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

[DoughnutANZ]

Santo Domingo de Silos

 

[kaesler]

Leaving Portomarin at dawn, 2022-10-20.

 

[davejsy]

Day 3 - Orisson inbound!

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Portos

photo taken December 4, 2013



Set within a frosty garden this giant insectile sculpture marks the entrance of the A Paso de Forimiga albergue located on the CF in Portos east of Palas de Rei.

 

[FourSeasons]

Camino Frances - July 27, 2019
Leon Cathedral at dusk.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Somewhere between A Fonsagrada and O Cadavo, Camino Primitivo, 22nd July 2022.
There were a lot of these out and about this morning, probably because it was a bit damp and misty for most of the morning.

 

[kaesler]

Water fountain beyond Triacastela, 2022-10-18.

 

[SabsP]

A non Camino holiday in Extremadura 2016. Caceres. The Camino is never far away.
Glad I did not had to walk. It was a brutal 37 degrees Celsius late August.

 

[VNwalking]

Santo Domingo de Silos

A most remarkable place.

 

[WildPlace]

Camino Frances, Hospital de Orbigo, 10th October 2013. A good day, met some good friends that day who i'm still in touch with.

 

[davejsy]

Day 4 - which carried on as magical as the Orisson sunrise!

 

[Rowena]

March 26, 2022 Camino Frances, Puente la Reina
Ceiling detail in the Iglesia de Santiago

 

[Anne&Pat]

An hour and a half after leaving O Cadavo on our way to Lugo just before 8am, 23rd July 2022. Camino Primitivo.

 

[FourSeasons]

Camino Frances - September 3, 2013
Downward towards Roncesvillas.
Here come the ladies. I was really surprised at first, then tickled.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Vilaspesa

photo taken March 17, 2009



During a warm mid-March day I admired this folkart sign on route to Palas de Rei

 

[VNwalking]

Chosen at random...

Since this hermitage in Grañon was built in the 1500s, it's become surrounded by 'town sprawl.'
A plaque explains what is of interest:

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Pilgrim statue leaving Obanos, Camino Frances.

I was walking with a group of lovely nurses from Northern California that day and one of the group was struggling a bit. We played a slightly mean trick on her after we asked her if she had noticed the statue. When she said "no" we told her that she had to walk through it as a "true pilgrim" and so she had to walk back and find it.

She was about to dejectedly walk back when we explained that it was all a joke . I think that she got it

 

[markie6]

fwiw I have always walked thru

 

[SabsP]

My picture of Obanos in 2011.
The first time I saw a fronton for pelota.
No games going on that day but in 2019 during the Camino Vasco Interior I was able to attend some.
The Basques surely know their sports!

Basque pelota - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

See here for an overview of other local sports.

Basque rural sports - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There is a regional TV channel that seems only to broadcast these games. Never thought I was so interested in a competition of woodsawing!

 

[davejsy]

Day 5. Lunch stops in Zubiri enroute to Larrasoaña. And of course lunch had to be followed by a little swim!

 

[kaesler]

Looking back in a golden dawn just after leaving Grañon, 2922-9-25.

 

[Rowena]

September 21, 2015 Camino Frances
Between Villamayor de Monjardin and Los Arcos

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
east of Palas del Rei

photo taken December 4, 2012



Just east of Palas del Rei the pathway vegetation appeared especially lush for early December.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Walking the city walls of Lugo on our rest day! Camino Primitivo. 24th July 2022.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

Camino Frances, Hospital de Orbigo, 10th October 2013. A good day, met some good friends that day who i'm still in touch with.

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The guy on the bike needs to shed a lot of kilograms!

 

[WildPlace]

The guy on the bike needs to shed a lot of kilograms!

Haha that’s a pretty good load he’s carrying - looks as loaded up as me when i go solo cycle touring with all my camping gear

 

[SabsP]

Bar Ansotegui. La Puebla de Arganzon. Camino Vasco Interior 2019.
How I like to spend my afternoons in quiet towns on a Camino.
Drinking a beer or coffee, reading a local paper and observing daily life.
The bar also has a small tienda seeing there is only a pharmacy and a bakery / breakfastplace in La Puebla.
For pintxos we went to the other bar ( Bar Plaza ) in the evening.
Detail of a scarf that I was once bought in Santiago de Compostela and now always travels with me when walking a Camino.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

My bar photo, Rabé de las Calzadas.

 

[markie6]

Sept '22 Checked in to the Municipal in Hornillos after walking from Atapuerca. Quietly watching fellow pilgrims trudge through. While there I noticed a gentleman and his wife, the man looked like an actor who while pilgrim- like had a voice that confirmed to me who he was (Kyle Chandler) we exchanged pleasantries and chatted a bit about him looking like a famous actor and perhaps he could get some double work and where he was from. A lovely couple.

 

[kaesler]

A little downhill from Cruz de Ferro early morning, 2022-10-13

 

[davejsy]

Day 6 - Pamplona and I met the first people I'd seen doing the Camino with their dog. For me this was quite an emotional moment because I was walking the Camino in memory of my dog Flora, and after bidding them farewell the first real tears of my Camino fell. Luckily there was a beautiful green area just by the river after here where I sat and pulled myself back together! The dog was called Friar - and I hope they made their journey safely and happily with beautiful memories to last forever

 

[Peregrinopaul]

Haha that’s a pretty good load he’s carrying - looks as loaded up as me when i go solo cycle touring with all my camping gear

I met this guy on the Voie d'Arles. I thought he was on a motor cycle at first.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

The avenue between S Anton and Castrjeriz

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
west of Palas de Rei

photo taken November 24, 2010



This tired marker and pair of worn out boots seem symbolic of camino exhaustion.

 

[VNwalking]

Somewhere in Navarre.
Wheat. Sky. Poppies.

 

[Theatregal]

September 1, 2023. Camino Aragonés.
View of Santa Cruz de la Serós, nearing the bottom of the trail from the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Ponte Ferreira, Camino Primitivo, 25th July 2022. A Roman bridge.

 

[MARSKA]

October 26, 2023 Camino Frances
The street outside Albergue Ultreia in Portomarin, washed clean by 24 hours of heavy rain!

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Rowena- we were there in Portomarin the same day! And we both stayed at Ulteria! But I didnt have the pleasure of meeting you....

 

[Takahiwai]

Sept '22 Checked in to the Municipal in Hornillos after walking from Atapuerca. Quietly watching fellow pilgrims trudge through. While there I noticed a gentleman and his wife, the man looked like an actor who while pilgrim- like had a voice that confirmed to me who he was (Kyle Chandler) we exchanged pleasantries and chatted a bit about him looking like a famous actor and perhaps he could get some double work and where he was from. A lovely couple.

I used to lend a hand in the kitchen at Casa Manolo during school holidays. Thanks for the happy memories that photo brings!

 

[FourSeasons]

Sept '22 Checked in to the Municipal in Hornillos after walking from Atapuerca. Quietly watching fellow pilgrims trudge through. While there I noticed a gentleman and his wife, the man looked like an actor who while pilgrim- like had a voice that confirmed to me who he was (Kyle Chandler) we exchanged pleasantries and chatted a bit about him looking like a famous actor and perhaps he could get some double work and where he was from. A lovely couple.

Do you mean this guy?? He was on the Camino?

I met him when I worked in Hollywood. Here we are at the rap party for Homefront. Early 1990’s.

 

[SabsP]

Ermita de San Juan. Between Salvatierra and Vitoria. Camino Vasco Interior 2019.

 

[markie6]

Do you mean this guy?? He was on the Camino?
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I met him when I worked in Hollywood. Here we are at the rap party for Homefront.

Yep. Nice chap. Municipal Hornillos Sept '22

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Camino Frances
west of Palas de Rei

photo taken November 24, 2010

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This tired marker and pair of worn out boots seem symbolic of camino exhaustion.

Ditto with one shoe. Near Villabilla de Burgos.

 

[FourSeasons]

Camino Frances - April 21, 2016
Villamayor de Monjardin

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Another one a little further down the road, in the field.

 

[markie6]

Not sure I approve of the all the new age littering ... at least the good people at the Parochial at Zabaldika gave theirs a new use

 

[Rowena]

Rowena- we were there in Portomarin the same day! And we both stayed at Ulteria! But I didnt have the pleasure of meeting you....

What a shame we didn’t meet that day, or at another point on the way to Santiago. We could have commiserated with each other about the weather!

 

[Rowena]

September 24, 2015 Camino Frances
More boots on a marker, between Azofra and Cirueña

 

[kaesler]

Viana

 

[davejsy]

Day 7 - any guesses?! By far one of my favourite days on the Camino.

 

[SabsP]

Day 7 - any guesses?! By far one of my favourite days on the Camino.
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Could be Torres del Rio.

 

[MARSKA]

@Rowena yes the weather was .... well ... awful!

 

[davejsy]

Could be Torres del Rio.

Eunate

 

[Kirkie]

I do not recall where, but it was photo number 185

 

[Josep Montserrat]

Eunate

I knew it


And his Virgin

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances

Casanova
horreo/granary

photo taken December 5, 2013



After Palas del Rei the CF passes through many small hamlets which have granaries such as this in Casanova.

 

[Anne&Pat]

26th, July 2022, Ferreira to Melide, Camino Primitivo.

 

[VNwalking]

Camino Ingles, 2018
(Unfortunately the imprisoned Virgen cannot read the inscription from her cage, because she could use a miracle.)

 

[kaesler]

Viana. 2022-9-21.

 

[markie6]

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I do not recall where, but it was photo number 185

Between the Park outside Logrono and Navarette

 

[Peregrinopaul]

Between the Park outside Logrono and Navarette

I think the fence separates the track from the autovia at the pass above Logroño.

 

[Theatregal]

View from my bed in the wonderful Albergue La Bohème in Santa Catalina de Somoza. Camino Frances. September 29, 2023

 

[Kirkie]

@markie6 and @Peregrinopaul thanks. I remember some locations vividly, but others, I retain the sensation without the location. That fence spoke to me of genuine copycat efforts at expressing an element of pilgrimage.

 

[davejsy]

Day 8 - leaving Puenta de la Reina

 

[SabsP]

The rooster from Barcelos. Camino Portugues 2015.

Rooster of Barcelos - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Legend of the Cockerel of Barcelos | www.visitportugal.com

The medieval stone cross that can be seen in the Archeological Museum of the town is related to the legend of the Cockerel of BarcelosAccording to the legend, the inhabitants of Barcelos were very disturbed by a crime who’s author had not been discovered. One day a man from Galicia, who was...

www.visitportugal.com

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
O Coto

November 24, 2010



One cold day I wearily stopped for a second breakfast in the patio of Casa de Los Somoza a rather chic, but friendly, casa rural. A small van of tourists arrived and a few hyper-tidy ‘Sunday pilgrims’ with new walking sticks exited in order to sample the trail! Spotting my pack and shell they politely asked “How long have you been walking?” “48 days!” I answered. Stunned they dashed to the bar and never moved on....

 

[Theatregal]

Afternoon tea at Refugio Gaucelmo. Rabanal del Camino. Camino Frances. September 30, 2023

 

[FourSeasons]

Camino Frances - July 20, 2019
Leaving Fromista in the dark to beat the heat. I took the alternate route to the right. It didn’t take long before I witnessed this.

 

[kaesler]

Looking back at the sun rising over El Burgo Ranero, 2022-10-7.

 

[SabsP]

Somewhere on the Portugues. 2015.

 

[davejsy]

Day 9 - somewhere after Estella I bumped in a French couple with a dog, and of course had to ask them in my broken French/Spanish about their dog, which I heard was called Cypian. It was brief, but I left them happy with a spring of happiness in my step unlike what had happened when I saw Friar the dog in Pamplona. 48 hours on the Camino had already started to help me.


I didn't see them again for several days, and little could I have had any notion when I bid them farewell that day that we would eventually walk into Santiago together as what they call a Camino family having spent the final two weeks together.

Turns out the dogs name was actually Sepia and they weren't a couple. They had started their pilgrimages in Saint Servan and Poitiers in France. I became very attached to Sepia and most people assumed she was mine!

 

[Rowena]

March 23, 2022 Camino Frances
Early morning shadows just past Espinal, and a beautiful day just beginning. The day before I had taken the afternoon bus from Pamplona to Roncesvalles, then walked as far as Espinal, where I spent the first night of this Camino.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Entering Arzua for the second time this year, this time on the Camino Primitivo, 27th July 2022.

We had previously passed here on the 21st June 2022 at the end of the Camino Frances.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Torres del Rio

photo taken February 14, 2007



I crossed this pathway in Torres del Rio on Saint Valentine's night during my third camino. I loved walking the camino then and continue to love those memories now.
...Happy Valentine's Day!

 

[FourSeasons]

Camino Frances - August 10, 2019
Leaving Sarria - I found mspath’s trees.

 

[VNwalking]

Leaving Sarria - I found mspath’s trees.

I love how we often have photos of the same places.

 

[markie6]

I love how we often have photos of the same places.
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yeah ! similar views catch our eyes ( posts 124,122 ) I am sure the tree I took a photo of was just before the others. I also like how we see our photos again when others have taken them in different seasons

 

[markie6]

Sept 19 2022 Day 15 Oncina to Astorga

Sunrise on the Paramo, worth looking backwards for

 

[kaesler]

The Camino passes right through the ruins of the San Anton monastery just short of Castojeriz. 2022-9-30.

 

[SabsP]

Detail of my credencial 2011. Camino Francés.

 

[Theatregal]

Ponferrada. Camino Frances October 3, 2023

 

[Rowena]

March 24, 2022 Camino Frances
First photo of the day, setting out from Larrasoaña.

 

[davejsy]

Day/night 10 - Navarette with the moon shining through the municiple Albergue as we drifted off to sleep. A night of loud snoring and lessons in tolerance.

 

[SabsP]

Day/night 10 - Navarette with the moon shining through the municiple Albergue as we drifted off to sleep. A night of loud snoring and lessons in tolerance.
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But an open window!

 

[davejsy]

But an open window!

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Leboreiro
cabazo

photo taken November 30, 2011



In the small village of Leboreiro, east of Melide this typical cabazo, a granary in the form of gigantic basket, is used to preserve corn.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I just chanced upon this picture this evening. I've definitely posted this here before but since it is still Valentine's Day here at home for a few hours more I'm popping in again to this thread to repost. Burgos Cathedral.

 

[FourSeasons]

Camino Frances - April 23, 2016
Leaving Logrono - Rio Somero
Reflections.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Santa Irene, before O Pedrouzo, Camino Frances.
28th July 2022.

 

[kaesler]

Entering Castrojeriz, 2022-9-30.

 

[Theatregal]

Three today because, well... it was a beautiful place to stay! Albergue de Peregrinos San Javier, Astorga. Camino Frances, September 28, 2023

 

[markie6]

2019 Last day heading from Arzua to Santiago...

 

[Kirkie]

Three today because, well... it was a beautiful place to stay! Albergue de Peregrinos San Javier, Astorga. Camino Frances, September 28, 2023

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Oh yes, it was! One of the treats was a little footbath in the yard...a lovely place indeed.

 

[davejsy]

Day 11 - leaving Naverette I remember the Camino ended up right next to a motorway, which for me was thoroughly depressing, it was a reminder of the craziness that I was trying to escape. I took the earliest opportunity to detour away from it and stumbled across the beautiful Ventosa, and this beautifully humbling tribute on the way into the village. I've included the Google lens translation.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Walking into Santiago de Compostela on the last day of the Camino Primitivo, 29th July 2022.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

On arrival at Santiago de Compostela, 20th July 2019.

 

[mspath]

Camino Frances
Melide

photo taken March 24, 2006



This effective marker is at the junction of the rue principal/travesia principal, a pedestrian passage which leads to rua San Antonio where the Melide municipal albergue is located.

 

[FourSeasons]

Camino Frances - August 3, 2019
Hospital de Orbigo - Near the bridge.
Jackpot! 1,2,3,4,5 no, 6 storks lucky.

 

[markie6]

Fromista Canal Sept '19

I didn't get wet ...others wouldn't have been so lucky

 

[kaesler]

Skinny apartment building beside the train tracks in the western suburbs of León 2022-10-9.