What keepsakes did you find or acquire on your Camino?

ffp13

Addicted pilgrim

Time of past OR future Camino

Completed Caminos: 2009 SJPP, 2011 Roncessvalle , 2012 Pamploma, 2013 Roncessvalle, 2013 Porto, 2014 Burgos, 2014 Porto

Future: Roncessvalle

• Jan 2, 2013

• #1

On my second Camino I was entering the village of Villafranca and passed some recent roadwork/escavation in the residual dirt and gravel a flat stone beckoned me to pick it up, it turned out to be an old coin from the reign of Queen Isabella and Ferdinand dated from around 1470, it is a very special keepsake from that Camino.

 

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RENSHAW

Official Camino Vino taster

Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2003 CF Ronces to Santiago
Hospi San Anton 2016.

• Jan 2, 2013

• #2

Amazing!!

Cannot beat that .......... but on my first camino I started at Roncesvalles where the Hospitaleros had a table for unwanted items. I picked up a heavy duty interlocking knife , fork and spoon set - My treasure that I took all the way to Santiago with me.

 

Kiwi-family

{Rachael, the Mama of the family}

Time of past OR future Camino

walking every day for the rest of my life

• Jan 2, 2013

• #3

The realisation that I love to walk.

 

CaptBuddy

Active Member

Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Fall 2012, again Fall 2014.

• Jan 21, 2013

• #4

Incredible memories and an obsession to do it again.

 

sillydoll

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2002 CF: 2004 from Paris: 2006 VF: 2007 CF: 2009 Aragones, Ingles, Finisterre: 2011 X 2 on CF: 2013 'Caracoles': 2014 CF and Ingles 'Caracoles":2015 Logrono-Burgos (Hospitalero San Anton): 2016 La Douay to Aosta/San Gimignano to Rome:

• Jan 21, 2013

• #5

Every walk I do I collect a pebble at the start and another at the end. I place these on either side of a photograph, or souvenir tile of the route I've walked. I have about 10 of these small box frames on my bathroom wall!




On my first Camino, I brought home some soil from the Camino and a few dried poppy seeds. Each year a few poppies grow and each year I replant the seeds. Each year the plants and the seeds get smaller and smaller. Last year they were minute - the flowers no bigger than my thumb nail!



Everyone can have a couple of these!

The back of the 5c coin has the Santiago Cathedral on it. Great to keep as a medallion or just a keepsake.

 

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Tia Valeria

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Pt Norte/Pmtvo 2010
C. Inglés 2011
C. Primitivo '12
Norte-C. de la Reina '13
C. do Mar-C. Inglés '15

• Jan 21, 2013

• #6

In Santiago this year Terry bought me pair off jet stud-style earings. Talking to the owner of the azabacheria we learnt that they made the 800 year anniversary cross for the Cathedral, which makes my earings even more special.

 

nellpilgrim

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

SDC-Fisterra 08/Camino Frances SJPP to SDC 09/Nuremburg-SDC 11- ongoing

• Jan 22, 2013

• #7

I started out for my Camino Frances on Palm Sunday and received a slip of 'palm' (well actually a piece of Irish yew!) at mass just before I left. For some reason I ended up tying this to my pack with a bit of string. As I walked I picked up slips of various plants and added them to this little 'Camino Bouquet' . Even though some things did dry up and fall off a surprising amount didn't and the posey made it all the way home. Though dessicated and brown it's a lovely souvenir of that pilgrimage and one I treasure.
Whenever I'm on pilgrimage now I start with a little cutting from home and add to it as I walk along.