A daily dose of Vitamin C - one day at a time, one photo at a time (12)

[Kirkie]

Camino Portugués 2013. Tui, and the guy running the show swished out with this amuse bouche for us all before the main dish…’Chorizo al infierno'

 

[SabsP]

O Cebreiro 2011.
Very atmospheric.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Trinidad de Arre

photo taken January 11, 2010



Arriving here had been difficult since the CF path from Zubiri was covered with ice and snow; I had mainly walked on the verges of route N-135.

As the only pilgrim I could sleep not in the dorm but in a tiny cell behind the church altar in my sleeping bag covered with their blankets but NO heat ! All truly was freezing!!

 

[Josep Montserrat]

Levaniego + Vadiniense.
Albergue de Queveda

 

[VNwalking]

The walls of Lugo, on the Primitivo. April 2024.

 

[SabsP]

My fellow peregrina. Walking towards Miranda de Ebro.
Camino Vasco Interior 2019.

 

[VNwalking]

Walking towards Miranda de Ebro.

What an amazing sky, and the straightness of a Roman road.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port,
55 rue de la Citadelle

photo taken October 13, 2015



The famous red door of the municipal albergue with its welcoming shell was ajar. Crossing that special threshold symbolically always began my new camino adventure; it is a magical entrance to another way of life, the camino way....Serendipity prevails.
For me the Camino Frances could ONLY begin at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, this picturesque Basque mountain town in the French Pyrenees.

 

[VNwalking]

From the Baztan, 2017.
Nearing the top of the highest hill of this short but hilly camino, the way climbs above tree line on an ancient road. The edges are marked by massive standing stones, presumably winter waymarks.

 

[OzAnnie]

16 March 2024,
VDLP section between Embalse del Alcántara and Cañaveral. Ghostly sheep appearing in the mist. A beautiful day. My walking friend and I continued to Grimaldo because (there no longer being an Albergue at the embalse ) we had taken a taxi from
Casar de Cásares to the embalse ..to start the day from the embalse …. .

…

 

[SabsP]

Ameyugo. 2019.
Via de Bayona.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port
Porte de Saint Jacques

photo taken October 14, 2015



A new day was dawning in the eastern sky beyond the medieval Porte; soon my last camino would begin as I turned away from the Porte to walk west toward Orreaga/Roncesvalles on the original pass through the mountains which rises from the Cols des Cize/Urhart-Cize on the east to Ibaneta on the west.

 

[Josep Montserrat]

Levaniego + Vadiniense.
Cuevas de Altamira.
I took advantage of the afternoon visiting the caves of Altamira.
A very important prehistoric site. Two kilometres from Santillana del Mar.

 

[Rowena]

April 24, 2022 Camino Invierno
Continuing along the Rio Sil, through the town of O Barco de Valdeorras

 

[VNwalking]

Coming to the top of the Alto de Perdon, Camino Frances, 2017.

 

[SabsP]

Segura.
2019. Camino Vasco Interior.

 

[Bill905]

I took the following photo in Le Puy as I started on the Via Podiensis in May 2022 ...



I was a little disappointed. I thought I could make out that it was a scallop shell that basically indicated the transition from the city of Le Puy, into the Camino countryside. I wished I could have gotten a higher perspective. But then I realized there is a better perspective ... from Google maps! Et voilá

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
towards Valcarlos, arrow

photo taken February 6, 2007



Just after dawn in a cold mist I set off alone thrilled to be moving towards new adventures on this 3rd CF but my first in winter. As always I would follow the Valcarlos alternate route.

Signage on the Valcarlos route often included miniscule yellow arrows rather randomly attached to trees, logs, etc. One often hoped that you were going the right way!

 

[VNwalking]

The Valcarlos route is so special. It begins innocently enough, with flat-ish road walking. The hills up there are to be crossed, today.
March 2015:

 

[SabsP]

Arrows. Gazeo. Camino Vasco Interior 2019.

 

[Kirkie]

Maybe, Portugues. Maybe in a village on Ribera Sacra...
I know that @mspath found the gallery this painting is in. I just loved the way the artist caught the character of the woman. a detail from the whole painting.

 

[mspath]

Maybe, Portugues. Maybe in a village on Ribera Sacra...
I know that @mspath found the gallery this painting is in. I just loved the way the artist caught the character of the woman. a detail from the whole painting.

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Kirkie,
The painting is in
this museum. Here is a screenshot!!

Here is the reply from the museum

Enviados: Domingo, 13 de Marzo 2022 17:18:44
Buenas tardes,

La obra a la que usted se refiere corresponde a Ventura Álvarez Sala (Gijón 1869 - 1919) y su título es PESCADORAS DE MARISCO de 1912, siendo la obra, óleo sobre lienzo.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances, Valcarlos route
Arnéguy
markers

photo taken October 15, 2014



At Arnéguy on the French/Spanish border this stelle depicting chevaliers/ caballeros framed a nearby sign pointing to the Spanish continuation of the CF towards Luzaide/Valcarlos, Ibaneta, and Orreaga/Roncesvalles.

 

[VNwalking]

On the Valcarlos way, above Gainekoleta the way follows the valley and then starts to get seriously steep. Up there, the moss is glorious. Frances March 2015

 

[Rover20]

Daybreak in Galician countryside near Vilei (Oct 8, 2017)

 

[Kanga]

Resting among the lavender, on the Via de la Plata, 2018. It was a long walk.

 

[VNwalking]

Resting among the lavender

Too bad the photo doesn't come with scent.
We plant and tend it in gardens, but isn't it lovely to see it growing wild?

 

[stewinyvr]

St Jean Pied de Port was not as tranquil as I had seen in the pictures...thankfully I had to a day to decompress from jetlag, so started my walk the next morning, when the sun came out..the running theme when meeting others who had walked from SJPDP was whether they walked on the stormy day or the sunny day

 

[Theatregal]

Camino Invierno. June 14, 2019.
Past Quiroga after taking an odd detour through San Clodio. Didn't mind though - a beautiful day and there were lovely views from the two bridges on either side of town. Phewf! Grateful for those two arrows. One most certainly wouldn't have been enough

 

[Josep Montserrat]

Levaniego + Vadiniense.
Cuevas de Altamira.
The caves where the original paintings are located has restricted access to scientists and experts.
For visitors they have built a reproduction of the entire caves with the paintings.

 

[mspath]

Levaniego + Vadiniense.
Cuevas de Altamira.
The caves where the original paintings are located has restricted access to scientists and experts.
For visitors they have built a reproduction of the entire caves with the paintings.
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JM,
I, too, visited the real Altamira circa 1968 when I was 29. All was quite dark and very "spooky". Afterwards I had a very strong drink and a very good lunch at the nearby Parador to recuperate. It was an unforgetable day!!

 

[VNwalking]

St Jean Pied de Port was not as tranquil as I had seen in the pictures...thankfully I had to a day to decompress from jetlag, so started my walk the next morning, when the sun came out..the running theme when meeting others who had walked from SJPDP was whether they walked on the stormy day or the sunny day
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My word. That's incredible.
It normally looks more like this, for context:

 

[roving_rufus]

Just to make life confusing on the Via Bayona - on stage Briviesca to Monasterio (especially as the choice was a a track or a road along the N1)

 

[Kirkie]

My national emblem. We can be a bit prickly.
Well, some of us.
Salvador, 2017.