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This old Christian kinda wishes he'd done that...! Maybe next time.This old pagan picked up a souvenir on its latest visit. View attachment 35178 View attachment 35178
Love that t-shirt!This old pagan picked up a souvenir on its latest visit. View attachment 35178 View attachment 35178
There is a Facebook page about Camino tatoos if you need some non-devine inspiration.This old Christian kinda wishes he'd done that...! Maybe next time.
Pax
Dr Mortiss Tattoo Clinic, Rua San Pedro 62 will oblige. Took about an hour of cheerful camino chat. I did have to sign a form to affirm that I was of sound mind (which I feel is a bit of a challenge for the average serial pilgrim) and that I was not under the influence of alcohol (does Orujo count?). But I felt that it was about time I ensured that this pilgrim got buried with his shellI want one of those!!
Dr Mortiss Tattoo Clinic, Rua San Pedro 62 will oblige. Took about an hour of cheerful camino chat. I did have to sign a form to affirm that I was of sound mind (which I feel is a bit of a challenge for the average serial pilgrim) and that I was not under the influence of alcohol (does Orujo count?). But I felt that it was about time I ensured that this pilgrim got buried with his shell.
Got that address written down. I have a hummingbird tat I got for myself when I turned 50 (so it's an OLD tat) and I just may get a shell on the other arm with the dates of the Caminos. Perhaps that will even me out and I won't walk crooked...Dr Mortiss Tattoo Clinic, Rua San Pedro 62 will oblige. Took about an hour of cheerful camino chat. I did have to sign a form to affirm that I was of sound mind (which I feel is a bit of a challenge for the average serial pilgrim) and that I was not under the influence of alcohol (does Orujo count?). But I felt that it was about time I ensured that this pilgrim got buried with his shell.
Got that address written down. I have a hummingbird tat I got for myself when I turned 50 (so it's an OLD tat) and I just may get a shell on the other arm with the dates of the Caminos. Perhaps that will even me out and I won't walk crooked...
Dr of what, of I may ask?Dr Mortiss Tattoo Clinic ....
Ha, snap, I have one of those, it's below my ankle in the site of a very large blister that errored my foot to the point that you could see down to the bone. Took 3 years for it to heal then I drew a shell on it and had it tattooed on... Given its location and the many kms walked since it is a bit warn now. Scott got his done on his shin, where he got shin splints. Our tattoos were always a memory of how the pain of the Camino gets under your skin.This old pagan picked up a souvenir on its latest visit. View attachment 35178 View attachment 35178
Got that address written down. I have a hummingbird tat I got for myself when I turned 50 (so it's an OLD tat) and I just may get a shell on the other arm with the dates of the Caminos. Perhaps that will even me out and I won't walk crooked...
How thoughtful of you! Peg is a lucky gal.Along the way when Peg wasn't looking I picked up a pack patch or two, several pins and a couple of other trinkets, a few postcards and shells painted with St. James' cross (we walked with some shells picked up from a beach near home.) I put them all in a packet. When Peg got her Compostella I presented her with her completion packet.
Yes, I see the yellow arrow on her pack. She looks confused in that picture. I think she is looking for yellow arrows to guide her on that NZ trail and there are none to be found!Yep. She finally got to see New Zealand. Here she is on the Milford Track. Maybe you can recognize something on her pack.
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By the way, now on the non-visible side of the pack, is a Milford Track patch.
Off topic here but earlier on the track there were tall stakes driven next to the trail so you could follow it when it is covered with a meter of water (the track was dry for us -- we were so lucky in so many ways with that hike.)think she is looking for yellow arrows to guide her on that NZ trail and there are none to be found!
They let you take them through customs.... Scott always wanted to bring home some of those Spainish Pigs, no way with nz bio security though, so we ended up buying a walnut orchard so he could raise his own pigs, he was a happy little swine herd bringing his piglets in and out of the fields on his very own Camino.View attachment 35239 Fell in love with these giant salted roasted sunflower seeds and took a few packets home with me. Alas, unlike that lovely tattoo, they are long gone. I have always been highly motivated by food.
Declared and safely cleared. Roasting and salting is fine because it kills any microbes. This solution may not be appropriate if you want your Spanish piglets to be alive when they get through customs!They let you take them through customs.... Scott always wanted to bring home some of those Spainish Pigs, no way with nz bio security though, so we ended up buying a walnut orchard so he could raise his own pigs, he was a happy little swine herd bringing his piglets in and out of the fields on his very own Camino.
OMG, I hope you don't mean either the 'absolutely gorgeous' young man in your photo OR the tat?This old pagan picked up a souvenir on its latest visit. View attachment 35178 View attachment 35178
But they would be delicious.Declared and safely cleared. Roasting and salting is fine because it kills any microbes. This solution may not be appropriate if you want your Spanish piglets to be alive when they get through customs!
PS Can I visit you?
It's the brown man-apron thing that's got you in a tizzy, Tigger. He looks like trouble to me. Big Fun Smiling Wonderful Trouble. You don't want to bring trouble home as a souvenir.OMG, I hope you don't mean either the 'absolutely gorgeous' young man in your photo OR the tat?
On second thoughts, I would take the young man!
I love it!I bought a nice leather key ring a few years ago.
Wish you all well,Peter.
I don't know but his Christian name is Rigor!Dr of what, of I may ask?
Ha, yes well we tend to leave the salting and roasting of our porkers till after they have been fattened on nuts. They may not be ibericos but they a damn tasty, or so I am told, as I am a vegetarian! This is always a huge joke with our customers, being a nut farmer it's hard enough to be taken seriously but a vego swine herd, well, at lest the pigs are well cared for and they provide us with a very tangible Camino memory.Declared and safely cleared. Roasting and salting is fine because it kills any microbes. This solution may not be appropriate if you want your Spanish piglets to be alive when they get through customs!
I'm not sure about the tattoo, but the beard sure is handsome!
Not nice. I spit my coffee on the computer. You are wonderful Kanga.Relax @Bogong.
Perhaps if we all put on the fake beard and mustache...Trouble is it comes up on all my posts. I hope Bongong and @Tincatinker get online soon so I can shave.
Perhaps if we all put on the fake beard and mustache...
Saved to my Album of the very best of Camino images
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You can reach for the shaver now Kanga
I remember two days before SDC girls in the albergue commenting on women exiting the shower. Days. Weeks. Days. Weeks. Trying to guess how long they'd been walking by how long the leg hair was. When I came out I stuck my leg out of the towel and said Months! And they rolled on the floor laughing.This thred has got officially weird... I'll stick to my hairy walking legs and leave the holiday beard growing to the blokes,,.
Thaks for your post. Yes the best souvenirs one can get is the memories included the Credentials one get on the pilgrimage.View attachment 35175 I must admit I'm not into tourist tack, memories are the best souvenirs we have of our caminos. But after a recent discussion over compostellas, and I totally agree these are not souvenirs, I am interested in what others have brought along the way to take home as a souvenir.
The only one I have is a truely wonderful bottle opener, Scott picked it up at a flea market on the steps of a cathedral on our last trip. It's of Jimmy as a pilgrim, complete with staff and gourd. We opened many a beer with it and watched the dust setttle over the way at the end of the day.
A T-shirt and a fleece with appropriate logos. Bought my wife a black azabache scallop shell necklace and our usual collectibles, fridge magnets and snow globes. On my second camino however, the souvenir was the compostela documented with my wifes name. She cannot walk it so I walked it for herView attachment 35175 I must admit I'm not into tourist tack, memories are the best souvenirs we have of our caminos. But after a recent discussion over compostellas, and I totally agree these are not souvenirs, I am interested in what others have brought along the way to take home as a souvenir.
The only one I have is a truely wonderful bottle opener, Scott picked it up at a flea market on the steps of a cathedral on our last trip. It's of Jimmy as a pilgrim, complete with staff and gourd. We opened many a beer with it and watched the dust setttle over the way at the end of the day.
I love that.. She cannot walk it so I walked it for her
The kind of stuff I like: artisan, never really made to make much moeny.A small crook from the back yard forge near Irache winery. Not heavy to carry and a special token of memories.
Oh I really like your beard filled in like it is in the souvenir pic. Nice tat also.This old pagan picked up a souvenir on its latest visit. View attachment 35178 View attachment 35178
I plan to get on of those on my right shoulder blade when I complete my camino.This old pagan picked up a souvenir on its latest visit. View attachment 35178 View attachment 35178
On the same theme, of shoulders, backpack straps impressions would also make for a suitable Camino souvenir, at least for those carrying 50% of their weight in their packs.I plan to get on of those on my right shoulder blade when I complete my camino.
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