Silverton
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2003- CF ( various), Portugués (various), Aragonés, Inglés, Sanabrés
It seems to be the time of year for 'miscellaneous' threads, so I'll add another--swans, NOT snakes!
My son, a swan addict with a mild intellectual disability, surprisingly suggested that he will walk a few days on the Camino Francés with me this coming spring. We'll fly to Bilbao, and walk from Pamplona to Logrono (and La Grajera)--places I'm confident I can show him mute swans (less fortunate black swans in Parque Taconera in Pamplona).
If this taste-of-the-Camino is a success (how could it not be, you ask!), can any forum members suggest other locations on one of the camino routes where I might aim in future? I'm guessing along the northern route in Cantábrica--Llanes or Ribadeo perhaps? In 2014 I was delighted to see park staff settling a pair of mute swans into a small pond in the Alameda in Santiago. They told me they were from the river in Padrón. Last spring the Alameda still had one mute swan, and a pair of black swans (donated by Aussie or Kiwi pilgrims??).
Any information would be happily received. Buen camino a todos, con o sin cisnes!
My son, a swan addict with a mild intellectual disability, surprisingly suggested that he will walk a few days on the Camino Francés with me this coming spring. We'll fly to Bilbao, and walk from Pamplona to Logrono (and La Grajera)--places I'm confident I can show him mute swans (less fortunate black swans in Parque Taconera in Pamplona).
If this taste-of-the-Camino is a success (how could it not be, you ask!), can any forum members suggest other locations on one of the camino routes where I might aim in future? I'm guessing along the northern route in Cantábrica--Llanes or Ribadeo perhaps? In 2014 I was delighted to see park staff settling a pair of mute swans into a small pond in the Alameda in Santiago. They told me they were from the river in Padrón. Last spring the Alameda still had one mute swan, and a pair of black swans (donated by Aussie or Kiwi pilgrims??).
Any information would be happily received. Buen camino a todos, con o sin cisnes!
