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On the Camino: One Day at a Time, one Photo at a Time 9.0

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Would love to say i found it, but no. Prickly pear seem to be attached to succulents, and your photo does not seem to be so attached... but then, I used a very superficial search!
 
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FourSeasons,
If your photo is stored in Google Photos tap it with Google Lens and an answer should appear.
Good luck and happy research.
 
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FourSeasons,
If your photo is stored in Google Photos tap it with Google Lens and an answer should appear.
Good luck and happy research.
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You are brilliant!! I only have my photos on my iPhone but I swiped up on the photo and there is a leaf icon that says Look Up-Plant. So, I did and it's a species of plant Musk thistle.
Carduus nutans, with the common names musk thistle, noddling thistle and nodding plumeless thistle, is a biennial plant in the daisy and sunflower family Asteraceae. It is native to regions of Eurpoe and Asia.
It’s pretty but quite thistley. Now we know.
 
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Help me - how did you get the leaf Icon? Yesterday I tried not very hard to find an identifier but it was going to cost me money and I said no thanks... I have an iphone and an ipad - what trick do I not know? Thanks in advance.
 
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Help me - how did you get the leaf Icon? Yesterday I tried not very hard to find an identifier but it was going to cost me money and I said no thanks... I have an iphone and an ipad - what trick do I not know? Thanks in advance.
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Okay let’s see if I can help. I have iPhone 10. Go to your photos on your phone, select the photo as to open it on the screen. Once the photo is the only thing on the screen, put your finger on the photo then swipe up. I never knew this feature was there. If you don’t see it you may need to do an update. Let me know what you find.

Click on the Look up - plant to see results.
 
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My phone is an SE. So far, no luck, but I will try again another day, today will be full with this and that, and tomorrow, hopefully, flight without problems back home to Dublin.
 
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Bon voyage! Wheels up! Make sure it’s a picture of a plant, hence the leaf.
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I asked my phone (how sad is that?!) if I could access name that plant and instead found this one, plantsnap. Smashing! I will enjoy using it. Thanks for passing on the idea! Here is one from where I am at this moment:

And then I learned some more. They ask for money, or you can have 5 a day limit free!
 
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The hulking (now removed) monument at Monte do Gozo that commemorated the 1989 visit of Pope John Paul II. August 11, 2013

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Funny, when I walked to Santiago in October 2013, I never saw the monument however in 2019, it was bam, right there. I said to myself, how could I have missed this, it’s huge. So glad I got to spend some time on the “Hill of Joy”.

When I was there on August 15, 2019 it was roped off. Where did the move it to?
 
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Having finished the Ruta do Mar on the 1st of May, 2022 we stayed in Ferrol for 3 days before going on the Camino Inglés. We walked by the City Hall plaza and were delighted to sit and stay for a while because there was an international piano contest taking place and some participants came to play outdoors throughout the day!

I was so moved by this banner on the façade of City Hall with the names of all the people from Ferrol who were assassinated by the Franco's Nationalist forces.

 
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I'll be darn!! I learn something new every day!! This is fantastic, thank you, thank you!!!
 
I had to ask some locals for information when I saw this at the shipyard in Ferrol in May 2022 . This is what they told me: “The action was a protest by the workers objecting the elimination of positions by hanging the work clothes of those who actually lost their jobs. They were also protesting because the employees had not received their pay for 2 months, while the company claimed almost 5 million euros from the public shipyard.”

 
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Once the photo is the only thing on the screen, put your finger on the photo then swipe up.
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I tried it and found out that you don't have to put your finger on the photo and swipe. Just click on the ⓘ on the bottom and it'll take you to the same screen to get the plant information
Thank you so much for sharing this bit of helpful information. Now I don't really need the app I have for plant identification, I'll just take a photo
 
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Thank you too. This is great, who knew. Now we do. I almost bought an app, I’m glad I held out.
 
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August 10, 2001. My first camino. Mom came along.

Albergue dorm Roncesvalles pic FB.

However, sello is all mine.

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Oh the pleasure of memories! I stayed there in 2004 also on my 1st. Located on route N135 opposite the Casa Sabrina hotel and installed in a buttressed windowless barnlike space it boasted superb tiled state of the art showers/toilets in the newly excavated basement – a great example of architectural adaptive reuse!
 
Sept 3, 2013, I was so excited to stay in this albergue where many a head did lie. It definitely set the mood.
EDIT: I walked into Roncesvalles at 7:00pm (hobbled) and was fortunate enough to get one of the last bunks in this historical building. An evening/night I'll ever forget.

Do they still use this?
 
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Now it is used rarely for overflow.
 
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View attachment 120505Doors on the Camino Francés. I loved all those old wooden doors!
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My wife LOOOOVES the old doors. I dutifully provided her with daily pictures while walking Frances before we met in Santiago. Here are just some of them
 

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Wow?? First of all I can't believe how clean that sign is compared to August 2019.

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Secondly a big BUEN CAMINO to you. May the road rise up to meet you.
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June 25, 2022
 

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nycwalking said:
August 10, 2001. My first camino. Mom came along.

Albergue dorm Roncesvalles pic FB.

However, sello is all mine.

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Wonderful memories for me too! Thank you so much for posting it.

Here is my best effort - a bad photo of a photo, taken in the Roncesvalles albergue in 2001, with dear friends who started with me on that first Camino.

 
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May 2022 in Ferrol we visited the neighborhood of Canido to see some urban artistic renditions of Velázquez Las Meninas. There are paintings of all sizes, styles (some could be considered irreverent;-), and with all kinds of messages, throughout the streets of Canido. I took many pictures, and unfortunately I cannot share all of them, so here are a couple of mine and a link to some information about the route of Las Meninas - one of the things to see in Ferrol

Meninas de Canido 2023, así es la fiesta del arte urbano en Ferrol

Descubre cómo y dónde ver la Ruta de Las Meninas de Canido, arte urbano en Ferrol, donde en septiembre se celebra la Fiesta de las Meninas de Canido 2023
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Here is a link about to the original painting at the Prado Museum in Madrid:

Las Meninas - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado

This is one of Velázquez`s largest paintings and among those in which he made most effort to create a complex and credible composition that would convey a sense of life and reality while enclosing a dense network of meanings.
www.museodelprado.es

 
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Alto de Perdon

photo taken October 17, 2011



Atop the Alto de Perdon a young Austrian fellow kindly took this photo. Before the dreaded slippery scree descent he formally offered his arm as if we were to waltz at the famed Viennese New Year's ball. Thankfully I accepted, held tight and we sashayed down in step!
 
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@mspath as soon as I saw your photo it brought this one to mind on Camino del Norte in May 2018 when my friend posed alongside the sculpture
 
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In Ferrol May 2022, this is a photo of the Concatedral San Julián de Ferrol (Co-Cathedral of San Julián de Ferrol) which dates to the mid-late 1700's. Pope John XXIII on March 9, 1959, elevated the parish church of San Julián de Ferrol to the category of co-cathedral of the Mindoniense-Ferrolense diocese therefore establishing second place among all those of the bishopric.

 
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Muruzábal

photo taken October 18, 2011



Walking east from Muruzábal along the Calle la Cruz it was a suprise to see this ziggurat-like mound/mount in the field. How/when was it formed?
 
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Santa Maria de Eunate

photo taken October 18, 2011



A path towards paradise.

At Santa Maria de Eunate one senses the eternal peace of paradise. Set within a natural bowl this thousand year old church is timeless.

October 2011 four other pilgrims and I stayed in the then open albergue. At an evening prayer service within the mystic church we offered thanks for our caminos, our lives and our loves. All was transcendent.
...May peace reign here another thousand years.
 
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OMG - I nearly forgot I walked into Santiago after a very hard Camino three years ago today. I started in Irun on July 5. At Santander I switched to the CF to Fromista. I hurt my leg walking from Fromista to Sahagun (not in one stage ) I rested three days then took a train to Leon for an additional seven days rest. Finally on my way to Santiago with no other issues, thank God. It was an amazing, beautiful and all around challenging Camino. No more challenging than Camino's one and two just in a different way. I was so happy and overjoyed to see many familiar, welcoming faces at the plaza. It was full of pilgrims when I arrived, I've never seen so many at one time, in one place. Well maybe after Sarria
 
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Your shoes look too clean. Did you hover over the land?
 
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Your shoes look too clean. Did you hover over the land?
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While on rest in Leon I purchased the shoes you see in the picture in post #1053. I think maybe the shoes I used for del Norte were part of my leg issue. Not 100% sure, just a hunch. Maybe these were Camino magic shoes because there were a few times I felt like I was flying. Just as my license plate reveals.
 
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3rd of May, 2022 in Restaurante Marisquería O'Xantar in Ferrol, - a renowned seafood restaurant, we had an unforgettable gastronomical experience! Not only was the food and the wine perfect, but we also had the most professional waiter ever - Abel who was thrilled to select and suggest different dishes for us! It was a celebration for having finished the Ruta do Mar and Abel definitely made it memorable!

 
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del Norte to CF July 19, 2019. What a day! I walked from Liendo to the Laredo bus station, hopped on a bus to Santander, caught a train (which I almost missed) to Fromista. Ah, back on the Frances. I wasn't sure how crowded it would be so I booked a room. Upon arrival I found the albergue had plenty of beds. Oh well, I'll enjoy the upgrade. Planning an early morning departure due to high heat. Welcome home.
 
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Camino Frances
near Sansol

photo taken October 23, 2011

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I wonder when, why and by whom these stone cairns were carefully errected along the CF near Sansol.
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No idea as to specifics, but some pilgrims were already doing that in 2006, and no doubt before. I think of cairns and found this:

Conservationists Want You to Stop Building Rock Piles

Cairns have a long history and purpose, one that newer stacks sometimes subvert
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Welcome view of Roncesvalles from the road, the end of a long day from SJPP via Valcarlos, March 2015. It was not yet possible to walk on the path down from Ibaneta - there was way too much snow. When I got there, I was stunned by all the pilgrims. Where had they come from? It wasn't SJPP. Only later did I learn that many people start at Roncesvalles. This was before booking was possible and it was first come, first served. I felt lucky to get a bed.
 
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May 2022 we visited the Arsenal de Ferrol which is a military base and arsenal of the Spanish Navy and during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) it served as a concentration camp for Republican prisoners. Now it holds the Shipbuilding Museum and the Naval Museum - not to miss if you find yourself in Ferrol!

MILITARY ARSENAL - TURISMO DE FERROL

This post is also available in: Spanish Galician
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west of Ventosa

photo taken October 25, 2011



Late October west of Ventosa the sun was less brilliant and the clear sky was the pale blue of autumn/winter; a hat and gloves were needed while walking in the morning chill.
 
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Early morning coming down the hill towards Astorga Sep 18
Every stamp in my credencial is a memory much like my photos and the images are burned in and match up with Pilgrims I often wonder about
 

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San Juan de Ortega monastery

photo taken October 31, 2011



Within this splendid Gothic mausoleum San Juan de Ortega/ Saint John of the Nettles is buried. A follower of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, San Juan was, like him, a 12th c. builder of roads, bridges and hospices for pilgrims.
 
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I have posted this before a while back. After a wine laden menu del dia I asked these young ladies if I could take their photo. I feel it was one of my best portraits. Of note are the different expressions on their faces that all tell a story of what they were thinking on me. I was certainly not rude or forward towards them.
It was the colours of their clothing and their flamboyant demeanor that attracted me to them.
 
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