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

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In Porto 3 years ago, just before heading out on the Coastal Camino Portugués - we went across the river to Vila Nova de Gaia. While tasting the fine ports of the Taylor Fladgate Winery - established in 1692, and enjoying wonderful cheeses, we were regaled with the beauty of a strutting rooster and a majestic peacock. On the way back to cross the bridge to Oporto we came across this awesome street 3D art depiction of a rabbit:-)
 

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Cordes-sur-Ciel, France
photo taken January 2012

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Cordes-sur-Ciel is a fortified town in the Tarn département. The French GR46 hiking route passes through Cordes as it meanders sw towards Toulouse.

After shooting this view I enjoyed a delicious/expensive lunch in an upmarket resto, the only place open that cold day. I wore my camino winter garb including a shell. As I stood to leave the owner's teenage daughter rushed to my side asking if I were a pilgrim. I nodded yes and we two sat down by their blazing fireplace to plot/plan together her future camino .
 
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Several photos from 2016 along the solitary Camino Sanabrés. One of my very favorite albergues was the Albergue Casa Leiras in Dornelas. Cristina and Andrés from Italy fell in love with the area when they were walking this same path and decided to purchase the property back in 2008 and open an albergue. My stay there was memorable because I had the whole place to myself;-) and the highlight definitely was when they invited me to dinner in the main house with them and their lovely twin toddler daughters, they made me feel at home!
 

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Auxerre, France
Cathédrale Saint Etienne

photo taken November 28, 2008

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Walking here was cold in late November. I quickly visited the impressive 13-16th c. Cathédrale Saint Etienne; unfortunately the interior light was too dim to adequately see the famed stained glass.

Auxerre is a major stop on an historical walking route/ l'ancienne route d'Auxerre á Vézelay crossing Burgundian farmland/ vineyards southeast to the Abbey at Vézelay.
 
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near Châtel Censoir, France
les Rochers du Saussois

photo taken December 2, 2008

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It was lonely and cold as I passed these huge cliffs known as the Rochers du Saussois walking along l'ancienne route d'Auxerre á Vézelay/the old route from Auxerre to Vézelay via Mailly-le-Chateau. This historic route then followed the Nivernais canal to Châtel Censoir, a small village, which takes its name from Saint Censure or Censoire, 5th c. bishop of Auxerre.
 
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After two years of posting on this wonderful thread I can still find a photo, that with a little investigation, provides something interesting. I took this photo of a lintel, plaques and sculpture above a door in Villar de Mazarife on September 29, 2012. Today I discovered that this was the final studio and home of the Leonese artist / sculptor Luis López Casado, also known as Monseñor, who died in 2009. His home is now a museum.


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Me! 🤭 I have never been to Finisterre, and (horrors!) have no interest in going.

Yesterday the twisted steeple of a chapel in Jodoigne, on market day. Both very impressive.
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Sorry for my silly assumption! We went by bus, and there I found the most refreshing fountain of water on a curve in the inevitable hill up to the point zero marker. In the town afterwards we 'found' an Italian who had gone ahead in Atapuerca!
 
Vézelay, France
Basilique
photo taken December 4, 2008

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Vezelay Abbey and la colline eternelle have been a love of mine for fifty years or so; Romanesque, Gothic, and 19th c. intervention form timeless beauty. Eternal peace is combined with man-made perfection.
...Might this magnificent site endure for another thousand years.

In this photo I was entering the light of the ambulatory silently thankful to be there once again after walking from home.
 
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Galicia
sunrise, 2010

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Carpe diem!

May the glory of new morning light lift our spirits and give us hope of better times to come.

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

Marcus Aurelius,
The Emperor's Handbook, II,IV
 
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Hello to my Camino friends. Today is a great day! Today is Easter Sunday, and on Easter Sunday in 2019, while in the lovely town of O Cebreiro on the Camino Frances, I took one of the most memorable photos I have ever taken (see below). The experience and the symbolism were very moving. And that is not the only reason today is a great day! Later tonight I will board a plane for Porto, where the Camino Portuguese awaits! YES! I am returning, and … I am not returning alone! I am over the moon that my oldest granddaughter will accompany me! I am looking forward to sharing with her, and passing along the spirit of the Camino. Just a few days ago she wrote her last exam to finish her first year of university, and is very excited to be walking the Camino with her “Da”. I can’t think of a better way to contemplate one’s situation and future than with a Camino. And there is yet another reason why today is a great day … when I was walking the CF in 2019, I was with 2 other pilgrims that I met while walking. We have kept in touch since then. One of these good friends is the person who rushed over to me as I sat resting in O Cebreiro and urged me to “Come quickly to the church!” where I was able to take this fantastic Easter Morning picture. I have recently learned that he and his wife are currently walking the Camino del Norte and may arrive in Santiago around the same time as we will, on May 1st. Despite the fact that it is a little far off, and perhaps difficult to predict exactly when they, and we, will arrive in Santiago, pilgrims reading this forum know how these things work out. The timing is just right, and as is sometimes said, it’s just too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence! It is a happy day! Easter blessings to all!

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I don’t recall any slippery black rocks during this stage on Camino del Norte. 🤷🏻‍♀️
Found the stone, it's Negro marquina marble, quarried in the Markina region of the Basque country, I'm surprised you never noticed it underfoot as even very slippery when dry weather
 
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Found the stone, it's Negro marquina marble, quarried in the Markina region of the Basque country, I'm surprised you never noticed it underfoot as even very slippery when dry weather
Was this on the descent into Deba? We certainly remember what we would call cobblestones. It was very wet when we walked into Deba and quite treacherous underfoot on these stones. We walked it very slowly!
 
La Charité-sur-Loire, France
Église Notre-Dame
chevet

photo taken January 2013

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The town, La Charité-sur-Loire, is named after a vast Cluniac monastery founded in 1059 and partly destroyed during medieval wars and a 16th c. fire. This church was part of that monastery and is located on a section of the Chemin de Saint-Jacques between Vézelay and Bourges. In architecture a chevet is the exterior area behind the main altar of a church.
 
Was this on the descent into Deba? We certainly remember what we would call cobblestones. It was very wet when we walked into Deba and quite treacherous underfoot on these stones. We walked it very slowly!
I seem to remember there was a good few miles up and down, I was constantly slipping on them
 
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Another photo of the Monasterio de Santa Maria de Sobrado. A bit overgrown in places. CdelN, June, 2018.
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Set within the leafy summer splendor this is a great photo. Thanks for sharing/posting

By chance did you stay for Vespers and overnight? March 2007 I walked there from the CF at Azura. It was a most memorable visit.
 
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Set within the leafy summer splendor this is a great photo. Thanks for sharing/posting

By chance did you stay for Vespers and overnight? March 2007 I walked there from the CF at Azura. It was a most memorable visit.
Yes, we did and it was indeed a memorable experience. There was also a concert being held there the night we stayed with three choirs from different parts of Galicia, two adult ones and one children’s choir, it was wonderful. We also attended Vespers.
 
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Camino Frances
Redecilla del Camino.

photos taken October 16, 2004
and February 21, 2007

Two examples of the multitude of "hidden" treasures found along the camino.

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Within the Iglesia Nuestra Señora de La Calle the 12th c. baptismal font handsomely represents the towers/windows of Heavenly Jerusalem

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Facing the church on the calle Mayor, aka Camino Frances, a simple window is decorated with a 21st c. folkart cutout depicting Saint James as Matamoros

Although the baptimal font and the cutout span almost 1000 years both exhibit the intense desire of their craftsmen to espress an ideal.
 
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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.
Camino Frances
Redecilla del Camino.

photos taken October 16, 2004
and February 21, 2007

Two examples of the multitude of "hidden" treasures found along the camino.

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Within the Iglesia Nuestra Señora de La Calle the 12th c. baptismal font handsomely represents the towers/windows of Heavenly Jerusalem

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Facing the church on the calle Mayor, aka Camino Frances, a simple 21st c. window is decorated with a folkart cutout depicting Saint James as Matamoros

Although the baptimal font and the cutout span almost 1000 years both exhibit the intense desire of their craftsmen to espress an ideal.
That baptismal is incredibly beautiful. Wow!! 🤩 Thank you for sharing.
I have the same photo of the cutout of St James. Beautiful in its own right.
 
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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.
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This is a place to share memories and short reflections, one photo per day, one day at a time. Some of us will not make it to Spain this year, so this is our every day Camino fix. If you have been along for the ride since 1.0, you may find you need to repeat your posts,, but that is totally fine! We will see them with new eyes.

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My photo for the day is definitely a repeat, but it is one of my all-time favorite camino sights, from the Vasco just after Segura. Someone was so kind as to construct a chicken bridge for their hens, so they can get from their coop to happy hunting grounds in a grassy paddock across the stream. This hen was screeching, obviously not so comfortable with the crossing. As soon as she made it over, she stopped yelling.
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Thanks, you made my day ! i ll transfer it to my children who have a pair of cute and clever little hens !One of the great joys of the Camino i to observe humans , nature and the animals and all this little charming scenes!
 
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The amazing Hostal De San Marcos in Leon. Now a parador which i was lucky enough to stay in after i stopped walking at this point back in 2014 (if you share a room it can work out ok financially).
They have done some restoration works in recent years to the entrance/foyer which i am not sure i am a fan of, but nonetheless it is still a Renaissance tour de force.
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Camino Invierno
Las Médulas

photo taken November 26, 2014

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Near Ponferrada, off the CF but on the Camino Invierno, Las Médulas, a magnificent gold mine dating from Roman times, is marked by distinctive red-orange cones, channels, and caves. From a viewing platform I could look directly onto one huge cone of this UNESCO World Heritage site.
 
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On the way out of Ferrol, I met a Dignified Man coming the other way.

(it's José Canalejas y Méndez, a former Prime Minister of Spain and Ferrol alumni)

I too met this dignified man some years ago. I tried to make friends with him but didn’t quite succeed.
 

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!t is not too long since I posted this photo before. I wish I could remember the name of the albergue. It had a big room with bunk beds, and the owner, having walked a camino, designed the bunks with enough height so nobody needed to crouch. Thankfully I had a bottom bunk! Belorado, 2006.
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near Campanas, Spain
photo taken January 22, 2008

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Following neither the CF nor the CA while bypassing the Alto de Perdon these two fellow pilgrims worried that we three might be lost; in fact I was trying to find us a resto. Eventually I did in nearby Campanas.
 
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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.
Camino Frances
Villalcazar de Sirga
Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca

photo taken November 6, 2011

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Sacred, eternal beauty endures
within the dimly lit masive and austere
12th-14th c. fortress-church, Santa María la Blanca, originally built by/for the Knights Templar and later a royal Marian sanctuary .
 
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Quick! Grab the bunk next to it! (I've been in that one...)

Today, a Spanish-looking 13th C Madonna. But it's in Holland. In the magnificent Sint Jans Cathedral, Den Bosch - the start of our walk down the pelgrimspad to Vessem and the Via Monastica.
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