On this date in June...

[Juspassinthru]

June 22 2018, walking from Asturias into Galicia. View attachment 77351

Pure German sass if ever I’ve seen it

 

[Peregrinopaul]

... but the sand in the hour-glass is running out.

That expresses so well the bitter-sweet part of the arrival-in-Santiago experience. Loved your post.

 

[Katja Siri Nidhan]

Pure German sass if ever I’ve seen it

 

[Former member 49149]

In 2006 this was a Friday and it was my first day walking, starting in Roncesvalles. Thanks for this thread. It is a lovely oasis of memories.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

In 2006 this was a Friday and it was my first day walking, starting in Roncesvalles. Thanks for this thread. It is a lovely oasis of memories.

Where's the picture @kirke?

 

[Former member 49149]

Where's the picture @kirke?

I wish I knew. It is on one of various thumb drives hiding in a drawer. I needed to free up space on my laptop, and thereby hangs a tale. Post one of yours for me!

 

[Peregrinopaul]

Here’s a story about this day in 2015.
I had already completed my Camino Frances on June 15th and I flew from Santiago to visit my brother, a retired sea captain, in the Algarve Portugal. After a few days there, I embarked on a quest on behalf of a friend in my home town in Australia. She is called Paquita, named after her grandmother, who was born in southern Spain, the daughter of a mining engineer working in the mines of the pyrite belt, north of Huelva, in the Rio Tinto region. His name was Guillaume Delprat, a Dutchman, and he spent several years managing mines at Tharsis, San Telmo and Cabeza Del Pasto among others. He subsequently had a stellar career in Australia where he was the general manager of BHP for many years, and was responsible for the expansion and diversification of that company into steel. (The smelting operation in Newcastle NSW was his crowning achievement). His daughter Paquita came to Australia as a young child, and subsequently married a young geologist called Douglas Mawson, of Antarctic exploration fame, (not to mention the $100 note).
I visited and photographed the old mines, and found their original house in Tharsis. At Cabeza del Pasto, the manager's house was in ruins, the mine having been abandoned 50 years ago.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

Post one of yours for me!

OK

 

[VNwalking]

I'll channel @kirkie, too, but I'm a few months early for June....

 

[Peregrinopaul]

I'll channel @kirkie, too, but I'm a few months early for June....

A bit puzzling, VN. More info please.

 

[Former member 49149]

A bit puzzling, VN. More info please.

Let me guess, when @VNwalking was there, it was a few months earlier than June...

 

[VNwalking]

A bit puzzling, VN. More info please

Let me guess, when @VNwalking was there, it was a few months earlier than June...

Exactly, @kirkie. Those photos were taken in early March.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

Exactly, @kirkie. Those photos were taken in early March.

This might be dumb, but I don't recognise the church!

 

[VNwalking]

There are two.
I'm not entirely sure but think the first is Akerreta (just after Larrasoaña). The second and third photos are of Zabaldika.

 

[Theatregal]

June 23, 2019. Arrival in Santiago for Noche de San Juan. Such a fun evening of community, music, grilled sardines and bonfires.

 

[Former member 49149]

There are two.
I'm not entirely sure but think the first is Akerreta (just after Larrasoaña). The second and third photos are of Zabaldika.

Thanks for details. I found the photos did not open, but now you say where they are, of course! Don't I know it like the back of my hand!

 

[Madidi]

23 June 2019:

Alan, my Australian buddy and I were on duty in the Pilgrims Office. Some of the staff were organising themselves for the 'Hogueras de San Juan' festival taking place that evening on Rua Dos Pelamios close to the Parque de Vista Alegre. They very kindly invited the volunteers in the Office to join them: we readily accepted. We had a fantastic evening: music on a grand scale, free grilled sardines for everyone, lots of other food and beverages from an outdoor bar. At midnight the bonfire was lit to traditional music provided by pipers and drummers. It was a wonderful night in the company of open, friendly people. I hope they are all well tonight.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

VdlP 2012 The Feast of St John a little more muted in Zamora

VdlP 2015 Camino aborted at Plasencia, after recieving news of my elder brother's critical illness in Portugal. Darryl and I swore to return. We were booked to do so in 2018 but he died before our planned departure.
Reverse Frances 2018 I return to the pilgrim office in St Jean for my sello.

2019 Chemin de St Jacques, Voie du Littoral, Hourtin France. The trail is better than the road!

 

[Peregrinopaul]

"i before e except after c"!

 

[Juspassinthru]

June 26, 2017: Special day on my next to last day on my 2017 Camino. I started out early in the morning for the lighthouse in Finisterre feeling very alone, all but one of my Texas friends were gone and most of my Camino family had been dispersed by the winds. Along the way I met a woman who’s become my friend, my sister and my spiritual guide. When people asked why I walked the Camino I often said I did not know. I now believe it was to meet my German friend, my Arhat and discover that even a Humanist like me can be spiritual being. For that, I will always be in her debt. I will always be her meddling American brother.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

2012 Church of Santiago in a clearing in the woods at Terroso (Sanabres)

2014 My son and I relaxing in the garden of Albergue Unamuno, Leon.

 

[Mycroft]

Here's a thread to post pictures, musings, etc. from any date in June from any year when you were on the Camino.

Last year I started on the Camino del Salvador from León, after walking on the Francés from SJPDP.
Looking at the map I thought that I'd find a place to eat breakfast on the outskirts of León, but didn't find anywhere to stop for hours. Fortunately I had a large pack of Peanut M&Ms.

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Not an actual Camino, but on this day in 1876 was the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where I a pilgrimage.

 

[Katja Siri Nidhan]

June 26, 2017: Special day on my next to last day on my 2017 Camino. I started out early in the morning for the lighthouse in Finisterre feeling very alone, all but one of my Texas friends were gone and most of my Camino family had been dispersed by the winds. Along the way I met a woman who’s become my friend, my sister and my spiritual guide. When people asked why I walked the Camino I often said I did not know. I now believe it was to meet my German friend, my Arhat and discover that even a Humanist like me can be spiritual being. For that, I will always be in her debt. I will always be her meddling American brother.

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Thank you, MMAB, I'm so happy we met. YGS

 

[trecile]

Last year on June 26th I began walking from Santiago to Finisterre. I think that the best view of the Cathedral is from this direction

 

[Madidi]

26 June 2019

When volunteering in the Pilgrims Office, one of the perks is that you are provided with accommodation. Last year my room was in the 'Convento de Santa Clara de Santiago de Compostela' on Rua de San Roque. The window offered an excellent view across the rooftops to the cathedral.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

2012 I have company at the albergue in Lubian.
before the climb to La Canda which is getting crowded now because the AVE now goes this way too.
... a heavy load for mountain country, but I was younger then!
2014. I'm about to become stronger on the descent from Cruz de Ferro

2018 Heading north on the Atlatic coast of France
2019 My AirBnB in Rochefort...the boat in the foreground - cheap too.

Louis XIV's naval ropeworks at Rochefort.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

28 June 2012 Near Portocamba on the Sanabres

2014 The climb towards O Cebreiro

 

[Camino Chrissy]

This was our 30th and final day on the Le Puy route in 2018. I ended in Auvillar, listed as one of Frances "100 most beautiful villages". The circular shelter is the very old "market place" in the main town square where thy gathered to buy and sell.

 

[Madidi]

28th June 2019

This was a rest day for me from the Pilgrims Office and I decided to take a walk along the Rio Sarela. It's hard to believe that a five or six minute stroll from the cathedral leads you literally into the city outskirts. The walk will ultimately take you to the Costa do Cano bridge where it meets the Camino Fisterra. A beautiful walk on a beautiful day

 

[Juspassinthru]

June 28-29, 2017:

At this point, I'm sure you're growing bored but for the few who are still hanging on. Today, I left Santiago, I had no idea if I'd ever return (I have). My route back to Dallas first took me to A Coruña where I'd hoped to spend a couple relaxing days on the beach. My friend Paul and his sister Becky had sent pictures of a giant beach party under sunny skies. Well, the storm that moved in yesterday as we walked down from the lighthouse is still hanging around. When my train arrived in A Coruña, it was gray with a driving rain and pretty darn cool on the beach. The weather matched my mood. Gray and gloomy and now, totally removed from my friends and Camino Family. Blah!





I did though walk to the Tower of Hercules which I highly recommend. I was staying at a nice hotel (sheets, hot water, bar, nice restaurant) which was sort of disorienting. I asked the gentleman at the desk how to get to the tower, he told me and said he would call me a Taxi as it was 5k to the tower. I didn't mean to be rude but I broke out laughing. He asked why I was laughing and I explained that I'd just finished walking the Camino so 5km X 2 was just about time for second breakfast.



June 29th required some retail therapy, not something that I would normally resort to. I woke up and put on the same clothes that I'd arrived in and more or less had worn every day for now almost 45 days. As I looked in the mirror, I saw gray shirt in a gray hotel room on a very gray day. To make a long story short, a sales clerk at el Corté Inglés had a good sales day. I decided that I was not flying home the next day it my dingy (but loved) Camino attire.

As I sat in the bar next to the hotel (the hotel bar was far too nice), I realized how much I missed my people. A daily ritual while on the Camino was to have 'the best beer I've ever had in the world...today' with my friends. On this day, all alone, I had the 'worst beer I've ever had in the world...today'. Fortunately, there's always tomorrow.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

On this day, all alone, I had the 'worst beer I've ever had in the world...today'. Fortunately, there's always tomorrow.

I hope so. I want that vaccine to be invented soon!

 

[DoughnutANZ]

"i before e except after c"!

Their there

 

[DoughnutANZ]

Restarting from O Cebreiro

My Portuguese friend who has just dropped me off.

Above the clouds the sun is shining

Saying thank you to one of the Camino Angels at the O Tear Bar who called the ambulance for me when I was close to collapsing, nine days earlier. Funnily, the name of the hamlet is Hospital.

As I struggled to walk up this mild incline and wondered what I should do, the Camino provided me with explicit direction.

 

[trecile]

On this date last year I arrived in Finisterre for the third time.


Following the suggestion of @tangata hikoi on this thread, I walked up over the top, rather than on the road to the lighthouse. Such spectacular views this way!

 

[Stephen]

11-6-'17 I was in Muxia celebrating my 70th birthday and the end of another Camino.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

On this date last year I arrived in Finisterre for the third time.
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Following the suggestion of @tangata hikoi on this thread, I walked up over the top, rather than on the road to the lighthouse. Such spectacular views this way!
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I did the same thing after going to the lighthouse in 2017. I then continued walking from there on the cliff above the ocean all the way back to town. I believe it is part of the Camino de los Faros...it was stunning! I think I did it in the opposite direction of you.

 

[jungleboy]

What I wrote from O Pedrouzo on my first camino three years ago today (June 30, 2017):

Camino de Santiago, Day 38. For most of the last 38 days, the mythical city of Santiago de Compostela has been so far away that it has barely been worth contemplating as our final destination. No matter how far we walked, it never seemed to get any closer; on the contrary, one day we saw a sign that said it was 565km away and two days later another sign said it was 580km away.

But we trudged on anyway, faithfully following yellow arrows over mountains and bridges, alongside rivers and roads, and through forests and vineyards and 180 consecutive kilometres of wheat fields, some days in searing heat and others in driving rain. And in doing so we learned what we had already suspected: that the Camino de Santiago is the very epitome of the journey being the goal.

But there is still a destination, after all, and we approach it now both in anticipation at the prospect of finally arriving and with more than a little sadness knowing that our path will soon end, because Santiago de Compostela, which doesn't seem quite so mythical anymore, is now only one day's walk away.

 

[Peregrinopaul]

Well, @trecile, it looks like we've arrived at "last-post-day" on this thread. It's been fun for me. In any case I'm running out of caminos, because all of mine concluded in June or early July.
Undaunted, here goes!
2012 At the Monastery of Oseira. The door to the chilly albergue is on the left. (Ivar has just posted an article about a proposed upgrade).
I was told that the old monk in the picture had been there when Hemingway visited (?) - and Graham Greene.

2014 At the charming Casa Santo Estivo near Chatada on the Invierno - we diverted by road from the Frances to the Sanabres to avoid the crowds.


2018 Heading for the ferry across the Gironde, still on the Littoral. It seems to be little used by pilgrims, who usually follow the main route through Bordeaux, (possibly because of the lack of auberge accomodation). There are frequent backpacker hostals, (if you like talking to surfers rather than pilgrims!).

Part of the track was 1 lane, the WW2 German army motor-cycle track.
2019 Same rout but further north. On the exquisite Canal Nantes à Brest. And that's all folks!

 

[Juspassinthru]

June 30, 2017:

Today, my physical Camino comes to an unceremonious end. After 2 disappointing days in A Coruña, I head for the airport first to Lisbon and then to New York. I did get an upgrade to Business Class on the LIS-JFK leg. Lots to think about going forward.



July 1, 2017:

I began my journey by talking to the 4th grade class at Ben Milam Elementary School where I volunteered and where I met a fellow Pilgrim Paul, aka, Mr. G. I did a live Skype meeting with his class from Burgos where the cathedral was directly outside my hotel window, Paul joined us in Sarria. As I could not walk home from Spain, I symbolically walked home from the light rail station to the school and then to my townhouse. I was finally home, having departed for the Camino 46 days earlier on May 16th.



As Dorothy said, "there's no place like home". Not quite Ruby Slippers but well worn Keen's seemed to do the job.

 

[Anthony18]

A year ago somewhere on the camino-(CF). Miss it dearly.

 

[trecile]

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A year ago somewhere on the camino-(CF). Miss it dearly.

Was this last year in July?
There is a new thread for July.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/on-this-date-in-july.67993/#post-859477

 

[Anthony18]

Was this last year in July?
There is a new thread for July.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/on-this-date-in-july.67993/#post-859477

Ok. Thanks Trecile.

 

[natefaith]

Post more of your June memories at this new thread: https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/on-the-camino-on-this-date-in-june.70225/