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On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 10.0

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We saw this interesting door in the morning after we left Casa de Jesus, Villar de Mazarife, heading to Hospital de Orbigo, just a short day. June, 2022.
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@Anne&Pat The door caught my eye too! I did a bit of research on it a while back. This house was the final studio and home of the Leonese artist / sculptor Luis López Casado, also known as Monseñor, who died in 2009. His home is now a museum.
 
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This is a part of the track on the Voie du Littorale, which runs parallel to the 200km long beach of Les Landes in SW France. This part utilises the original German motorcycle track connecting defensive positions of the Atlantic Wall in WW2. It is only about a metre wide.
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Libredon Barbantes hostal

March 3-4, 2008



From my cosy attic room's ceiling window when seeing the Torre da Berenguela as well as hearing the great bells chime; I felt as if that belltower view and those sounds were mine alone!
 
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Monte Irago albergue
blizzard

photo taken March 4, 2009



Fourteen yeqrs ago today I took this photo through an icy albergue window as proof of the blizzard which obliterated the nearby landscape in deep snow. My diary/blog describes this 3 day 2009 storm spent snowbound sharing albergue warmth and camaraderie.
 
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Xunta albergue

March 6, 2008



These adjacent stone farm buildings have been handsomely repurposed; dorms on the left and dining/commons room are separated by a central path.
 
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Believed to have been carved over 4,000 years ago at the beginning of the Bronze-Age, these petroglyphs can be found on the Spiritual Variant of the Camino Portugués.



The "Petroglifo das Forcadas" (left) is in Campañó, while the "Petroglifo Outeiro do Cribo" (right) is a short climb off-camino in the woods on the way to Armenteira.
Photos taken in September, 2022.
 
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near Cée

March 7, 2008


From a hilltop near Cée could be glimpsed the silvery sea with Finisterra in the far distance. Imagine the astonishment of medieval pilgrims when they crested that hill and first saw the sea!
 
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March 26, 2022
Iglesia de Santiago, Puente la Reina

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Interesting how well-preserved the carved details are on the right hand side, while centuries of rain and hail storms have almost erased everything on the left. Bad weather tends to always come from the same direction.
 
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March 8, 2008



By the sculpted last boot on the rocks the sea was the color of pewter and the clouds above dove gray. After sitting here for a long time while silently saying my thanks, I walked slowly back to town. ... My 4th camino was over.
 
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towards Vézelay
near Villenauxe-la-Grande, France

photo taken November 22, 2008



Autumn 2008 I walked 220 km. from our farmhouse on the Marne River to Vézelay. The cold was bitter but the sun was bright on local paths/roads through wood and open farmland.
 
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Interesting how well-preserved the carved details are on the right hand side, while centuries of rain and hail storms have almost erased everything on the left. Bad weather tends to always come from the same direction.
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That is a really interesting observation, thank you! In this photo from 2007, the erosion pattern can also be seen. I never thought to look for it before you mentioned it, but now I can see it too.

 
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One of the most beautiful albergue gardens I encountered on the Camino Francés.
Boadilla del Camino, albergue "En el Camino", June 2017.

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Quite! The effect, pushing open the door, was magical! The experience (2006) was such a treat, starting with the superb accommodation for €5.00, sheets included, spotless shower and loo facilities, the kidney shaped pool, the offer of a communal meal... thanks for the memories!
 
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Auxerre, France
Cathédrale Saint Étienne

photo taken November 28, 2008



The cathedral city of Auxerre is the departure point for an historical walking route/ l'ancienne route d'Auxerre á Vézelay crossing Burgundian farmland/vineyards southeast to the Abbey at Vézelay.
 
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A real breakfast on the Meseta from 2019 and again in 2022...View attachment 142863
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Welcome Greg to this thread. Your photo is very appetising but it took a long time to load. If you wouldn’t mind posting thumbnail photos instead because of the number of photos on this thread for ease of loading.
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Vézelay, France
Basilique

photo taken December 4, 2008



Entering the light of the ambulatory I was silently thankful to simply be after walking from home.
Vezelay Abbey and la colline éternelle
have been a love of mine for 50+ years. Romanesque, Gothic, and 19th c. intervention form timeless beauty here; eternal peace is melded with man-made perfection.
...May this magnificent site always endure.
 
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Guchan, France
view south towards Spain

January 2012



Guchan, a handsome mountain village in the Hautes-Pyrénées, is on the French hiking route GR105 which crosses the valley of the river Aure between Lortet and Port d'Ouridissétou where it connects with Spanish caminos leading towards Santiago.
 
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Dis you stay there that time? Was it doable regarding hygiene because I know it is sometimes hit and miss with this place.
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Yes, I did stay there. I didn’t notice anything amiss regarding cleanliness, but I didn’t take a shower because it was freezing cold that day, inside and outside, and I couldn’t bring myself to strip down!
 
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April 2014. Camino Ingles. Pension Bar Luis in Pontedeume.
When you do not have a clothingline but only a safetypin and a shutter.

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We stayed there in July, 2022. We found a Lavanderia just down the road and round the corner, on the main road through town, so we didn’t need to use the shutters.
But we did in Salas in Albergue Valle de Nonaya. Socks etc along the window ledges and hanging on small lines outside the window. Then we had a storm later in the day!
 
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Cordes-sur-Ciel, France

January 2012



The French hiking route GR46 passes through Cordes-sur-Ciel, as it meanders sw towards Toulouse. After taking this view I ate in an upmarket resto wearing my camino winter garb and shell. When the owner's teenage daughter dubiously asked "Madame êtes-vous une pèlerine?" I nodded yes and togther we sat by the blazing fireplace to plot/plan her future camino. .
 
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Toulouse, France
Basilique Saint-Sernin

photo taken January 6, 2012



Toulouse, is located almost midway on the 800 km Via Tolosana/Voie d'Arles aka the French hiking route GR653 which connects Arles to the Col du Somport. This view of the Basilique Saint-Sernin was taken from the rue Saint-Bernard looking west towards the chevet, the exterior area behind the main altar.
 
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Basilique Saint-Sernin
la porte Miégeville, detail

photo taken January 6, 2012



This slightly salacious carving adorns
la porte Miégeville whuch was named after its location facing the center of the city, "mièjo vilo" in the local Occitan language.
 
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Bradypus said:
24 March 2018

Another example of a sign that didn't quite sit right for an English speaker. A clothes shop in Tokushima, Japan. Seen while walking the Shikoku 88 temple circuit. Who knew that special clothing was required?

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One of the coolest things to see is Japanese and Spanish cultures finding common ground over pilgrimage. When we saw a Basque flag in Tokyo, it was a very unusual and happy moment, and it was definitely tied to the Camino.
 
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La Charité-sur-Loire, France
Église Notre-Dame

photo taken January 2013



Located on a section of the Chemin de Saint Jacques sw of Vèzelay/east of Bourges the town, La Charité-sur-Loire, is named after a vast Cluniac monastery founded in 1059 and greatly destroyed during medieval wars and a 16th c. fire. This church was part of that monastery.
 
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Iglesia de San Andrés Apóstol
capital, detail

photo taken October 25, 2014



This Romanesque capital which depicts fighting knights is said to represent Charlemagne and a Navarrese prince. While regarding this chivalric image I remember the sincere camino caritas felt here many years ago.
 
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