On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 4.0.

[Deleted member 43985]

I appreciate that but isn’t having a story behind the pictures a part of this thread? The media it’s only pictures. I like reading and telling stories and seeing the picture/pictures that inspired the words. Don’t you?

Very much but, respectfully, the person who started the thread did name it ‘one day at a time, one photo at a time’. We are all here because we enjoy sharing and seeing/hearing others stories and I truly do look forward each day to another story from all contributors. I suspect this is going to last quite some time until the world is vaccinated so I am in no hurry to share all my photos or stories. Just my two cents worth...

 

[Canada Wanders]

Portugal

 

[Canada Wanders]

Spain

 

[FourSeasons]

Very much but, respectfully, the person who started the thread did name it ‘one day at a time, one photo at a time’. We are all here because we enjoy sharing and seeing/hearing others stories and I truly do look forward each day to another story from all contributors. I suspect this is going to last quite some time until the world is vaccinated so I am in no hurry to share all my photos or stories. Just my two cents worth...

Thanks for your two cents, I’m in no hurry either. I was just over zealous I suppose when I found a place where those who contribute really understand what a Camino means. Or perhaps inspire those who don’t.

 

[Deleted member 43985]

Thanks for your two cents, I’m in no hurry either. I was just over zealous I suppose when I found a place where those who contribute really understand what a Camino means. Or perhaps inspire those who don’t.

Your contributions will most certainly not only understood but valued! We are a special group because of the parts that make us up!

 

[Theatregal]

Hi @FourSeasons
This link to the original post in the original thread might help you to understand the context for this wonderful thread started by @VNwalking at the beginning of May last year.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/one-day-at-a-time-one-photo-at-a-time.67514/

There are members who post regularly and a member new to the thread ( which is so wonderful! ) may not understand the original intention. The thread gets very long quickly, so to make it more easily accessible, it has been closed and re-started 4 times already!

It's true that sometimes one of us will "sneak in" another photo or two but in the past it's usually been because the extra image directly references the first photo and helps fill out the story or caption. Or at least that's why I have a few times In general though most keep to the "one-day-at-a-time-one-photo-at-a-time" intention.

I really hope you'll continue to post - you have already posted some beautiful photos!

 

[Anne&Pat]

Caminho Portugues- May, 2016 Iglesia de Santiago, Padron. Exquisite chandeliers! With an image of Santiago Matamoros in the glass case in the Church. Two photos today .

 

[VNwalking]

Don’t you?

Yes! Absolutely. And yours are wonderful.

At the same time, one photo can tell a very big story — that's part of the fun. Edit: Thanks, @Theatregal , for describing the context that I was too lazy to dig up.

As the thread title says, One Day at a Time, One Photo at a Time. It's true, people occasionally post two or three, but not as a regular thing.

 

[Canada Wanders]

Whoops

 

[VNwalking]

Sabine spoke about the albergue at Beasain on the Vasco, and here is Luis signing us in. The albergue was so special, in no small part because of he and his wife, who offered the most wonderful hospitality. I always love the signing in process, with the ritual of getting the stamp in your credential.

 

[SabsP]

Pancorbo to Briviesca. Camino Vasco Interior 2019.

 

[JohnLloyd]

All I'll say here is that this is @VNwalking's thread, so it seems appropriate to follow it in the spirit in which it was set up.

Other threads with different formats are also available.

 

[JohnLloyd]

Leaving Viana at dawn and remembering to look behind me.

Always a good idea.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I saw this guy run straight towards a bull that was charging him and then, in the nick of time, jump over the bull lengthwise.

Edit: Okay, it was a young bull but still ...

 

[Former member 49149]

 

[Theatregal]

Looking back at San Claudio on the Invierno. A fine morning.

 

[Deleted member 43985]

Cordero in Pamplona at Cafe Irun is probably my most anticipated meal on the Frances... Thank you, Papa!

 

[FourSeasons]

Day 3, leaving San Sebastián on del Norte July 7, 2019. I caught the lighthouse light as it twirled around. I surely wasn’t ready for the humidity whew!!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Nearing Combarro on the Portuguese Spiritual Variant in May 2019. I loved walking underneath the vineyards formed as canopies overhead.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Caminho Portugues- May, 2016 Padron to Santiago, our last day! We were delighted to see black swans in the Alameda Park as we entered Santiago. A reminder of Australia on our last day! But also sad to be finished this Camino. We had a great days walk, walking with a Dutch couple for most of the way, whom we had met in Caldas de Reis, a few days before.

 

[SabsP]

After Monasterio de Rodilla to la Brujula. Camino Vasco Interior 2019.

 

[JohnLloyd]

Remembering to look back was one thing.

Remembering to look down was just as important, in order not to interrupt local industry.

I recall being intrigued by the two separate species of ant that seemed to live alongside each other in peace - one larger than British ants, and one a little smaller.

Are there more than two species of ant in Spain?

 

[Former member 49149]

title: arriving, Sto Domingo

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

A friend vacations by taking equestrian tours so I took a fair number of horse pictures to keep her interested in our camino slide show.

Due to possible lightening we didn't walk the Napoleon so we missed the horses up there.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Anyone know if these adorable types of short horses are pets or raised for pet food?

 

[Former member 49149]

Perhaps... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_pony, but doubt if raised for pet food...

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Perhaps... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_pony, but doubt if raised for pet food...

Thank you, Kirkie!

Edit...well I'd heard a rumor on the camino. How was I to know.

 

[Theatregal]

Are there more than two species of ant in Spain?

Your question prompted me to check - yes, definitely more than two species

Antweb

www.antweb.org

This one was busy dragging a frond across a path at Las Medulas.

 

[Former member 49149]

Thank you, Kirkie!

Edit...well I'd heard a rumor on the camino. How was I to know.

 

[Former member 49149]

Thank you, Kirkie!

Edit...well I'd heard a rumor on the camino. How was I to know.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Santiago de Compostela- 27th, May, 2016 Statue outside the Convent and Church of San Francisco.

Then the same but on 3rd, October, 2014 at the end of our first Camino, when we received a Sancti Francisci Conventus Compostelae, because 2014 was the 800th Anniversry of St Francis of Assisi's pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

Similar photo but different days and years! Only took two inside photos in 2018, will post them tomorrow.

 

[Canada Wanders]

 

[Canada Wanders]

 

[Deleted member 43985]

Made a new friend during an overnight at the Peaceable Kingdom in Moratinos.

 

[SabsP]

Igreja on the Camino Portugues in 2015.
Unfortunately I forgot to write down the name.
I hope @Anne&Pat can once again help me out...

 

[JohnLloyd]

After a week on the Camino, the concept of "roads for cars" was becoming increasingly surreal.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Anyone know if these adorable types of short horses are pets or raised for pet food?
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Grrrr

 

[Former member 49149]

Heading for Cirauqui, back view of a gentle Italian. We lost him leaving Atapuerca, and rediscovered half of him in Finisterra! The other half of him had disappeared along the camino.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

At a small picnic area. The electrical cord went up to the trees and then over a road to a nearby house.

 

[Theatregal]

In the first photo, the left window at the end of the long row of small white framed windows is Room #420 on the pilgrim floor of the Hospederia San Martin Pinario in Santiago. If you stay in this room, the second photo shows your bird's eye view of the Igrexa de San Francisco. Please don't stay there when I'm planning to

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

If you stay in this room, the second photo shows your bird's eye view of the Igrexa de San Francisco.

You're right up there with the angels @Theatregal .

 

[Theatregal]

You're right up there with the angels @Theatregal .

It is pretty wonderful to see those angels so closely!

 

[NYSE]

Afternoon on an almost empty plaza and terrace in Betanzos. Camino Ingles.View attachment 90355

Continuing our wonderful sharing on a new thread. (Haha, please don't feel shy to post here again today even if you already posted in the other thread! And don't worry about repeating yourself — none of us are the same people we were 6 months ago nor do we have the same eyes.)

Today's choice is inspired by @JohnLloyd's shadowplay yesterday:
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Time for a break.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Igreja on the Camino Portugues in 2015.
Unfortunately I forgot to write down the name.
I hope @Anne&Pat can once again help me out...

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Sorry, I don't think we can help this time. Have had a look through our photos and do not recognise this church. Have you any idea where it is near? You walked from Porto? Did you walk the interior route or coastal route? We walked the interior way through Vilarinho, Barcelos, Ponte de Lima, Rubiaes and Tui, then onto Santiago through Pontevedra.

 

[SabsP]

Sorry, I don't think we can help this time. Have had a look through our photos and do not recognise this church. Have you any idea where it is near? You walked from Porto? Did you walk the interior route or coastal route? We walked the interior way through Vilarinho, Barcelos, Ponte de Lima, Rubiaes and Tui, then onto Santiago through Pontevedra.

No worries. It was the interior. Certainly after Vila do Conde and before Ponte de Lima. Mental note to self : write more down when walking!
Cheers for the help!

EDIT : It actaully might be in Ponte de Lima self afterall if I look at the order of all my pics.

Yes ! The main church ! https://www.feriasemportugal.com/igreja-matriz-de-ponte-de-lima

 

[Anne&Pat]

No worries. It was the interior. Certainly after Vila do Conde and before Ponte de Lima. Mental note to self : write more down when walking!
Cheers for the help!

EDIT : It actaully might be in Ponte de Lima self afterall if I look at the order of all my pics.

Yes ! The main church ! https://www.feriasemportugal.com/igreja-matriz-de-ponte-de-lima

You are right! We do have a photo of it but from a different angle!!

 

[JohnLloyd]

You are right! We do have a photo of it but from a different angle!!
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I went for the bull's eye view.

 

[Anne&Pat]

As promised yesterday, two photos from the Church of San Francisco, Santiago de Compostela in June, 2018 at the end of our Camino del Norte or you could also say at the start of our Camino Finisterre/Muxia!

 

[FourSeasons]

@Anne&Pat how lovely. I was there on May 4, 2016. At first I grumbled at the fact they moved the pilgrims office. You know, tradition. However it made me explore places I hadn’t been before and The Church of San Francisco was a real treat. Reading the names of the Saints made memories rush over me of my Southern California life. A truly beautiful place, SoCal and the church

 

[SabsP]

Evening in Santiago de Compostela.

 

[JohnLloyd]

Signs of progress.

 

[Former member 49149]

I am doing an irreversible cleaning of my laptop. Before I do, here is a photo that might elicit matching feelings of delight, elation, incredulity...
Normally, I prefer images without myself but this one cannot be edited!
June 23rd, 2006. Location does not need to be spelled out...I am on left. The naysayers are invisible, although I am looking at them!!!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Not a great pic but I haven't submitted enough goat pictures.

 

[FourSeasons]

I am doing an irreversible cleaning of my laptop. Before I do, here is a photo that might elicit matching feelings of delight, elation, incredulity...
Normally, I prefer images without myself but this one cannot be edited!
June 23rd, 2006. Location does not need to be spelled out...I am on left. The naysayers are invisible, although I am looking at them!!!
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Cute, really cute! Say nay to the naysayers peregrina!

 

[VNwalking]

The naysayers are invisible, although I am looking at them!!!

Lookit that triumphant smile!
Love it. What in the world could naysayers possibly say that could argue with that?

 

[Theatregal]

Crossing under the railway viaduct just before the Taboada Bridge on the Sanabrés.

 

[FourSeasons]

Another glorious sunrise leaving Roncesvillas April 17, 2016. Always look back even if to see how far you’ve come.

 

[FourSeasons]

Crossing under the railway viaduct just before the Taboada Bridge on the Sanabrés.

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Please tell me more about this Sanabres you speak of. So beautiful

 

[SabsP]

Please tell me more about this Sanabres you speak of. So beautiful

Until @Theatregal returns here you can take a look at these links of the Sanabrès. On my every growing Camino list.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/forums/via-de-la-plata-sanabres.22/

On the Via de la Plata basically after Granja de Moruela there is a split. One route goes to Astorga and then continues on the Francès , other Camino goes via Puebla de Sanabria via Ourense to SdC : the Sanabrès route.

Vía de la Plata | Camino de Santiago | Gronze.com

La Vía de la Plata (o Camino de la Plata) es el más importante Camino de Santiago desde el sur peninsular. Hoy en día se considera Sevilla como la ciudad de inicio, y el itinerario tiene su origen en distintas calzadas romanas que en el medievo aprovecharon los peregrinos. Se caracteriza por las...

www.gronze.com

 

[Theatregal]

Please tell me more about this Sanabres you speak of. So beautiful

The Camino Sanabrés is a lovely camino! Reading through the links above that @SabineP posted will give you a good overview of the route! There are options for a starting point. The Gronze guide in particular gives a good overview of all the options for this route.

 

[Deleted member 43985]

For me, there isn’t a more serene time of the day than the morning’s golden hour. This wheat looked so alluring...

 

[Anne&Pat]

Santiago de Compostela, May, 2016. The Cathedrals Holy Door was open then.

 

[FourSeasons]

Santiago de Compostela, May, 2016. The Cathedrals Holy Door was open then.
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Yes, I walked through it May 2016. Very moving. God willing I’ll walk through it again 2022.

 

[JohnLloyd]

More than a week into my Camino, and this was the first monument I'd seen to female peregrinos.

The Other Half

On leaving Logroño this morning, I saw for the first time an official representation of the female experience of walking the Camino, in the form of a dramatic statue by the city gates. This was wel…

johnelsewhere.blog

 

[SabsP]

Visit of the rooftop of the cathedral. Santiago de Compostela.
Taken from yet another angle.
I can really recommend the guided tour.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

More than a week into my Camino, and this was the first monument I'd seen to female peregrinos.

There are a few up here John.

 

[JohnLloyd]

There are a few up here John.
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Good point, well made.

But in my defence, the Alto de Perdón sculptures are somewhat androgynous!

 

[Deleted member 43985]

More morning light... Funny, though, it looks warm but this photo was taken when the temp hovered just above 0C/32F. Hearty plants

 

[VNwalking]

The remarkable cloister at Santo Domingo de Silos on the Lana.

 

[David Tallan]

Having taken a break from this thread, I thought I'd return with a few of the photos from my 1989 Camino. This one was taken where I started the Camino, in Roncesvalles.

 

[FourSeasons]

Ah yes, morning glory. Crisp morning glory and daddy long legs. Hahaha. Who has a picture of their stretched out legs? Leaving Roncesvillas April 2016.

 

[Former member 49149]

Belorado. The owner, a pilgrim, designed the bunks after hitting his head too many times... top bunks were rather high!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

The Abbaye de Marcilhac, on the Cele Valley variant of the Le Puy route in France. It reached its peak in the 12th century. (June 2018)

 

[Theatregal]

On the left, the Iglesia Señora da Agualada and in the middle, one of the hamlet's 81 residents. At the time I didn't know the name of the church - there wasn't any info, but spent some time looking at the inscriptions and carvings on the exterior. I came across this photo in my files this morning as I was choosing a photo today. Did a bit of research online. Historically, it's an important place on the camino.

AGUALADA DE MARANTES, SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

GALICIA

galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com

Adjudica el Consorcio la rehabilitación de Nosa Señora das Angustias, en Marantes

ARQUITECTURA El Consorcio acaba de adjudicar la obra de mantenimiento de la ermita de Nosa Señora das Angustias, en Agualada, Marantes, por un importe...

www.elcorreogallego.es

 

[FourSeasons]

The Abbaye de Marcilhac, on the Cele Valley variant of the Le Puy route in France. It reached its peak in the 12th century. (June 2018)
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Wow, if walls could talk.

 

[FourSeasons]

On the left, the Iglesia Señora da Agualada and in the middle, one of the hamlet's 81 residents. At the time I didn't know the name of the church - there wasn't any info, but spent some time looking at the inscriptions and carvings on the exterior. I came across this photo in my files this morning as I was choosing a photo today. Did a bit of research online. Historically, it's an important place on the camino.

AGUALADA DE MARANTES, SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

GALICIA

galiciapuebloapueblo.blogspot.com

Adjudica el Consorcio la rehabilitación de Nosa Señora das Angustias, en Marantes

ARQUITECTURA El Consorcio acaba de adjudicar la obra de mantenimiento de la ermita de Nosa Señora das Angustias, en Agualada, Marantes, por un importe...

www.elcorreogallego.es

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Amazing and the little elderly lady, oh so precious. I marveled how the elderly would dress up and walk near or far to make the mass. Love it!

 

[SabsP]

Quiet path next to the small river Oria. Almost in Zegama. Camino Vasco Interior 2019.

 

[FourSeasons]

del Norte: San Sebastián to Zaruatz only to find it completo. I had no choice but to push on another 5 kilometers with the first k or was it 3, on what seemed to be a never ending climb to Getaria. It was a hard day but the beauty surpassed the pain. July 7, 2019

 

[JohnLloyd]

What's that coming over the mountain?

 

[VNwalking]

Dawn, somewhere after Mazarife, a few minutes too early for shadows.
The straightest darn road ever.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- August, 2014 Roncesvalles here we come! We have gone back to the Frances for some more photo inspirations!! Just hope we don't post to many photos that we have already posted!!

 

[Former member 49149]

Santo Domingo

 

[Anne&Pat]

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Santo Domingo

What memories that photo evokes. We remember standing in the queue waiting to get in on a very hot day and making camino friends with the other folks in the queue. We actually had dinner with a young man from England that evening who was standing behind us, who had run 50 kms that day, with a tiny backpack!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I think I'll do a horse series, an O Ceibrero horse series, shorter than my tractor series.

I was seriously thinking about taking the alternate way up O Ceibrero, meaning going up by horse. I guess I wanted to do as much by foot as possible though. At any rate seeing these horses somewhere before the climb made me very conflicted.

This is one of my luckiest shots ever. Believe it or not, the only editing done was cropping.

 

[David Tallan]

The Puente in Puente la Reina. March 1989

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Your photo is lovely, Rick!
Here is the only one I have of the horses. They were already at the top.

 

[Theatregal]

View from the Alameda, August 2014

 

[Deleted member 43985]

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What's that coming over the mountain?

Pretty sure that would be a load of BS

 

[danielle aird]

Can anyone guess what and where this is. It's from the Camino...

 

[David Tallan]

Can anyone guess what and where this is. It's from the Camino...View attachment 91236

City of Culture?

 

[danielle aird]

City of Culture?

You got it ! I didn't think it would be found that quickly. I was so happy to capture that shot. I didn't know at the time what it was. Great architecture. I wonder if it's being used...

 

[Tulle]

I was in Santiago on July 25 in the Holy Year of 1999. What an experience! On the picture we are waiting for the opening of the Holy Door.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- August, 2014 Puente de la Rabia, Zubiri from our albergue.

 

[SabsP]

Betanzos. Such a charming town. Camino Inglès.

 

[VNwalking]

A shepherd and his flock, on the outskirts of Santiago of all places. Invierno, 2019.
(The only photo of sheep that I have.)

 

[FourSeasons]

The never ending steps going down and down and down after Markina on del Norte
July 12, 2019. Whew

 

[JohnLloyd]

The never ending steps going down and down and down after Markina on del Norte
July 12, 2019. Whew
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I remember reading somewhere that you gain 8km of height on the Francés route from St-Jean to Santiago, only to give it all back along the way.

The Camino is a metaphor for life - lots of ups and downs.

 

[JohnLloyd]

In Navarrete, checking out the Church of the Assumption, and once again wondering about the contrast between the opulence inside some churches, and the economic marginality outside.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

O Ceibrero horses, part 2 of 3

On the way up we saw a horse coming down, riderless and alone. I had enough time to get the camera out and get this picture.

One picture wasn't enough. Another could be better. I pressed the shutter button and waited for the click and I got the picture that was most memorable.

Spoiler

Man, that camera was s_l_o_w. And, less than a second after the camera's click, I was pushed off the trail.

That picture is hiding under the spoiler button.

 

[David Tallan]

Church of Santiago (detail), Puente la Reina. March, 1989