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On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 11.0

Camino Frances
Atapuerca
sculpture

photo taken November 7, 2013



This contemporary sculpture symbolically represents a Neanderthal who nearly one million years ago inhabited the Sierra de Atapuerca.
 
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Camino Aragonés. August 30, 2023

Someone ahead of me either didn't notice, or didn't honour the request
Ice cold potable water (assured by a local woman passing by) from this lovely fuente next to the Iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora in Canfrac Pueblo.

 
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Camino Frances
Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria
west facade

photo taken November 8, 2013



Anyone wishing to worship/meditate may freely enter Burgos cathedral through the sw door beneath the pointed arch furthest to the right in this view. Within the vast complex free access is limited; a fee is charged to visit the cathedral/museum.
 
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Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria

photos taken February 24, 2007



A camera lens can isolate the Matamoros or Moor Slayer although the vast scene covers one wall of the Capilla de San Juan Bautista y Santiago visited as part of the cathedral museum.

 
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Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria

photo taken October 20, 2004



Within the cathedral museum is this mid 15th c. reliquary. Roughly 30cm. high, clad in vermeil/ gold plate on silver, Saint James wears a pilgrim hat complete with shell atop his precise curls. Sainthood is depicted by the flat halo behind his head. He grips his pilgrim staff and from one shoulder hangs a tiny traveling bag known as a scrip.
...I still fondly recall seeing this exquisite sculpture for the first time in 2004.
 
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Burgos
Cathedral de Santa Maria
interior detail

photo taken November 8, 2012



This small memento mori features a child/putto holding a skull. The themes of this infantile combo are not playfulness and childhood but life's fleetingness and the universality of death.
 
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Burgos
Plaza de la Libertad
Casa del Cordón

photo taken February 4, 2008



Heavy ropes/cords carved in stone which surround the main door give this 15th c. palace, presently used as a bank/exhibition space, its name. The charming French speaking hospitalera viewed here guided our rest day visit.
 
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Camino Frances. September 21, 2012

No room in the inns of Hornillos del Camino. The sports hall next to the Municiple Albergue was opened. There were a few cots and stacks of floor mattresses available. This is how the room looked when I arrived but soon, most of the floor area would be covered with mattresses and sleeping mats. There were 2 showers in the hall but we were also able to use the albergue showers. There was one restaurant open and we could reserve a time for seating. It was a good atmosphere - all grateful for a place to sleep and to have a meal. I noted in my journal "a restful sleep".

When I arrived in Hornillos this past September 18, 2023, I was amazed at how many more places there were to stay and eat. There wasn't a need to open the sports hall. Arriving early, I was able to stay at the wonderful municiple albergue and had time to explore the village in a way that I didn't in 2012.

 
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Camino Frances
west of Rabé de las Calzadas
rainbow

photo taken November 9, 2012



"..The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched."

Henry David Thoreau,
Walden, 1854
 
Camino Catalan. Twelveth stage. Montserrat - Igualada.
After Santa Cecilia, I left the official way that goes along the road, and I took the GR 172.
Although the path is very beautiful and well marked,

I do not recommend it if you carry a heavy backpack. You have to go up and down continuously and there are some rocky points,

Now, those who are in shape will enjoy it.
 
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Valcarlos alternate
east of Valcarlos

photo taken September 27, 2004



This sign was within a dense wood; however, the path was neither visible nor easy to find my first day walking on my first camino exactly
20 years ago today!
 
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Camino Frances
towards Hornillos del Camino

photo taken November 10, 2013

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The Meseta was bleak and cold with a wicked wind from the west on this late autumn day.
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There should be a designated thread for people to post their photo from that exact same spot. Iconic camino. Mine are all in sunshine!
 
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Rowena said:
Looking back at Castrojeriz from the rest stop at the top of Alto de Mostelares, 8:24 am, September 2015.
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Ditto. I waited for a couple of hours (for the weatherto clear) at the top to get this:

There is a single, much-eroded, perfectly horizontal bed of limestone stretching back all the way from the Alto to Tardajos. The blip of Castrojeriz Castle is built on it, and I'm standing on it. This vista is very special.
 
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Camino de Frances
near Castrojeriz
Convento de San Antón

photo taken November 11, 2013



Early morning beneath a clear pale blue windless sky the camino passed the great arch of the monastery.
 
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Bessuéjouls, on the Via Podiensis, May 2022

In the tiny village of Bessuéjouls, on the way to Estaing, we visited the church of Saint-Pierre-de-Bessuéjouls. There are sometimes little surprises waiting for visitors. At the rear of this church we came across a small wooden door, and beside it a sign that read “Accès chapelle aerienne" (Access to the aerial chapel, or, chapel in the sky). It is indeed a small and narrow passageway, with steep twisty stairs that I must duck and squeeze my 6'2" frame into, without my backpack! At the top we emerged into the small upper chapel with lots of what seemed like Celtic-inspired decorative detail on some of the column capitals. The stone altar itself was spread with notes and tokens of thanks and intercession.

 
Camino Frances
Castrojeriz
La Taberna resto/bar

photo taken November 11, 2012



"Hola Americana!" said the barista/owner as he prepared a pot of true hot chocolate with thick slices of cinnamon toast, my usual midmorning winter combo in his welcoming resto/bar.
 
Espalion, Via Podiensis, May 2022

One of the premier crafts that France is known for is knife-making. I have been wanting to buy a souvenir knife, and for days my Camino companion Didier has been telling me “Wait until we get to Espalion!” Well, when we arrived in Espalion, we found we had overshot our gite by 8 kms!! and we had to return to Saint-Come-d’Olt! It all worked out though ... we called the gite to explain, and the owner came to fetch us. In the morning, his wife had to go to Espalion anyway, so she drove us there around 8:30 am. There was a store in Espalion that sold knives, and it would be opening at 9:00. Soon enough the store opened and I bought a knife as a souvenir of my Via Podiensis. It took me a while to choose it, but eventually I settled on the knife below, with a handle made of pistachio wood. The maker is Laguiole, and their knives are collectors’ items.

A short while later, as we were walking along, Didier’s scallop shell fell from where it had been tied to his backpack, because it had finally worn through the piece of twine that was holding it on. We sometimes see pieces of nylon cord along farm fencing, so I suggested that next time we see some, that I could cut a piece with my new knife. “NO WAY!” says Didier! “When you christen that knife the first thing it is going to cut is cheese!” He was referring to a fondness for cheese that I have developed while on the Camino. It has become a running joke between us … or maybe I should have said a walking joke!


 
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6th of September 2024.
Botos. A rainy but short day.
Stayed at Taberna de Vento. The hostal is across the street of the restaurant.
A roundabout and not much else to see .
I could have stayed in busier Lalin but I actually do not mind quiet places like Botos.

 
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