Who didn’t???

[kaixo]

I’m virtually walking the camino frances on the walking4fun.com site and stopped after day 2 exactly at “the sign”. Did you take a foto?

Bala said:
I certainly did!

Who didn't??? said @kirkie!

 

[kaixo]

June, 7, 2012. Just looking at this makes me smile. I was so excited by the journey ahead. I had been planning my camino for so many years. I was living my dream. Everyday would be new...terrain, towns, food, scenery, people, new friends, freedom! Please post your foto and share your thoughts.

 

[Caligal]

June, 7, 2012. Just looking at this makes me smile. I was so excited by the journey ahead. I had been planning my camino for so many years. I was living my dream. Everyday would be new...terrain, towns, food, scenery, people, new friends, freedom! Please post your foto and share your thoughts.
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I’ve started both my Caminos in Pamplona, your photo Inspires me to get mine taken at “the sign”. 2022!

 

[Juspassinthru]

Buen Camino @kaixo

May 20, 2017

 

[Roland49]

Me too.
Since Lockdown I hiked over 120km near my hometown / hometown of the parents-in-law (Thuringia, that is).



How concerned I look, I didn't know what to expect.
In Roncesvalles I did not know, that this path leading me to SdC, will bring joy, laughter and fellow pilgrims to talk and walk to me.

 

[Saint Mike II]

I have it, standing at the front of La Posada. Here it is:

 

[kaixo]

@Caligal Where do you plan to start in 2022? Just a little further East and you’ll see “the sign”!

@Juspassinthrough You look so content, like you have already walked that distance, ta da!

@Roland49 Are you walking one of the trails on the walking4fun.com site? If you were logging your steps on the CF you‘d be nearing Logroña. Check it out, it’s fun.

 

[kaixo]

Hi @Saint Mike II, for some reason I can’t see your entire foto when I tap on the thumbnail. I just see the top third.
Any thoughts on how you were feeling that day?

 

[VNwalking]

Me.

 

[Bala]

Right here .

 

[Anne&Pat]

We didn't!!

 

[Rich1]

Guilty x3

 

[Pelegrin]

Ez nuen egin

 

[Camino Chrissy]

My son and daughter-in-law...she was ecstatic!

 

[VNwalking]

My son and daughter-in-law...she was ecstatic!

This is such a great photo!
(I bet they didn't look so spiffy after a week or so, though....)

 

[Camino Chrissy]

This is such a great photo!
(I bet they didn't look so spiffy after a week or so, though....)

I have no idea what you mean?...

 

[Sue127]

June, 7, 2012. Just looking at this makes me smile. I was so excited by the journey ahead. I had been planning my camino for so many years. I was living my dream. Everyday would be new...terrain, towns, food, scenery, people, new friends, freedom! Please post your foto and share your thoughts.
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I’ve passed by on my virtual Camino, so looking forward to the real walk.

 

[Aurigny]

Until now, I never noticed the blue snail on the lower right, which seems to be a recent addition.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Until now, I never noticed the blue snail on the lower right, which seems to be a recent addition.

My photo with the snail was April 2017.

 

[naplesdon]

I thought you might be referring the iconic sign one passes several hours later headed into Zubiri.

 

[Saint Mike II]

Hi @Saint Mike II, for some reason I can’t see your entire foto when I tap on the thumbnail. I just see the top third.
Any thoughts on how you were feeling that day?

Hola - what you see is all there is. If I recall correctly it was starting to rain and I took this snap and then hurried back inside to wait for the taxi to take me to Haizea Albergue at Espinal. Roncesvalles was either full or there was a 90 min wait to get a bed. I was not prepared to wait.

 

[lt56ny]

If I had a nickel for every time a pilgrim took a photo of that sign I could hire one of those fancy schmancy tour companies to carry me to Santiago!

 

[kaixo]

Until now, I never noticed the blue snail on the lower right, which seems to be a recent addition.

Thanks for pointing out that little snail. My foto from 2012 is snail-less!

 

[GailGwyn]

I’m virtually walking the camino frances on the walking4fun.com site and stopped after day 2 exactly at “the sign”. Did you take a foto?

Who didn't??? said @kirkie!

Here's mine

 

[Glamgrrl]

So many fun pictures all along the Camino. This sign one is iconic.

 

[Juspassinthru]

The exact same sign, in the same place and each shot is so uniquely different even in their similarity.

 

[Sparrow in Texas]

For those walking the Aragones, The Pilgrin at the Pass photo, the number is meters elevation, higher than the elevation of the Napoleon route,

 

[Juspassinthru]

Great pic and thanks. My next Camino will begin on the Aragones. Tips?

 

[naplesdon]

Then of course there is this sign near Le Puy

 

[Saint Mike II]

Hola all, regarding the "snail" on the Santiago sign. I have gone back to my May 2017 photo and whilst there is something in the bottom right hand corner I cannot enlarge is further to confirm or otherwise identify our little friend. Thanks for pointing it out,. Cheers

 

[nycwalking]

 

[Bala]

Hola all, regarding the "snail" on the Santiago sign. I have gone back to my May 2017 photo and whilst there is something in the bottom right hand corner I cannot enlarge is further to confirm or otherwise identify our little friend. Thanks for pointing it out,. Cheers

Mine was taken October 2015. No snail.

 

[BPG2017]

I didn't know it was iconic.... I took my "starting selfie" a bit further back. But there it is.
I can't resist adding my "final selfie" as well...

 

[Harland2019]

2019 No snail, no me!

 

[DannyFox]

Of course! (I’m in orange.)

 

[Camino Chrissy]

2019 No snail, no me!View attachment 77320

Possibly the snail was just a plastic sticker and someone peeled it off.

 

[Harland2019]

Better that than those people who paint over the signs with their name - idiots!

 

[Bert45]

I think that many people don't realise that that is a traffic sign, i.e. it tells motorists how many kilometres it is to Santiago de Compostela by car. It is not the same as the distance you will walk on the Camino Francés. There is not a lot of difference, but it's not the same. It is impossible to say how far it is by the Camino to Santiago from Roncesvalles because there are so many alternativos or complementarios on the way. I suppose you could say the same for the journey by road, but presumably 790 km is by the shortest route.

 

[gerip]

OK, fell for it.