On the Camino: One day at a time, one photo at a time...

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Eunate

Yesterday's picture showed the north door. Here's the west entrance, seen from the inside of the church. Note here and later that the windows are paned with alabaster.

 

[David Tallan]

I thought for a change I would switch to the Camino Portugues. This photo is taken just after walking under the Ponte da Arrabida, walking on the river on the way out of Porto. There are no fancy filters added; it is just the way it looked through the lens. It was weird. A beautiful clear day with a blue sky and no fog - except for this one patch surrounding the bridge.



[Edit: I've added a thumbnail below to a photo that shows the approach to the bridge so you can see what I mean.]

 

[AlanSykes]

This sculpture is based on a work by Antoni Tàpies and is sited near where the delicious warm spring of Fontcalda gushes out of the rocks, between Tortosa and Gandesa on the Ruta del Ebro.

 

[Theatregal]

A beautiful fragment of a 16th century fresco discovered during the last restoration (2008) of the Igreja Matriz de Caminha.

 

[Tulle]

Over the years of 2007- 2009 I walked together with husband and friends the Via Podiensis from Le Puy in France. One night when we stayed in La Romieu there was a thunderstorm and lots of rain. The next day we had to cross a field full of mud that stuck to our shoes. They became awfully heavy and it took quite a long time to clean them. The red shoes are mine and I was really afraid that they were destroyed. But they weren’t, I have walked a lot in them since then.

 

[VNwalking]

OMG, Tulle.

This brings back memories, besides being very funny in its own right. It's the hiking sandals that do me in....

I've had more than one day like that, but the one that sticks in the mind was coming into Burgos, getting to the river alternative alongside the airport with mud just like that. @sabine and I had a similar experience Last year coming into Miranda de Ebro on the Via de Bayona.

My photo today is from a foggy March day outside of VIllafranca Montes de Oca, with the peregrinos in front of me disappearing into white. This was the day before the seriously sticky mud, and there were daunting ponds of mud to come even before that a little later this day...

 

[JohnLloyd]

A walk-in fountain, I think in Cacabelos? Very refreshing, as I recall.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 5th, June,2018 Walking between A Ponte de Arante to Lourenza. With great views of Galician hills and bridges.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Eunate

Though there is an apse at the east end of the church the main body of the building is octangular. However it is not perfectly so as can be seen in this picture of the ceiling/roof. Note the alabaster windows.

 

[SabsP]

Has anyone else seen this out of place elevator in the middle of nowhere ( just out of Hontanas )? This pic is from 2013.

 

[David Tallan]

Another on the CP, on the Senda Litoral just north of Porto on the coast, at Leça da Palmeira.

 

[Theatregal]

July 2014 - Walking past the shipbuilding company Navantia in Ferrol. As a very powerful symbol, the hundreds of workers who had lost their jobs hung their work clothing and clothing of their families on the fences surrounding the massive work yard.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

July 2014 - Walking past the shipbuilding company Navantia in Ferrol. As a very powerful symbol, the hundreds of workers who had lost their jobs hung their work clothing and clothing of their families on the fences surrounding the massive work yard.

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Sometimes it is really difficult picking out the appropriate like response. I gave a Thank you for posting this pic and story but it certainly is a sad story.

 

[NiniSum]

Ascending the dreaded climb out of Pontedeume on the Camino Inglés gave us a wonderful view of the town and the Cathedral. Well worth the climb!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Eunate

I'm posting this a few hours early as Peg and I will be out of internet range for a couple of days. This is a picture of one of the windows. It is not the same one above the door that I posted earlier nor is it the one in the apse, a picture of which is upcoming.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Muxia, 5th, October, 2014 View of town from Monte Corpino.

 

[Theatregal]

Sometimes it is really difficult picking out the appropriate like response. I gave a Thank you for posting this pic and story but it certainly is a sad story.

Yes, it was a sad, thoughtful start to the Camino Ingles. As I came across the photo today, I wondered if the families affected by sudden job loss then, are again experiencing the same situation due to the pandemic. Remembering certainly brought a keener understanding personally as my industry suddenly and completely shut down. There are blessings though and I'm gratefully counting them.

 

[JohnLloyd]

That rather well-photographed house in Bierzo country outside Villafranca.

 

[VNwalking]

Has anyone else seen this out of place elevator in the middle of nowhere ( just out of Hontanas )?

No, I never noticed it. I tend to fixate on the ruins after you go around the bend and start heading in the direction of San Anton. The rest of the exit from Hontanas, other than the swimming pool, is a blur.

Astorga, and the contrails of people headed west much faster than we were:

 

[Theatregal]

A wonderful visit and talk with this man in Santa Maria de Vilabade on the Primitivo. As we walked past a stone barn, he came out and asked if we would like to see his wood gallery. Every day he goes for a walk in the forest to find pieces of wood that he carves into sculptures, walking sticks, shelves, candlesticks... The barn was filled with his work. I liked the small, fanciful figures - they were 1 euro each. I chose 2 and as we were leaving, he put 3 more in my hands and wished us well on our journey. One of those strong special memories. I wish I had asked him his name.

 

[AlanSykes]

The Pico Sacro, landing lights for arrival in Santiago for pilgrims finishing the Sanabrés and/or Invierno. First burial place for the bones of Santiago, and lair of the evil Reina Lupa.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte-29th, April, 2018 In the evening in Zarautz with the locals and pilgrims promenading along the beach front. The restaurant where we had dinner that evening was also on the front behind where this photo was taken. While in the restaurant, we noticed the second photo below, taken on 04/03/2014!!!

 

[JohnLloyd]

Being quite a fan of Kate Tempest, I was delighted to see one of her lyrics (almost) on a Camino signpost on the way into Trabadelo.

 

[VNwalking]

On the penultimate day on the Invierno, before dropping down to Ponte Ulla you come around a corner to a commanding view. There's a castro on the hill on the right, the hugh-speed train viaduct, and then way off in the distance left of centre is the first sight of Pico Sacra. The end is near.

 

[Theatregal]

The bodegas of Moratinos.

 

[AlanSykes]

From the cliffs above San Andrés de Teixido (alleged resting place of Galicia's other apostolic bones) on the Ruta do Mar a day or so before Ferrol. Highest cliffs in mainland Europe, according to the tourism people. A plaque above San Andrés commemorates the death of Leslie Howard, shot down by the luftwaffe in 1943 a few miles off this coast.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 10th, May, 2018 Waiting for the mornings first ferry from El Puntal across to Santona at 9am. After a quick 5km walk from Laredo along the beach front.

 

[Rich1]

Municipal allege in Ages, CF but could be anywhere

 

[JohnLloyd]

That quiet sense of satisfaction from an ascent of O Cebreiro

 

[Tulle]

Hmm, how long has she been sitting here? I can’t remember seeing her. But the last time I left O Cebreiro was 2014...

 

[VNwalking]

Santo Domingo de Silos one fine afternoon.
This is a lovely place to walk through or from (On the Ebro, El Cid, or connecting to the San Olav), or to visit as a side trip from Burgos.

 

[SabsP]

Quaint. On the way to Pancorbo. 2019. Vasco Interior.

 

[Theatregal]

The Capela da Virxe Peregrina in Pontevedra.

 

[oursonpolaire]

The Cathedral in Mondoñedo features a possibly German pilgrim recuperating after a long day.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Eunate

Finally, the apse. I don't know if it is normally all lit up for visits but I got in just after a wedding.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 20th, May, 2018 This photo was taken in the Sidreria in Llanes, where we had dinner with Werner, one of our Camino friends from Germany. We stayed in the Albergue La Estacion. Our second accommodation on the Norte in a railway station! The first was in Deba. Both good Albergues.

 

[JohnLloyd]

I did spend one night in Hospital on the Camino.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Eunate

Before leaving Eunate let's take a closer look at its Madonna.

 

[Theatregal]

In the churchyard of Santa Maria la Mayor of Iria Flavia

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

In the churchyard of Santa Maria la Mayor of Iria Flavia

Caskets?

 

[SabsP]

Cloister of the Colegiata de Santa Maria del Sar in Santiago de Compostela.

 

[AlanSykes]

The lonely keep of Pinhel's castle on the Camino Torres, looking back over Spain from a day or so inside Portugal's border. The delicious light fruity white wine rewards the pilgrim who makes the final ascent from what seems a very long way down.

 

[Anne&Pat]

O'Cebreiro- 24th, September, 2014. Bust of Don Elias Valina Sampedro,(1929-1989), parish priest of Santa Maria La Real, who marked The Way. It was his idea to mark the route with the yellow arrow.

 

[JohnLloyd]

Time means something else on the Camino

 

[VNwalking]

Inside the Tunel San Adrian, Vasco Interior

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Eunate

I left the church heading for Puente de Reina via Óbanos but I looked back to see the little church in the middle of nowhere.

 

[David Tallan]

On the Camino Portugues, on the crossover between the Coastal at Vila do Conde and the Central at Arcos. In Touguinha, Portugal.

 

[peregrina2000]

Time to jump in and share. Picking just one a day is hard! Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Camino Castellano-Aragonés (from Zaragoza to Burgos), and getting to enjoy this particular cloister of the 12th century monastery of San Juan on the Duero River in Soria was one of the highlights.

 

[VNwalking]

this particular cloister of the 12th century monastery of San Juan on the Duero River in Soria was one of the highlights.

That's stunning.
Very different...an amazing photo to jump in with. That camino is definitely on my list.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Time to jump in and share. Picking just one a day is hard! Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Camino Castellano-Aragonés (from Zaragoza to Burgos), and getting to enjoy this particular cloister of the 12th century monastery of San Juan on the Duero River in Soria was one of the highlights.
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I agree with V. Leave it to you to find the romanesque Laurie. I'm no expert but I think I see Moorish influence there. I see that the columns and arches in the background have different styles.

 

[Theatregal]

Caskets?

Information at the church said a necropolis and 30 early medieval sarcophagi were found during a restoration.

 

[Theatregal]

After Atapuerca

 

[AlanSykes]

One of the capitals in the claustro de San Francisco in Ourense on the Camino Sanabrés. A centauride hunts a wolf (well, two wolves: one is partly hidden).

 

[SabsP]

Look who we find here. Shadow. Santiago de Compostela.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 10th, June, 2018 We walked from A Roxica to Sobrado dos Monxes and stayed at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Sobrado. We were lucky to be there for an evening concert with four local Galician choirs.

 

[CaminoDebrita]

A forum member I ran into on the CF in 2016 took this one of me. I met her as we walked in the rain, and then we'd run into each other as it goes! This was a brilliant sunrise, somewhere in the "middle." Nice to pop in and see all the amazing photos!

 

[VNwalking]

So lovely to see you, @CaminoDebrita - what a great pic.

Mine for today is somewhere on the Frances after Sarria. We love to hate that stretch, but wouldn't you go there now in a heartbeat?

 

[SabsP]

@CaminoDebrita : wonderful to see you again.

 

[JohnLloyd]

The left-hand route into Portomarín is a little tricky.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I should have included this link yesterday so you can see photos on Flickr taken near the Iglesia de Santa María de Eunate.

Here is my picture for today. It isn't a favorite but I picked it because it shows the church at the end of the Camino Aragonese; where it joins the Francés.



I wish I had taken a photo more like the one below (a portion of a Google Streetview). Taken from the Francés, it shows the Aragonese on the far side of the bollards.



See photos on Flickr taken near meeting of the caminos.

 

[peregrina2000]

I am so glad to have started checking into this thread, not least of all because I got to see @CaminoDebrita’s photo. Good to see you!

As I sit here in the flatlands yearning for mountains, I think of my first “mountain camino,” the Salvador. The exhilaration it brought sent me off to walk caminos like the Olvidado, Vasco, Vadiniense. But there is something unmatchable about the stage between Buiza and Poladura.

 

[Rich1]

I remember coming round the corner and seeing this for the first time...the beauty stopped me in my tracks and I said "Oh my God" out loud as I gazed in wonder...

 

[Theatregal]

A map of the world made with old tires by school children from Cirauqui in celebration of World Environment Day 2012.

 

[David Tallan]

Coming out of Rates in the early morning on the Camino Portugues in Povoa de Varzim. I really do love the dry stone construction I've seen on my caminos.

 

[SabsP]

From Porto to Vila do Conde.

 

[AlanSykes]

Nearing Toledo on the Camino de Levante, recognisibly the same view el Greco saw and painted over 400 years ago. One of the world's great cityscapes.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 26th, August, 2014 Walking between Pamplona and Uterga, looking back towards Pamplona, nearing the ascent to the Alto del Perdon.

 

[JohnLloyd]

An unexpected request.

 

[VNwalking]

About halfway between Bayonne and Pamplona on the Baztan.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Puente la Reina (with rain)

 

[David Tallan]

Pedra Furada, Camino Portugues Central, 41°27'56.6"N 8°38'08.0"W

 

[peregrina2000]

Undoubtedly for me, the wow-inducing vistas are those including either mountains or a romanesque church! But in another thread, @C clearly posted a beautiful photo of an ”unspectacular” landscape and described how it filled her with exhilaration. I am now remembering all the many hours I have spent walking through “boring” olive groves or fields of grain and being filled with awe at the beauty and feeling such a powerful sense of — I am ALIVE!!!!

This picture is from the Mozárabe, in between Alcaudete and Baeza, but it could be so many places where the olive groves just go on and on and on, and it’s just you and the olives.

 

[VNwalking]

Undoubtedly for me, the wow-inducing vistas are those including either mountains or a romanesque church! But in another thread, @C clearly posted a beautiful photo of an ”unspectacular” landscape and described how it filled her with exhilaration. I am now remembering all the many hours I have spent walking through “boring” olive groves or fields of grain and being filled with awe at the beauty and feeling such a powerful sense of — I am ALIVE!!!!

Amen.
The meseta is beloved for a reason - I often feel that way there, striding between the long earth and the vast sky. Photos don't capture that so well.

 

[Theatregal]

Sansol - I stood for a long time at this view. As @peregrina2000 says above...that moment of awe at the beauty of place.

 

[VNwalking]

Sansol - I stood for a long time at this view. As @peregrina2000 says above...that moment of awe at the beauty of place.

Wow. What a beautiful photo, and very different from my experience of that place. Driving rain howling wind and no visibility meant I didn't see how beautiful it actually was. I was just cold and wet and miserable...

 

[SabsP]

Detail again. Shoes at entrance of Albergue Casa Nostra in Castrojeriz. 2011.

 

[AlanSykes]

The Sierra Nevada last December from around 1400m up on the Camino Mozárabe. Just after the lovely sleepy village of Tocón de Quéntar, and a couple of days from Granada.

 

[Theatregal]

Wow. What a beautiful photo, and very different from my experience of that place. Driving rain howling wind and no visibility meant I didn't see how beautiful it actually was. I was just cold and wet and miserable...

Those dark clouds in the photo opened up soon after with sudden heavy rain. The next photo in my file after Sansol is of pilgrims struggling to get into their ponchos. Then 20 minutes later, there is a photo of the sky clearing with a rainbow over the landscape. I love having a record of the date and time of each photo - years later when some memories are sketchy, there is such great visual help piecing together a timeline of the day.

 

[Theatregal]

Detail again. Shoes at entrance of Albergue Casa Nostra in Castrojeriz. 2011.

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All so neatly lined up and beautifully framed by the tile on the wall and floor!!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

The next photo in my file after Sansol is of pilgrims struggling to get into their ponchos. Then 20 minutes later, there is a photo of the sky clearing with a rainbow over the landscape.

Please send these in.

 

[Theatregal]

Please send these in.

Here's the one with the rainbow. I can't post the poncho struggling pilgrims because I don't have permission from a couple of the people in the photo

 

[VNwalking]

All so neatly lined up and beautifully framed by the tile on the wall and floor!!

My first thought was that the hospitalera must have been Swiss.

Please send these in

Yes. Please.
Edit...our messages crossed. Thank you!

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 17th, May, 2018 Walking from Cobreces to Comillas, we walked passed this lovely little chapel in Pando and were able to go in, which didn't happen very often on the del Norte. You can see St James above the entrance way. Unfortunately, can't find the name of the chapel.

 

[JohnLloyd]

By some distance, the largest one I saw

 

[VNwalking]

This is especially for @peregrina2000 .
Ermita Nuestra Señora del Valle, just after Monasterio de Rodilla on the Via de Bayona.
I wish I had read that link before I walked - I would have spent more time there. Edit - I see it was under the jurisdiction of the Monastery in Oña, just off the Viejo. Monasterio de Rodilla was an important stop along the way that goes from Bordeaux to Asorga and its Roman predecessor is mentioned by Pliny. Now it is a sleepy town, completely shut on Tuesdays. Fair warning.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Today I simply have to send in two pictures. Despite appearances they do have something in common. They were taken along the early Francés so nearly every pilgrim reading this post has seen these places. What do they have in common?

Use the two spoiler buttons below the pictures for either a hint or the answer.





Click this spoiler button for a hint:

Spoiler

Here is a Google Streetview of the monument. Click to enlarge.

Click this spoiler button for the answer:

Spoiler

Despite looking like pictures taken in late summer and late autumn I took the pictures two minutes apart from the exact same spot.

November 10th outside of Uterga on the Pamplona side of the camino. 42.714,-1.757

See photos on Flickr taken near the monument to the Virgin Mary.

 

[VNwalking]

It's the madonna at the foot of the alto de perdon, as you come into Uterga, right? I am guessing that one photo's of the madonna looking back at the alto you probably just stumbled down (dang rocks!), and the other is taken looking towards the town.

 

[Former member 49149]

One is of the Sacred Heart. It has a feature beside it, wrought iron?, a shell. The setting is an open rectangular space, and so has the second picture , but even magnifying it I cannot see a matching shell feature...

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

It's the madonna at the foot of the alto de perdon, as you come into Uterga, right?

One is of the Sacred Heart. It has a feature beside it, wrought iron?, a shell. The setting is an open rectangular space, and so has the second picture , but even magnifying it I cannot see a matching shell feature...

I edited my post a tiny bit to insert the pictures full size and I also wrote before the pictures "Use the two spoiler buttons below the pictures for either a hint or the answer".

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I am guessing that one photo's of the madonna looking back at the alto you probably just stumbled down (dang rocks!)

On this trip I walked up the rocky part of the trail. My daily goal was Pamplona. I've got to admit that that section slowed us down a bit 4 years before and Peg normally flew down similar trails.

 

[Theatregal]

Today’s photo(s) are of my camino friends George (on the left) and Mike on the Frances, September 2012. People called them the most photographed pilgrims from the back on the camino . Drying laundry, bandanas, bags of food…everything attached to the pack with George’s special clips. I first met them on the climb to Alto Perdon. It was a very hot day and they were sharing a small circle of shade under a tree. I stopped to chat and it seemed like they were old friends. They were so happy to be on this adventure, joking and cheering each other on. Later I found out they had just met the day before and decided to become walking buddies.

The camino was a religious pilgrimage for George and I will always remember a wonderful long conversation about faith that I had with him on the stage to Lorca. Due to illness, George had to leave the camino twice but returned 2 more times to continue and complete his walk to Santiago.

I just heard today that sadly, George passed away on June 7. Rest in peace to a wonderfully kind man.

 

[SabsP]

On the Portugues in 2015 I met German Sabine, same name as I. She is an occupational therapist ( also worked in mental health like I so we had alot in common ) . She also gives painting workshops ( she made gorgeous daily sketches ) Her " artist " name is BIN ( short for Sabine but in German also meaning ' I am " ).
We walked on our own during the day but we covered the same distances so we shared a mix of albergue and private rooms.
In Santiago she gave me this wonderful small shell ( that she picked up in Fisterre ) with this beautiful dedication.

 

[SabsP]

Are others here also having difficulties loading the pictures here lately? Should we use the thumbnail function?

 

[Former member 49149]

Are others here also having difficulties loading the pictures here lately? Should we use the thumbnail function?

Actually, I was even wondering does it need closing of this set of posts and opening a part 2? Maybe thumbnail is the answer, though...

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Portuguese- 29th, April, 2016 Walking into Tomar after a long walk from Golega on quite a warm day.

 

[VNwalking]

Actually, I was even wondering does it need closing of this set of posts and opening a part 2? Maybe thumbnail is the answer, though...

Good idea. I will start a new thread now.

 

[VNwalking]

So the new thread is live!
I will have the mods close this thread for further replies.
Thank you, everyone, for the wonderful sharing...please keep them coming!