Picture Fun Quest!

[SYates]

I think I know where it is, but as I had my turn recently, I just sit back for a while ;-) Happy questing, SY

 

[jdpiguet]

Estella or Villatuerta?

 

[mspath]

Estella or Villatuerta?

Both can't be right; choose one!

 

[VNwalking]

I go for Villatuerta--is it Casa Magica?
(A wild guess as I've never been inside--and if it IS, I'm happy to cede the answer to @jdpiguet, as I'm signing off now...)

 

[mspath]

Yes Casa Magica in Villatuerta is the place!

 

[jdpiguet]

Thank you @Viranani... I was not any more able to precise the exact place, I was there in 2007!
It's on a galician camino, but not the frances:

 

[VNwalking]

Guete morge, @jdpiguet...bitte!
So...guessing somewhere on the way to Fisterra/Muxia, but never having been past Santiago I wouldn't know.

 

[jdpiguet]

OK, I give up
The ships are giving a hint: it's close to the sea.
And the albergue has already been mentioned/discussed on the forum.
It is in the middle of the town.
More in one hour if nobody is coming closer

 

[jdpiguet]

Sorry to be late, boss was insisting on getting me working
Did I not have more important things to do ?
So, yes, it is in Muxía , at the Bella-Muxía albergue .
Who likes to post the next picture ?

 

[SYates]

Sorry to be late, boss was insisting on getting me working
Did I not have more important things to do ?
...

Evil boss! SY

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Probably too easy. I won't even name the camino.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Probably too easy. I won't even name the camino.
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OMG look at all those people! that's more than I saw the entire time I was on the Camino That Shall Not Be Named!

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

I mean, what is that, like ten people!?!?!?!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I mean, what is that, like ten people!?!?!?!

Plus 13. On the larger original I counted 23 but with difficulty.
Am I going to have to give a hint?

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Plus 13. On the larger original I counted 23 but with difficulty.
Am I going to have to give a hint?

not for me...if it's a part I walked, I won't recognize it without snow, and with so many people in the picture...::shudder::
going back to the people-less pictures on the Primitivo Quest

 

[VNwalking]

Between Hospital de Orbigo and Astorga, in the wooded area before David's snack stand?

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Between Hospital de Orbigo and Astorga, in the wooded area before David's snack stand?

oh, excellent guess...of course my misanthropic picture is a bit different, but I'll bet you are correct...

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Between Hospital de Orbigo and Astorga, in the wooded area before David's snack stand?

No. We missed that section. Note the steepness. I'll be back here in the morning. My morning.

 

[AJ]

Descent from Alto de Perdon?

 

[VNwalking]

Past Atapuerca? Wild guess that I think is probably wrong. It's steep, but I don't remember it being that wooded...ditto places in the meseta.
Other places are wooded but not that steep...my memory of Alto de Perdon is that it's way rockier.
(Taking into account the vegetation, I don't think it's in the Pyrenees or Galicia)

 

[AJ]

.my memory of Alto de Perdon is that it's way rockier.

That is the problem I have with my guess.

 

[petro]

On the way to San Juan de Ortega?

 

[AJ]

On the way to San Juan de Ortega?

I was thinking this: if we are just past the civil war monument, there is a creek at the bottom of the hill before a steep climb after the small bridge.

 

[VNwalking]

No pine trees, though...
I just remember this about that part of the world:
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[petro]

My picture taken in 2011 of the same spot - must be on the way to San Juan de Ortega.

 

[VNwalking]

That's it! I don't remember the hill, just the generally bitter weather and my very sore foot that day.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Petro has it right and AJ followed with the specifics. Go Petro.

 

[petro]

Where is this?

 

[SYates]

Walking out of Grañón? SY

 

[VNwalking]

Looks like the far side of Granon.
(Edit--Ha ha great minds work alike! Piped at the post by @SYates!)

 

[petro]

Well done SY and Viranani! Go ahead any of you two.

 

[VNwalking]

I have a pic from more or less the same place (I think) but boy does it look different! (The corner of the house is just at the left edge of the frame.)

 

[SYates]

I let Viranani go first as I am not at home ;-) SY

 

[VNwalking]

Thanks, SY...I owe you one.
A little late for Halloween, but where is this?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

http://discoverthecamino.com/wp-content/uploads/Skulls-Castrojeriz-640x427.jpg
From the blog containing the picture: One of my favourites is on the exterior facade of the Iglesia de Santo Domingo in Castrojeriz. It comprises two stone skulls that remind us of the past and of eternity.

 

[VNwalking]

Right, Rick. Over to you!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I had to find that one with a search. One of these skulls is an avatar for a forum member and a search on the forum didn't bring him up but a did come across a post mentioning skull and Navarette. While Navarette was wrong I found a blog mentioning Navarette and the picture and text I posted.

Anyway, not terribly difficult for some here who have great memories but name this place.

 

[VNwalking]

San Juan de Ortega

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

San Juan de Ortega

Yes. Back to you @VNwalking .

 

[VNwalking]

Back to storks.
Where is this nest?

I had to find that one with a search.
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Search your memory, Rick!

 

[VNwalking]

A hint before I turn off my computer for the night. It's on the Camino--this was a pic taken out of the Albergue window.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

A hint before I turn off my computer for the night. It's on the Camino--this was a pic taken out of the Albergue window.

Puente de Reina?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Obanos
https://lyndalozner.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/dscf3566-1024x768.jpg
https://lyndalozner.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/pics-part-3-including-dales-accident/

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Search your memory, Rick!

My memory doesn't work as good as the other parts of my brain. Besides, isn't this a quest?

Since @Viranani is asleep here is a pic to keep things moving.

 

[C clearly]

Back to storks.
Where is this nest?
View attachment 30234

That one is ridiculously hard! Good luck to everyone!

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

I think it looks like this one just before Puente de Reina...it was the first one I saw on the camino...I have no idea where @Rick of Rick and Peg's picture is ...
but since it looks like a drawing of a pilgrim I"m going to say Astorga

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I think it looks like this one just before Puente de Reina...it was the first one I saw on the camino...I have no idea where @Rick of Rick and Peg's picture is ...

It looks like you were right with Puente de Reina @Smallest_Sparrow. That neighbors Obanos. Text I've read said it was in Obanos but it seems to be just outside Obanos and inside Puente de Reina.
http://mapio.net/pic/p-15506915/
Move your cursor over pictures to see the location.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

It looks like you were right with Puente de Reina @Smallest_Sparrow. That neighbors Obanos. Text I've read said it was in Obanos but it seems to be just outside Obanos and inside Puente de Reina.
http://mapio.net/pic/p-15506915/
Move your cursor over pictures to see the location.

well, I guess we will have to wait to see which it is in @Viranani's notes...in my pictures it is after the pilgrim statue but before my pictures of the churches in puente de Reina...I'm fine with losing to you...sort of...I don't have many Frances cards to play in this game anyway...

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Hint 1: Not drawn on an underpass.
Hint 2: It is in a church.
Hint 3: But not one you would expect.

 

[VNwalking]

Smallest Sparrow has it--go!
(I have been elsewhere...sorry...and way over in Asia, so out of sync with everyone else's time zone!
It's the view right out the back window of the Albergue in PlR...

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Smallest Sparrow has it--go!
(I have been elsewhere...sorry...and way over in Asia, so out of sync with everyone else's time zone!
It's the view right out the back window of the Albergue in PlR...

since we are still playing a place holder by @Rick of Rick and Peg, I'll bow out and leave it to that very curious photo of his...

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Hint 1: Not drawn on an underpass.
Hint 2: It is in a church.
Hint 3: But not one you would expect.

I'm loving that it is not on an underpass....
I nominate this as the current Quest photo....

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Hint 4: It is big.
Hint 5: If you did the "entire" CF I'm sure you would have passed right by this.
Hint 6: I don't think @Smallest_Sparrow passed right by this. #sosad

 

[VNwalking]

And I have no clue, Rick.
Wildly casting about for an unlikely guess...Virgen del Camino?
I have no memory of it there but it IS unlikely.

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Hint 4: It is big.
Hint 5: If you did the "entire" CF I'm sure you would have passed right by this.
Hint 6: I don't think @Smallest_Sparrow passed right by this. #sosad

So all you Frances fans this means it was either after Irache and before Leon, or after Ponferrada and before Melide
#bearsandwolvesrock

 

[VNwalking]

Well so much for my guess.
So @Rick of Rick and Peg, can you please come back and give us another clue?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Let's not just guess. Focus your memory or get online evidence. The church is a cathedral. The snark is a boojum.

 

[VNwalking]

It's impossible to remember what one never saw...
And online digging may work for some people, but it's just not my thing.
So I'll just guess again.
Burgos, perhaps in the cloister?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Burgos, perhaps in the cloister?

Burgos Cathedral. But not in the cloister. It is at the paid tourist entrance. I was so astonished to see this in a cathedral filled with much higher art that I not only took it's picture but I transferred it to my tablet (and thus ended up having it saved.)

As I remember the location it was on the wall between areas 2 and 6 in the plan below, facing area 2. It took up most of the wall.


Your turn again @Viranani

 

[VNwalking]

Amazing.
OK...This shouldn't be tooooo hard.
The Maria Dolorosa in a church, during Semana Santa--soon to go out for the procession.
What church, what town?

 

[VNwalking]

Did I kill this thread with too hard a pic??
Hints for whomever's still playing:

1. The church is said to be founded by a saint during their pilgrimage to Santiago.
   
2. The ceiling, the frescos...
   
3. @Smallest_Sparrow has been through this town...

 

[SYates]

Hm,

1. Could indicate a church dedicated to Saint Francis?

SY

 

[VNwalking]

Maybe, maybe....

 

[VNwalking]

And the town, @SYates??
I guarantee you know this one.

 

[SYates]

Unless it is a side chapel of the church I would say - Convento de San Francisco in Santiago? But I remember the main church very different and haven't been to the side chapels there ... Confused, SY

 

[VNwalking]

It IS a side chapel of a Church of San Francisco.
Hee hee. But not in Santiago.
Half marks, @SYates. Try again!

 

[SYates]

OH!!! Santo Domingo de la Calzada? SY

 

[VNwalking]

OH!!! Santo Domingo de la Calzada? SY

Not even warm..........

 

[SYates]

I am lost ... Anybody else has an idea? SY

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I am lost ... Anybody else has an idea? SY

I'm trying (but I shouldn't be.)

 

[VNwalking]

OK a hint: this is also in the same town:

 

[SYates]

That looks like the Bierzo area ...

 

[VNwalking]

Now you're getting warm, very warm.....

 

[VNwalking]

Do these ring any bells??

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Converto de San Francisco in Villafranca del Bierzo?

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Do these ring any bells??

Something weird happened. I don't see your pictures and the links cause "not found" errors and your post never even showed up the recent posts lists.

 

[VNwalking]

Tadaaaaaaaaaa, Rick takes it.
Now try--the pics should show. I deleted and then reloaded them.
It's a very special church, I think my favorite of the whole Frances. There's a special feel in there--very Franciscan. The interior pic is from another chapel, not the main nave, which is much simpler.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Tadaaaaaaaaaa, Rick takes it.
Now try--the pics should show.

Yes, they show now. Still weird is that your last post didn't show in the recent activity list either. Besides the point anyway.

It was a lovely spot that I did visit but I just couldn't place it. @SYates really should get the credit for this.

I normally have a window up with 7 camino related tabs active. I'm going to blow them all away now because I really have to do some other things with my time and this game is just too addictive for my own good right now. I may reattach in the evenings and mornings. So ... please @SYates or someone else post the next picture.

BTW, @Viranani thanks for starting the "I need a laugh" thread.

 

[VNwalking]

Yes, Rick, but you called the town. Graciously done.
I need to go to bed now, so @SYates...go for it....
(And you're very welcome, Rick. It was self-preservation. I did need a laugh. Still do. So I hope it goes for a while longer...people are posting some very funny stories...)

 

[SYates]

Ok, turn your time machine on ;-) Which old parish house/rectory is being renovated into an albergue in this photo? SY

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Did I kill this thread with too hard a pic??
Hints for whomever's still playing:

1. The church is said to be founded by a saint during their pilgrimage to Santiago.
   
2. The ceiling, the frescos...
   
3. @Smallest_Sparrow has been through this town...

hey, how did I become a mile marker?
actually, this is part of the Frances I skipped (I was beginning to think I must have been sleepwalking)

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

Ok, turn your time machine on ;-) Which old parish house/rectory is being renovated into an albergue in this photo? SY

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rats, I think I read someone's blog about that...but can't remember other than I think it was on the Frances

 

[SYates]

Frances is correct!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

@Smallest_Sparrow has gone over to be an angel, a warrior angel.

 

[VNwalking]

hey, how did I become a mile marker?

Sorry, SS. Well now that you're angelic we'll have to cease and desist!
As for SY's pic, I can only offer wild guesses.
Foncebadon?

 

[Smallest_Sparrow]

@Smallest_Sparrow has gone over to be an angel, a warrior angel.

just until saturday...St. Michael in honor of Veterans Day

 

[SYates]

No, not Foncebadon, far closer too the beginning of the CF. Hint: That photo was taken 15+ years ago, the albergue is now well established and known. Buen Camino, SY

 

[AJ]

I know, but I cheated.

 

[VNwalking]

@AJ...so?
(Actually I don't think there are any rules here about that, right?)
Hmmmm...Larrasoana?

 

[AJ]

@AJ...so?
(Actually I don't think there are any rules here about that, right?)

This raises the question: should there be rules? Personally I don't care one way or the other. For me "cheating" in this game is using the web to find an answer when you don't have a clue, as was the case for me in this one. However, using the web to check whether your guess is correct, or to refine it is, for me, a different thing.

SY started the game, so I think it should be her call.

 

[SYates]

Actually I don't mind either way. Does it really matter how the solution is found? It is just a bit of a fun game and there are no prices, so 'cheating' doesn't really matter. Just keep the game going @AJ ! SY

 

[AJ]

Albergue San Francisco de Asis, Tosantos.

 

[SYates]

Correct! Now one of your pictures please ;-) SY

PS The pictures shows some of the hardy volunteers that renovated the old rectory/parish house of Tosantos in winter 2001/2002 - it was cold!!!

 

[AJ]

What is behind me?

 

[AJ]

And the location too. Shouldn't be tooooo hard.

 

[SYates]

I would say on the very beginning of the CF, looking back to the Pyrenees? No idea about the location ... SY

 

[VNwalking]

Hmmmm...I don't think it's on the Frances...But maybe on the Norte looking towards the Picos?

 

[AJ]

I would say on the very beginning of the CF, looking back to the Pyrenees? No idea about the location ... SY

Cold

 

[AJ]

Hmmmm...I don't think it's on the Frances...But maybe on the Norte looking towards the Picos?

Warmer

Harder than I expected.

Bed time, so no more from me for a while.

The location is quite specific which is why I ask what is behind me. And it isn't a cow.

 

[VNwalking]

I don't have a clue and from the silence, it looks like I'm not alone. I have an excuse--I've never been on that side of the Picos.
@Smallest_Sparrow??