior of a pack and even be cut to length for replacement shoe/boot laces. Ten metres of it weighs very, very little and rolls up small.
I really like Hontanas. Such a lovely little town. One of my favorite on the Frances.
On the Camino Catalan in a number of confusing places there is a yellow X painted somewhere on the way NOT to take.We turned left base on an arrow (see arrow circled in photo) that really sort of felt funny
A bit confusing? You think? Quite the understatement. lolOctober 12, 2015 on the Via de la Plata
After leaving early from Ourense, we deviated from the path indicated in the tracks that I had loaded into Maps.me because we saw clear and credible arrows and other pilgrims turning. We continued up a long and step hill and were happy to hit a plateau. We continued about a kilometre on “Camino Real de Santiago”, so far so good. We turned left base on an arrow (see arrow circled in photo) that really sort of felt funny, but we still weren’t on the same track as I had in Maps.me so I couldn’t confirm it. After walking more than a kilometre, a local person driving by told us we were way off course, and gave us a lift in the direction he was going. After retracing our steps, our little misadventure cost us 3 to 4 kilometres.
During a break at Casa Cesar, we had some interesting homemade food and drink. Cesar said he understood how the arrow we saw might be a bit confusing. We tried to encourage him to get somebody to change it. That evening during dinner at O Refugio in Cotelas, we met some German pilgrims who made the same ill-fated turn.
The first time I walked through the Convent ruins at San Anton it was daybreak - so magical! The second and third times after the sun was fully up felt so ordinary.Stuck with reporting in Spanish time because of weather impact on personal schedule...
10/14/2012: Hontanas to Boadilla del Camino
“Coffee, croissant, then rain gear on (as it was pouring) and headed into the darkness at ~ 8:00. Rain stopped but a cold, blistering wind started straight into the peregrino/a(s)’ faces - - stayed that way for the rest of the day. It was the type of wind that varied 15-40 mph – had the capacity to change your direction of travel if you weren’t careful. Shifted direction 45 deg, at random, so you could never get relief.
Dawn was brief – a hi-intensity light slit in the East. After that, an overhang of gunmetal gray crepe hung low in billows over an endless expanse of brown dotted punctuated with spots of green, both wild and cultivated.
No more aromatic wild fennel by the road. Fewer rose hips. Somewhat better waymarking in an admittedly simpler navigational environment. A few alfalfa fields, sunflowers being harvested, most fields stubble or fallow.
The day’s travel went on simply; a cup of coffee in a dot on the map (Itero de la Vega), a handful of mixed snacks and then moved on
Finally decided after nearly 30 km to dive into Boadillo del Camino and therein found a quirky little albergue that had a bed. Wonderful hospitality....”
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10/14/2017: Boadilla - Carrion de los Condes
“Currently resting and writing in Villarmentero at El Amanacer as I foresee no
time but for last minute edits at my destination later. This is a funky albergue
with tipi lodgings, free-range donkeys, scolding French Geese, and a flock of
begging Muscovy ducks. There are also two dogs and they do not like the heat either.
They move, at a glacial pace, and only when annoyed by the geese.
Enya’s ‘Marble Halls’ floats to us over the shaded breeze, a zephyr with a force barely
above the sigh of a slowly opened beer. Sadly, there is 13 km to go until Carrion de Los Condes where we aspire to a pilg’s bed in the Augustinian convent.
Cravings for Chinese cuisine have kicked in. And so, folks, on display here is a typical Camino challenge. Not big, no drama involved. The monkey mind just wants what it wants and will NOT stop chattering. One just has to leave it to exhaust itself. And, it will…sometime.”
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I understand how you can feel that way as two of three passages I have aimed arrival for the low light of dawn. However, on a visit in broad daylight, my Camigo asked me to sit in the shade with him against one of the walls so that we could "read' the carvings and design elements for a half-hour or so. The wonder of the works descended upon us and we were transported back several hundred years.The first time I walked through the Convent ruins at San Anton it was daybreak - so magical! The second and third times after the sun was fully up felt so ordinary.
Same Marias, different outfits (years)..@Latecomer, I'd never seen your two "lady friends" on my four times visiting in Santiago. I thought these two gals were the only ones. Possibly there are even others around the city.
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