On the Camino: One Day at a Time, One Photo at a Time (Part 2)

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Emulating @SabineP and @VNwalking here is a view out a door of an albergue.



The hospitalera at the Albergue do Sol e da Lua in Finisterra had a very friendly shaggy dog that was sent out for a haircut. He came back looking like a different dog. The hospitalera was ecstatic and had to get a picture. And so did I, of the moment. I didn't have time to get to the door so I grabbed the shot through a mirror.

And, if I can be excused for doubling my picture quota for today, here is what the albergue entrance looks like normally.

 

[KinkyOne]

Misty morning in Miranda de Ebro (Via de Bayona, 2016)

 

[Madidi]

10th May 2015:

Camino Madrid. Thistles amongst the verge plants. This was on the way between Zamarramala and Los Huertos.

 

[Theatregal]

Albergue O Rueiro in Vilaserio

 

[AlanSykes]

Mediaeval fortified bridge over the Rio Varosa at Ucanha on the Camino Torres.

 

[David Tallan]

Pontecesures, Spain on the Camino Portugues.

 

[SabsP]

Plaza de la Constitucion in Santa Olalla de Bureba. Camino Vasco Interior in 2019.
One of those sleepy villages. Only 50 inhabitants. Very well kept place. The bar was open but I did not go in ( now that was a first on this Camino seeing there are so few bars left in this region ). Befriended the old dog that was lying outside .

Santa Olalla de Bureba - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JohnLloyd]

Crossing the border from Valença and Portugal into Tui and Spain, I recall that the time shown on my phone changed at least half a dozen times (it was early May).

Living on a border with different time zones must present the locals with some issues.

What time are we meeting? 6/7 or 7/8?

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 18th, May, 2018 Walked from Comillas to Unquera this day and this photo is approaching San Vicente de la Barquera, mid morning. We bumped into a Canadian pilgrim from Thunder Bay, who we had met at Albergue Piedad in Boo de Pielagos, at the bus station in this town, where we stopped for a drink and rest stop. He was finished his Camino and was waiting for a bus to start his journey home. It was a great reunion.

 

[KinkyOne]

Really? House in Ameyugo, the last village before Pancorbo (Via de Bayona, 2016)

 

[Madidi]

12th May 2014:

Early morning on the Camino Ingles. Leaving Sigueiro for Santiago on the last day of our walk.

 

[Theatregal]

St Jean Pied de Port. The blissful day before I started walking that first camino - wandering, exploring, the excitement of the unknown in the days ahead. Feeling very alive!

 

[VNwalking]

Really? House in Ameyugo, the last village before Pancorbo (Via de Bayona, 2016)

Yeah, it was something, alright.
I posted a closer photo of it that doesn't convey its impact the way yours does.

Today's pic is somewhere between Rodeiro and Lalin on the Invierno, looking back at Monte Faro

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Finisterre

 

[VNwalking]

Finisterre

Am I the only one reactive about the sight of perfectly good shoes being thrown away? I hope that's not happening and that they will go to new feet instead.

 

[SabsP]

Am I the only one reactive about the sight of perfectly good shoes being thrown away? I hope that's not happening and that they will go to new feet instead.

Hopefully it is a donativo box...? For some pilgrims whom walk from Fnisterre back eastwards?

 

[Albertagirl]

Hopefully it is a donativo box...? For some pilgrims whom walk from Fnisterre back eastwards?

I don't know what the intention is for these shoes, but I was relieved that they had not been set on fire on the beach of Finisterre.

 

[AlanSykes]

The dour castle at Chinchilla de Montearagón, where Caesare Borgia was an unwilling guest for a time. Near one of the joins between the Caminos de Levante and del Sureste, Albacete province.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Am I the only one reactive about the sight of perfectly good shoes being thrown away? I hope that's not happening and that they will go to new feet instead.

It has been five years and my memory is hazy but I think the bin only had shoes in it so they were probably recycled in some manner.

 

[David Tallan]

Just past the bridge over the Rio Ulla, heading on towards Padrón. Camino Portugues.

 

[David61]

17th October 2017:

Camino Frances. Smokey path near Ferreiros on the way to Portomarin.

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I walked there just over a year ago with plans to do it again about now. What a change a year makes. Time is a crucible as they say

 

[JohnLloyd]

Leaving Tui

 

[VNwalking]

A small rack railway to bring the grapes up the very steep terraces on the West side of the Rio Miño above Belesar. Wine grapes have been cultivated here in the Ribeira Sacra since Roman times.

Looking back to the other side of the river, the Camino Invierno emerges from behind the pines at the top of the terraces and goes steeply downhill from left to right, in the middle distance just above the end of the rack.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Near the CF's 100 km marker.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 19th, May, 2018 Between Unquera and Pendueles, we walked into Asturias and these are two examples of the many Los Indianos houses to be found in Colombres. In the late 19thC many people from the north coast of Spain emigrated to the Americas, during a period of great poverty. Many left but only a few became rich, when they returned they built very large manor houses and acquired large estates. There are many examples of these houses still left, especially in Asturias.

 

[VNwalking]

Los Indianos

I was told to look out for palm trees, which were often planted near of people who had come back from the Americas. You can see them in Pais Vasco, too.

 

[KinkyOne]

Desfiladero (gap) de Pancorbo - view back in the direction of Miranda de Ebro. Just enough place for RR, N-1 highway, Rio Oroncillo and Via de Bayona (2016). More recent autopista AP-1 is going through tunnels to the right of the gap.

 

[Botaivica]

something that fascinated me about the Camin are the roofs.

even when they emerge like this from a wheat field

otherwise, I am an engineer and such things delight me professionally

 

[Madidi]

7th Sept 2012:

Camino Frances. I stopped for a drink at the Albergue Amanecer in Villarmentero de Campos and spotted 'Bob' on the wall there. As my first grandson was christened Marley for the singer, I had to snap this for him.
I'm not sure what all those other scribbles mean though!!

 

[VNwalking]

Desfiladero (gap) de Pancorbo - view back in the direction of Miranda de Ebro. Just enough place for RR, N-1 highway, Rio Oroncillo and Via de Bayona

It was pretty amazing how many threads they could put through the eye of the needle. The most astonishing thing is that it didn't feel like all that was happening so close together and so close at hand.

 

[Theatregal]

The door to...? Somewhere after Cirauqui...I think. This image is in my "out of order" photo file

 

[SabsP]

San Pelayo de Buscas. Camino Ingles 2018.

 

[David Tallan]

Monument to Cela in Padrón. Camino Portugues. I wonder what they are trying to say about him.

 

[AlanSykes]

The Sierra de Guadarrama from the Camino de Madrid

 

[Anne&Pat]

I was told to look out for palm trees, which were often planted near of people who had come back from the Americas. You can see them in Pais Vasco, too.

Exactly. Here is our third photo from the same day of another house in Colombres.

 

[JohnLloyd]

The lovely Roman bridge (Ponte Romana Orbelle) outside Tui

 

[VNwalking]

Warm light on a grey day in the Roman mine at Las Medulas. The chestnut trees were in new leaf and the broom was providing its aroma to the golden ambience. An environmental disaster 2000 years ago has been transformed by time and nature into something lovely. I left with an odd kind of cynical hope - we humans make trouble. But if we stop, healing happens.

 

[Madidi]

23rd September 2013:

Volunteering in the Pilgrims Office. A scene of peace and quiet before the pilgrims start appearing up the stairs to receive their compostelas. I think over 30,000 arrived that month

 

[KinkyOne]

Didn't expect to see these three so far up north (Pancorbo, Via de Bayona, 2016)

 

[SabsP]

River Oria. In between Beasain and Zegama. Camino Vasco Interior.

 

[Theatregal]

View from my room. Sunset in Lugo.

 

[AlanSykes]

The shadow of the Puente Nuevo at Ronda. Via Serranía, October 2017.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte-20th, May, 2018 Leaving Pendueles for a glorious walk along the coastal path to Llanes. A warm, sunny day. The Picos de Europa in the distance to the south west.

 

[Madidi]

10th May 2015:

Camino Madrid. Shadows walking alongside fields of corn on the way to Santa María la Real de Nieva in the early morning sunshine

 

[VNwalking]

The shadow of the Puente Nuevo at Ronda. Via Serranía, October 2017.

Alan...Not that I want you to stop, mind, but every one of your photos makes me want to walk that camino.
The latest is...not sure what word fits, other than 'Wow.". Ronda is already photogenic, but you did something different.

Menhirs overlooking the way as it comes into Cirauqui. No-one seems to pay much attention as they walk by, but I come from a place where 1843 is 'old,' so this kind of thing makes an impression.

 

[JohnLloyd]

The other Portico de Gloria, on the way to Porriño

 

[SabsP]

On the way from Villares de Orbigo to Astorga.

 

[KinkyOne]

On the stage from Pancorbo to Briviesca (Via de Bayona, 2016) I didn't take the right turn because I misunderstood one (sloppy painted) and missed the second (overgrown) arrow so I just kept on walking. The general direction was what it supposed to be and I did add some mileage because I returned back to solve the "mystery". But I discovered this very beautiful and quiet valley due to my mistake. It was worth it...

 

[Theatregal]

@VNwalking - A September view of the Menirs before Cirauqui. I was reminded of it after seeing yours. I have so many photos of things and places along that first camino, that I didn't understand until I came home and started to research. My mind was changed after that as to the value of researching a place a bit before I went I haven't found anything about these however. I'll check out the Prehistory resource thread you posted today!

 

[AlanSykes]

The Chemin de la Mâture on the Col des Moines variant of the Chemin d'Arles. Over a km long, 2-3 metres wide, cut out of a sheer cliff to extract tree trunks to make masts ("mâtures") for Louis XV's navy.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 22nd, May, 2018 Ribadesella

 

[JohnLloyd]

Just gorgeous.

 

[Botaivica]

I didn't know why they put water bottles next to the door.

Perhaps an old tradition will offer water to pilgrims?

Someone knows more about this?

 

[SabsP]

I didn't know why they put water bottles next to the door.

Perhaps an old tradition will offer water to pilgrims?

Someone knows more about this?

Here you go.See this earlier thread.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/whats-with-the-bottles-of-water.27805/

 

[SabsP]

Basilica de la Virgen del Camino. Camino Frances.

Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Camino - La Virgen del Camino (León)

Sitio web de la Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Camino - La Virgen del Camino (León)

virgendelcamino.dominicos.es

 

[VNwalking]

Just gorgeous.

And muddy.

Basilica de la Virgen del Camino. Camino Frances.

And on the inside (photos below)~
I'm not a modernist, at all. To me older is better. So I did not expect to be as touched here as I was. But it was one of 'those' churches...the kind you don't forget, and go back to.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 17th, September, 2014 La Virgen Del Camino Church of San Froilan, we turned of just after this to head to Villar de Mazarife. We met Gordy & Tracey from the USA with their 6 year old daughter walking the Camino outside this church. We also stayed in the same Albergue, Tio Pepe that evening and had a very good communal meal.View attachment 77951

Basilica de la Virgen del Camino. Camino Frances.

Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Camino - La Virgen del Camino (León)

Sitio web de la Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Camino - La Virgen del Camino (León)

virgendelcamino.dominicos.es

Snap, SabineP !

 

[SabsP]

Oops so sorry @Anne&Pat . Missed it completely.

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Here you go.See this earlier thread.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/whats-with-the-bottles-of-water.27805/

Best April Fool's Day jokes:

"In 1989 New Zealand gardening guru Eion Scarrow told a radio station that a bottle of water would stop dogs using your front yard as a toilet, and people have followed it ever since. Scarrow told TVNZ last year that he can't remember the inspiration for his prank."

''I don't know how I even thought about it; it was just spur of the moment. We had vets ringing up from England".

Stuff

i.stuff.co.nz

 

[KinkyOne]

Colors, colors..., for me such a sight is so beautiful that it is almost painful (approaching Briviesca, Via de Bayona, 2016)

 

[Theatregal]

Interior of Ermita de San Miguel Arcángel between Villatuerta and Estella

ERMITA DE SAN MIGUEL ARCÁNGEL - Villatuerta

- En este enlace tienes información completa sobre los monumentos de Villatuerta. A algo más de medio kilómetro de Villatuerta, siguiendo e...

arte-historia-curiosidades.blogspot.com

 

[Madidi]

16th October 2015:

Had just finished walking into Santiago from Fisterra and Muxia when I joined a tour of the cathedral roof: wow, a whole different outlook from up there

Torre da Trindade:

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 23rd, May, 2018 Between Ribadesella and Colunga. The coastal trail leading into La Espasa, where we saw hundreds of primary schoolchildren at the playpark & beach for a school breakup. There was also a handy restaurant/cafe for some lunch.

 

[C clearly]

Surreal talc quarry between La Peza and Quéntar on the Mozarabe.

 

[SabsP]

Armiñon on the Via de Bayona.

Armiñón - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

es.wikipedia.org

 

[JohnLloyd]

The 100km marker on the Portugués is slightly less impressive than the 100km marker on the Francés.

 

[VNwalking]

Armiñon on the Via de Bayona.

A lovely place, with a lovely bridge.

Somewhere between Hornillos and Hontanas. It's a profoundly simple landscape, just earth and sky - but the wind ruffling the wheat and the intense color of it all were mesmerizing.

 

[KinkyOne]

Falling into decay...

(Castil de Peones, Via de Bayona, 2016)

 

[Madidi]

11th October 2015:

View of the Miradoiro do Corpiño above Muxia on a dull evening just before a storm passed through.

 

[Theatregal]

The Roman tanks for fish salting at A Praia dos Pescadores de Angeiras.

 

[David Tallan]

Another from Padrón on the Camino Portugues.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

The shadow of the Puente Nuevo at Ronda. Via Serranía, October 2017.

Ronda is what got us to Spain for the first time in 1988. I wanted to visit the antipode to Auckland where I had spent some time. I purposely didn't lookup anything about it. What a fantastic place! The Romans would take vacations there. A few years ago we went to NZ and so Peg is an antipoder now too.

 

[JohnLloyd]

Recycling

 

[Madidi]

28th August 2012:

First morning on the Camino Frances. Looking back across the Pyrenees from Orisson.

 

[VNwalking]

CF 2014. La Faba lit up in the early morning - I had missed the track through the forest and was on the road.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte- 24th, May,2018 Villaviciosa Town Hall, Asturias. Note the palm trees.

 

[KinkyOne]

True, true...

(Quintanavides, Via de Bayona, 2016)

 

[VNwalking]

K1 - Snap!
(I almost posted mine of the same thing yesterday, but had second thoughts.)

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Fog found from Finisterra to Muxia. It was about 11:30. Peg said to not worry, it will be clear at 12:00. It was.

 

[David Tallan]

A penultimate post from Padrón. At the top of the hill overlooking the town where, legend has it, St. James did his preaching in Iberia before heading back to his martyrdom.

 

[Theatregal]

Peeking into a barn in Bon Xesús on the way to Finisterre.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

I finally managed to upload the fog picture. It worked on my eight try. Don't bother trying to upload a picture unless most of the posting tool icons are highlighted.

 

[Madidi]

7th May 2015:

Camino Madrid. Castillo Manzanares el Real. a palace-fortress erected in the 15th century. It houses a wonderful collection of tapestries and one of the biggest beds I have ever seen

 

[SabsP]

By far my favourite pintxo. At Bispo / Santiago de Compostela.

 

[Botaivica]

Casa porta de Santiago, last stop before Santiago, best dinner, T - bone steak 🍽 and the first and last time on CF I drank a whole bottle of wine tinto

Please understand that I had to put two photos

 

[JohnLloyd]

Need a new shell?

 

[VNwalking]

Early morning near the foot of Alto de Mostileres.
Anywhere you cared to look - in front, behind, or to the side - was glorious.
Sorry, I will also break the rules. But I made them, so.....
And. I can say with complete confidence that the halo over the shadow's head in the first photo has nothing to do with saintliness.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino del Norte-25th, May, 2018 Somewhere, mid-morning, between Villaviciosa and Deva, before Gijon. Probably after Nievares on the way to Peon. Dave, in Cicerone's, The Northern Caminos, describes this as a long ascent to the Alto de la Cruz before descending the other side!

 

[Madidi]

30th Aug 2016:

Camino Primitivo. Cute water tap on the way between Grado and Cornellana

 

[KinkyOne]

This is one funny fountain. It's clearly dedicated to pilgrims and the plaque says "fuente del peregrino/fountain of the pilgrim/source de pelerin" BUT... Although I'm no shorty (1,80m/5.9f) I had a lot of trouble to stretch my body so much that I was able to finally reach the faucet and fill up my bottle. Would really like to know if any of the constructors/builders tried it

(Quintanavides, Via de Bayona, 2016)

 

[KinkyOne]

What a coincidence. Me and @Madidi posted fountains at almost the same moment. Not the same faucet though

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

On the way to Finisterra, one of the many hórreos in Olveiroa. They must have had a giraffe problem at some time.

 

[Theatregal]

Incredibly delicious Portuguese cod dish - Bacalhau com Natas made by Jose at Pension Casa Velha in Perefita. He was very proud of his menu and sent me off the next morning with a collection of his recipes

 

[Botaivica]

This is one funny fountain. It's clearly dedicated to pilgrims and the plaque says "fuente del peregrino/fountain of the pilgrim/source de pelerin" BUT... Although I'm no shorty (1,80m/5.9f) I had a lot of trouble to stretch my body so much that I was able to finally reach the faucet and fill up my bottle. Would really like to know if any of the constructors/builders tried it

(Quintanavides, Via de Bayona, 2016)

K1, that fountain is for those who ride horses. while the horse drinks they pour their bottle

 

[David Tallan]

For my final post from Padrón what better to end with than a plate of pimientos?

 

[KinkyOne]

For my final post from Padrón what better to end with than a plate of pimientos?
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Where's the yumyum emoticon???

 

[TrvlDad1]

All this local food is exacerbating my longings!

 

[SabsP]

On the Frances in 2011 but I don't know the location anymore.
I 'm sure many of you can help me out...

 

[KinkyOne]

All this local food is exacerbating my longings!

I'm almost sure that's in Ezequiel in Melide. Is it? If it is that's exactly the table and position I sat when I was there in 2011

 

[KinkyOne]

On the Frances in 2011 but I don't know the location anymore.
I 'm sure many of you can help me out...

Just after leaving Graňon (different time of year though)