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Cherished souvenirs

Dazzerrtw

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April 2024
I’m sure many will have cherished souvenirs from their Camino. We had our certificates framed and have them on our bedroom landing wall . However today I was looking at our pilgrims passport and think they also need frames and adding to the wall as each stamp brings back memories of each day . What is your favourite souvenir that you have kept from your Camino ?
 

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In our home, we have a tradition at Christmas where the tree is decorated with items from our adventures and travels. We love to remember the times as we we put up items on the tree, and one of my favourite is the pilgrim sea shell.
 
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I certainly value my credencials, and have my credencials from my 2016 Camino with my son framed and on the wall. But I think I value my photos more.

If you are going to frame and display your credencials, I would take a good photo of it first, and use UV resistant glass when framing. Many of the stamps on my framed credencials have really faded
 
I think my favourite treasure is going to come from my latest Camino, which, ironically, was my least favourite walk.
It will either be this picture, drawn from the second row of the Galician Symphony Orchestra concert at Sobrado Monastery (because of the memories of a magical night it evokes):

Or in a similar vein, this wee picture I scribbled as these musicians played in Santiago - they asked for a photo of the picture so I asked for their autographs (the double bass player had grabbed a stool by the time I took my photo but he had started standing up and I’d drawn him first)



OR it might be the cross stitch I am making of the board game El Juego de la Oca (The Game of the Goose), which I naively thought I would complete on the Camino - I still have 60 segments still to go!)


But most probably it will be my journal/credencial:
 
My credential(s) absolutely. But, the day after I arrived in Santiago I bought a silver concha. It’s been around my neck since 2017 except when the original chain broke and for an occasional cleaning. That’s with me every day. I also have a rock I picked up coming down from Acebo in 2019. I don’t know why I picked it up or why I have it 5 years later.
 
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@Kiwi-family we were both in the audience for that wonderful concert at the Sobrado Monastery last month. How lovely to see some of your sketches here. I had been told there was a pilgrim sketching the orchestra by another Kiwi, Tessa, who sat next to you that night - she showed me a sketch of yours on her phone, in fact. We walked to SdC together over the following 2 days.
 
Of course the compostela and credencial. But there are a few others I hold close. There's the small medal from the Sacre Couer that I picked up on my stop in Paris on the way to SJPDP (just visited the basilica again two weeks ago and it is as magnificent as ever), my first camino journal (never did much journaling after that), and a small rosary that rode in my pocket on the CdF in 2014 and has ever since. That last one is a prized possession, though if it were lost I'd replace it and it would have (almost) the same significance to me.
 
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This. The only one in a shop in Toledo. Never saw another one anywhere else I went in Spain.
De colores
Bogong
 

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Awesome! Where did you get the Camino map you have there?
 
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I bought a hand wrought iron shell from the blacksmith near the free wine stop. I think that was Irun. I have added other crosses and symbols to the necklace such as the wooded Tao from the nuns near the ruined church that you walk through and more recently the three legged crow from the Kumano Kodo. I wear this everyday that I hike both in training and on Caminos. It now has quite a bundle of memories.
 
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I believe that fountain was Irache?
 
dbier said:
I believe that fountain was Irache?
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Yes, the ironworks are close to Irache. nice guy working there, I also got one of the iron shells as a gift, and got my first sello (pretty) of the day there.

fairly cool in the morning (September), for the life of me I wonder how he stands working with the heat of the forge in the summer...

aiming to walk the kumano kodo in October - what's the story of the three legged crow?

thanks, and Buen Camino, eric
 
The 3-legged crow, Yatagarasu is the emblem of the Kumano shrines across Japan. It represents rebirth and rejuvenation of the Sun. The 3 legs symbolise Heaven, Earth and Mankind.
When you walk both the Kumano Kodo and the Camino you qualify for the dual Camino certificate and it is this crow that represents the Japanese side.
 
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Chizuru- domo arigato!

OP: actually went back and looked at the sello from the ironworks…it’s in Ayagui. Think it’s just a short distance before Irache, but it’s been a couple of years…

Eric
 
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