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

The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
Get a spanish phone number with Airalo. eSim, so no physical SIM card. Easy to use app to add more funds if needed.
...and ship it to Santiago for storage. You pick it up once in Santiago. Service offered by Casa Ivar (we use DHL for transportation).
Ideal pocket guides for during & after your Camino. Each weighs only 1.4 oz (40g)!
Get a spanish phone number with Airalo. eSim, so no physical SIM card. Easy to use app to add more funds if needed.
Estaing, Via Podiensis May 2022

As Didier and I approached Estaing, we met an older woman who stopped us and asked if she could take a couple of photos of us. We asked why she wanted pictures of a couple of pilgrims she had never met before. She explained she was retired and visiting small towns by car. Her husband and her son were walking these stages of the Camino, but it would be too difficult for her. Her hobby is ink drawings and water colours, and so she would sketch different locations along the Camino as she waited for them. She showed us several of her sketches. They were very nice. Then she showed us one which had the Camino in it and explained that she wanted to create some drawings of the Camino with a couple of pilgrims, and that was why she wanted our picture.

As we were chatting with her she noticed my accent and discovered I am Canadian. She asked me what my impressions of France were, and "What is France" to me. I simply pointed at Didier and said “This is France. Didier is France to me!” And it is true. He was, and is, a great Camino companion, a good walker, and provided excellent colour commentary on everything that is France, especially the food!

A few weeks later, he received an email from her, with an ink sketch of Estaing ... but rats! we didn't make it into the drawing! 🤣

Estaing.webp Estaing 2.webp
 
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
€2,-/day will present your project to thousands of visitors each day. All interested in the Camino de Santiago.
Camino Frances
Boadilla del Camino

photo taken November 5, 2011

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Prominantly sited next to the church this handsome richly carved column, known as a Rollo, marks a 15th c. jurisdictional/territorial boundary.
How well I remember this, on the morning after our stay in the albergue there. It was an oasis, truly. €5 for the bed. Laundry by hand of course, I think there may have been sheets... the kidney shaped pool to dip into, and the bar, and the communal meal.. and the madre as well as the son, who seemingly is still very much in evidence. They also had, and I gather still do, a separate scale for private accommodation. Thanks for the reminder... then, the lovely church in Fromista...
 
Ideal pocket guides for during & after your Camino. Each weighs only 1.4 oz (40g)!
Perfect memento/gift in a presentation box. Engraving available, 25 character max.
Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-
Camino Frances
near Fromista
Canala de Castilla Esclusa cuádruple
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photo taken February 28, 2007

Canala de Castilla, 2007.webp

Constructed 1753 /1849 to transport wheat by barge, the Canala de Castilla was popular 1850 /1870 and declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1991.
 
A selection of Camino Jewellery
Camino Frances
near Fromista

photo taken November 13, 2012

near Fromista, 2012.webp

The Fromista locks marked the hypothetical mid-point of my 8th CF. After four weeks walking whilest always wearing a loaded pack (6.5 kilos) I was as fit as might be hoped at 73......All I needed then, as now, was continued luck, tenacity and endurance.
 
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.

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