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A long (winding) road.

DoughnutANZ

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I love photos that show the Camino path ahead or behind. Especially photos with a long perspective. These photos seem to draw me into them.

I am wondering if anyone else shares my delight in these photos and so I have created this thread as a place to share them.

Please minimise your photos if you add them. Please also let us know the approximate area where the photo was taken. You could also add the date if you wish or not at your preference.

I will start it off with three of my favourites and will add others from time to time.


1 West of Santibáñez de Valdeiglesias, Camino Frances
2 South of Grajal de Campos, Camino Madrid
3 Triacastela, Camino Frances
 
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Have also a few. Many from allmost exactly the same spot as the ones in this thread .
 
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Excellent idea for a thread, DoughnutANZ! These types of views create in me an irresistible urge to move forward and explore the world.

Thanks, everyone, for sharing your wonderful photos.
 
 
I took loads of photos, this perspective was one of my favorites. This was my first, just before I reached Auberge Borda, looking back towards SJPdP.
 

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I have this picture of the Via de la Plata (10 kilometers before Salamanca as a wallpaper. Just to reminder me I can "get on the road again" When I want do. ( on april 3 I will start in Sevilla again and hope to reach salamanca again, my favourite city on the VdlP.
 
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Debora said:
Of the Caminos you listed, do you have a favorite?
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Hi Debora,

The first that I walked was the Francés and I have fond impressions of it seeing it was my first pilgrimage and all was new and exciting ( or less but you understand ).
I did like the Portugues from Porto because I was able to walk it during a regular holidaytime and it was long enough to get into the " pilgrimvibe ".
The most gorgeous Camino in terms of nature and landscape ( and food and restaurants ) was the Camino Vasco Interior.
 
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Can you explain how to do that please, SabsP?
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I am loving seeing your photos! Here are a couple of mine. The first two are on the Frances in September 2021 and the last on Ingles in October 23.
 

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This is so cool to have it as wall paper, beautiful idea
 
I think this was after Villamayor de Monjardin in April 2015:


Approaching Villamayor de Monjardin (I have taken multiple photos of this scene over the years; one of my favorites on the CF).



The road seems a bit longer when it's wet and windy (purchased an Altus poncho in Santo Domingo the next day and donated this one to a soaked cyclist. It probably didn't do her much good in the wind):


Thank you DoughnutANZ for an excuse to procrastinate and relive favorite memories (even the wet ones).
 
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am completely blown away by these beautiful photographs and the combined talents of this forum.

Muchas gracias!

It was a gorgeous sight to wake up to this morning.
 
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I love this thread! These are my favorite type of Camino photos and I’d add to the thread but I have so many, yet I regret not taking more.

I do love, that when on the Camino, when someone starts to take these kinds of pictures people respectfully step aside or pause to let you get your shot. It’s like an unspoken rule of courtesy. No one questions why you are taking a picture of a dirt path, they appreciate that you see something beautiful because they do too.
 
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Day 3 at 1:30 of my walk from Barcelona to Monserrat. I have to go halfway up. This would normally be the only shot I'd post for this walk but ...


two hours earlier I took this one when I stopped at a boulder to eat. Not too bad. @DoughnutANZ said we could look behind us too. Ten minutes after stopping here I did because ...


I had visitors. There were a few more too.
 
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DoughnutANZ,

Thank you so much for starting your wonderful new thread which has inspired so many posted camino photos of "long trails (winding)". Bravo!

As we all recall our favorite views I wonder if your title comes from a memory of the chorus of the song The Long, Long Trail .

Written in 1913 with lyrics by Stoddard King and music by Alonzo "Zo" Elliot when both were at Yale Collège this song rallied English-speaking troops throughout the western front during World War I.

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Chorus
.."There's a long, long trail a-winding
Into the land of my dreams,
Where the nightingales are singing
And a white moon beams.
There's a long, long night of waiting
Until my dreams all come true;
Till the day when I'll be going down
That long, long trail with you."
 
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What a beautiful song and a beautiful thought from you . Thank you!

I probably had this song in mind though:

The long and winding road
That leads to your door
Will never disappear
I've seen that road before
It always leads me here
Leads me to your door

The wild and windy night
That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tears
Crying for the day
Why leave me standing here?
Let me know the way.

By the Beatles.

The "Road" represents many different metaphors for me though including the obvious connection with life as a journey and my search for truth and, in particular, one step along that way.

There is another powerful metaphor for me that speaks of love lost or just out of reach.

The imagery in this thread, the songs mentioned and the following poem seems to encapsulate all these things for me.

When the Lotus opened, I didn't notice and walked away empty handed.

Only now and again do I suddenly sit up from my dreams to smell a strange fragrance. It comes on the south wind, a vague hint that makes me ache with longing, like the eager breath of summer wanting to be completed. I didn't know what was so near, or that it was mine.

Rabindranath Tagore
 
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