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Probably going there week after next, will be some kind of ghastly 3:30AM start out from home and then a train day there and back.
Thanks !!Wishing you safe passage. Loved the photo of your boots and of the blue sky last fall. We are still waiting for borders to reopen to Americans (which may be never if people here don't wise up!)
And again yesterday.I actually managed to walk the full length of my basic training hike.
That sounds exciting!Yep, I'm definitely getting back onto the Camino some short while after May 9th -- France is opening up again on the 3rd, and whilst even in lockdown I'm one of the few lucky ones still able to travel, this reopening will still make the other end of my return journey to Lleida somewhat less complicated.
Well, that was ... interesting.Going on foot pilgrimage tomorrow -- 1st May is the Diocesan Pilgrimage to the local Marian Shrine.
Safe Journey!OK -- test Monday, result Tuesday, departure Wednesday.
Absolutely !!You are on the camino @JabbaPapa !
Cause for rejoicing.
If I've no cerveza, the pain is so bad, it makes long-distance walking basically impossible.And maybe see if it makes a difference to save the cerveza for post walk refreshment.
Orange juice I have to studiously avoid, except when I need a quick sugar delivery system. It, and many other things, will directly worsen my inflammation, and therefore increase my pain.Alcolhol both is diuretic and messes up thermoregulation. Plain zumo de naranja or zumo and soda half-half will hydrate and cool you down better in that heat.)
Absolutely.Best hydration as always is from water.
Me, too. Heat zaps my energy.Give me cold any day over heat.
Ice under the hat helps.
Seriously.
When you take a break to cool off, put a few cubes in your hat before you head back out the door. It works wonders.
Day 82 -- towards Monzalbarba
I am so sloooooooow .....
I can make it there, but who knows how long that will take ... Still, from there it's about 1K to Utebo, maybe after it cools down a bit ; or maybe not.
Scuttling from one shaded spot to the next, it's the heat of the afternoon.
Would make no difference compared to my Stetson ; once I overcome a potential trail sunstroke problem, that's always been that, and once only, for each Camino.Have you considered using an umbrella for the sun? Just asking.
Well, maybe, but you need all the help you can get! With an umbrella you would have more air circulating around your head. Maybe I shouldn't talk, because I have never used an umbrella for walking in the sun - it hasn't yet won in the weight-versus-function assessment for me. However, I would definitely consider it if I were walking in summer conditions.Would make no difference compared to my Stetson
Please continue to do so !!PS..will stop hijacking this thread!
Thanks for mentioning this, because it led me here; this church tower is very beautiful, and very interesting!:seems to have been converted from a mosque after the Reconquista. The church tower looks similar to the one in Monzalbarba, though there the tower is all that remains.
Situada apenas a unos 10 kilómetros de la capital, Utebo es en la actualidad la localidad más populosa del área metropolitana de Zaragoza, contando con unos 18.000 habitantes que la convierten, tras la propia ciudad y Calatayud, en la tercera población de la provincia demográficamente hablando.
Pese a su moderna expansión al amparo del poder de atracción que ejerce Zaragoza, Utebo ha sabido conservar en su primitivo casco antiguo la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, sin duda, una de las obras más relevantes del mudéjar aragonés.
Erigida probablemente sobre una obra anterior, presenta el templo actual dos partes bien diferenciadas: una primera datable a mediados del siglo XVI que comprendería el cuerpo de la nave y el campanario; y una segunda fase barroca en la que se sustituyó la cabecera y se dotó al conjunto de un revestimiento a base de capillas laterales y un portal de ingreso de tipo clasicista.
En ocasiones, la propia belleza y magnificencia del campanario provoca que tienda a menospreciarse el resto de la fábrica, en la que, pese a las reformas tardías y al hecho de quedar algo asfixiada por construcciones anejas, se observan restos de la obra original, como cornisas, contrafuertes y óculos dotados de celosías caladas de gran interés.
Al interior, cuenta con una sola nave cubierta con bóvedas de crucería a la que abren, a cada uno de sus lados, capillas entre contrafuertes, conservándose en ellas restos de su azulejería original en zócalos y arrimaderos. El tramo cabecero, que bien pudo ser en origen de planta poligonal, fue substituido por una nueva cabecera dieciochesca.
La torre campanario es, con diferencia, el elemento más destacable de la parroquia de la Asunción de Utebo, pudiendo equipararse en su estilo y monumentalidad con las mundialmente reconocidas de la ciudad de Teruel. Responde al reiterado modelo aragonés del tipo de los alminares almohades, con su machón central, caja de escaleras y revestimiento murario exterior.
Consta de un primer cuerpo cuadrangular subdividido a su vez en dos registros separados entre sí por una sobresaliente cornisa. El primero de ellos despliega paneles de arcos entrecruzados prolongados a modo de red de sebka, una malla a base de rombos, y casetones rehundidos. El segundo, de mayor sencillez, presenta una nueva banda de arquillos entrecruzados y arcos de medio punto doblados a modo de hornacinas.
Llama poderosamente la atención también en este primer cuerpo la existencia de una banda epigráfica sobre azulejo en la que fue plasmada la fecha en que finalizó su construcción (1544), y la identidad de su artífice (Alonso de Leznes).
Tras el segundo cuerpo, la estructura del campanario se torna poligonal, razón por la cual, hay quién ha interpretado que podría tratarse de una ampliación, hipótesis descartada por la mayoría de especialistas.
Este cuerpo alto, de apariencia mucho más ligera y esbelta, reitera los paneles decorativos a base de formas geométricas en convivencia con una considerable profusión de ornamentación a base de azulejería cerámica en tonos blancos, verdes y azules. Es precisamente ese brillo que le confiere a la estructura la gran cantidad de azulejos incrustados la que ha hecho merecedora a la torre de Utebo del apelativo del "campanar de los espejos".
Sabine, it's unsurprising that you remember little of Utebo, given that the waymarked trail avoids about 95% of the barrio.
Things will get back to normal of course ( and good so ) but even then this is a lonely route so they will not see much people anyway.One advantage of the albergue being "closed" is they didn't charge anything. My guess is I'm the first pilgrim they've seen since the municipal reopening from restrictions, and they'll not take too long after this to get things back to normal.
This system is working very well indeed.Yay, got my utility "hand-held device" that I'm using basically as a mini-tablet connected to my Windows Phone's internet
Haha, @JabbaPapa , look at all of us. Who's 'normal?' Certainly not we who take to the road for days on end. And sweet shops every 50 yards? Bring 'em on! Sustinence for the times when the bottom drops out and there's still a monster hill to climb before day's end.Sweet shops every 50 yards, strange and unusual bars, had to basically walk to the other side of town to find some more or less normal people, which reminds me of so many similarly bizarre places in France
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