One Day at a time, One Photo at a Time (Part 3)

[VNwalking]

A few of us can now think of walking or are even out there on the camino, while the rest of us can only wait, and cultivate patience

Rounds one and two of this thread have allowed us all a chance to turn towards the happy memories day by day, and to share the gift of walking even when we cannot actually be there.

So here is round three! Share the joy, sorrow, struggle and humor: one photo per day from any camino. Please post thumbnails in order to keep the thread to a manageable size for those of us with slow connections.

I'll start this round with a fond memory of the Tertulia, a favorite haunt in Santiago. Tea. Real tea...and a wonderful place to gather with friends after a camino. Or for breakfast before setting off for Finisterre.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Rick of Rick and Peg. Here is our photo from 7th, September, 2014 of the same drawing you posted yesterday. We thought it was an allegorical representation of a Pilgrim, with three other Pilgrim characters at his waist and another carried at his left shoulder, but the staff and what appears to be a hat with a hole at the crown, carried on the left arm, suggests a Pilgrim. But would be interested if anyone has a more authoritative understanding or different interpretation.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 8th, September, 2014 Burgos to Hornillos del Camino. View from Alto Meseta (950m) with Hornillos del Camino in the valley. ( May have already posted this picture in the 1st or 2nd threads!, but can't remember ).

 

[AlanSykes]

Fuentibre, the source of the Ebro. The miniature statue is of the Virgen del Pilar, from Zaragoza, several 100km downstream. On the Ruta de los Faramontes, which I walked to get between the Olvidado and the Norte.

 

[Theatregal]

Arriving at Zubiri on this day 2012.

 

[VNwalking]

The sources of great rivers are so understated.
Just a spring. Water welling up and beginning its journey to the sea.
Nothing to see here that yells at you.
But........

Beautiful.

 

[SabsP]

Breakfast on the Portugues 2015.
Two bottles of water, a pastry and a coffee for 2.60 € ( that year ).. I know you can't compare income and economical situation of two countries but I felt a bit uneasy paying so little...

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

I loved the Ebro Camino from Vinaros to Logrono, five years ago. Beautiful mountain scenery, and a good footpath through multiple tunnels where once a train line had run.

 

[Lexicos]

Goes to show, you miss out on a lot of great things when you don’t know where to look. Ebro Camino looks amazing, in this photo anyway.

 

[JohnLloyd]

On this day in 2012, I was about to have a very good night here, in the company of Síninn and his motley crew, enjoying a battered VHS copy of "The Way" playing on loop in a corner too.

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

Goes to show, you miss out on a lot of great things when you don’t know where to look. Ebro Camino looks amazing, in this photo anyway.

Hi Lexicos!
You can find my Ebro diary half way down my web site at https://snicholl5.wixsite.com/home-site/santiago
I would gladly walk it again, if age and covid19 were not against me !!
Buen camino, amigo!

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

 

[holidayjenny]

8th September 2019. Arrived in Bercianos del Real Camino on the Sunday that was their feast day. Was great to see so many family groups enjoying the festivities.

 

[Theatregal]

The restful walled garden at Trinidad de Arre

 

[lt56ny]

On this day in 2012, I was about to have a very good night here, in the company of Síninn and his motley crew, enjoying a battered VHS copy of "The Way" playing on loop in a corner too.

I miss that place.

 

[AlanSykes]

Autumn in the Alpujarras - near Huenéja on the Mozárabe.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 9th, September, 2014 Hornillos del Camino to Castrojeriz. Arco de San Anton next to the ruins of XIVthC Convento de San Anton.

 

[SabsP]

Etapa from La Brujula to Burgos on the Via de Bayona. 2019.
Little did I know that it would be the last day on a Spanish Camino for the foreseeable future.

 

[VNwalking]

The Iglesia de Santiago in Pancorbo on the Via de Bayona.
This little town is a gem in its own right but set as it is in such a dramatic landscape...the wow factor is impressive. Somehow the nearby Autopista and Carretera - not to mention the rail corridor that actually goes through the village - don't significantly detract from it.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Another day with bicycles. Leaving Sahagún.

 

[Theatregal]

Entering Pamplona

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 10th, September, 2014 Castrojeriz to Fromista. Looking towards Fromista along the Canal de Castilla.

 

[SabsP]

Detail in Viana. 20111. Camino Frances.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Angels in Astorga
At Gaudí's Episcopal Palace.

 

[JohnLloyd]

The pretty river Umia, at Caldas de Reis

 

[Theatregal]

Early evening in Lorca from the window of the wonderful Albergue de Lorca José Ramón.

 

[VNwalking]

The very relaxing and wild back garden of El Beso albergue, past Tracastella. They have some enormous chestnut trees, but the stars of the show in early April were the blooming fruit trees.

 

[peregrina2000]

I loved the Ebro Camino from Vinaros to Logrono, five years ago. Beautiful mountain scenery, and a good footpath through multiple tunnels where once a train line had run.

I also loved that route, though I detoured off onto the Castellano-Aragonés two days after Zaragoza. My picture is from the day before Stephen’s, right before that walk the describes that goes through train tunnels.

 

[AlanSykes]

A lion in León

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 11th, September, 2014 Fromista to Carrion de los Condes. Ermita de la Virgen del Rio at the end of the river walk a couple of kilometeres before Villalcazar de Sirga.

 

[SabsP]

Coming out of a foresttrack and walking into this industrial park. Enormous gasstation, perfect for coffee to tackle the last five k's into Santiago de Compostela. Camino Ingles 2018.
I love these transitions from idyllic landscapes on a Camino back into the reality of working life!

 

[VNwalking]

I remember that stop well.
For the preceeding 500m I had to hoof it to stay well in front of a school group that was gaining on me...wanting to make sure I got a place to sit!

 

[JohnLloyd]

I'm always on the lookout for street art, but I'm not entirely sure I'd like to live within the gaze of the Cat of Caldas de Reis

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

More strange art. A disturbing image of Yoda.

 

[SheriGoddart24]

The pretty river Umia, at Caldas de Reis

How beautiful it is! I am fascinated by such views.

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

I also loved that route, though I detoured off onto the Castellano-Aragonés two days after Zaragoza. My picture is from the day before Stephen’s, right before that walk the describes that goes through train tunnels.

I remember that so well! But on my camino it was a misty morning, and quite difficult to see the river until about 11 a.m. Such happy memories.

 

[VNwalking]

It fascinates me that there is this big exuberantly untamed green space so close to the old centre of Santiago. It's always a joy to take the lane through it, going from Rua San Clemente to Rua das Hortas.
This - and the park below the Pilgrims' Office where people exercise their dogs - are a lovely break from the touristic vibe of much of the old town; they both feel completely 'normal.'

 

[Theatregal]

Nearing Villamayor de Monjardín and encountering a pilgrim trio walking in the opposite direction.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- As we only have a couple of photos of myself( Anne) and another pilgrim, from Portland, Oregon who we met often along the way and we were staying at the same Albergue in Terradillos de los Templarios, Albergue Los Templarios on the 12th, September, 2014, why we didn't take more photos that day I don't know! I do remember it being very hot and it seemed quite a long walk along the Calzada Romana, so maybe we didn't feel like taking any photos!
Will post a photo from the evening before in Carrion de los Condes.
Entrance, choir and organ of Iglesia de Santa Maria del Camino XIIthC.

 

[SabsP]

2017 . Somewhere after El Burgo Ranero. End of March and a very quiet Camino ( I only walked from Carrion de los Condes to Astorga that year ).

 

[JohnLloyd]

The rather busy canvas wall at Casa Esperón in Carracedo, just outside Caldas de Reis.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Running of the bands



We were in Sahagún for the start of their festivities for celebrating San Juan de Sahagún. Prior to the running of the bulls peñas (clubs), each wearing their colors, paraded down the route.

 

[Theatregal]

On this day in 2012 - walking past the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Poyo near Torres de Rio.

 

[David61]

Angels in Astorga
At Gaudí's Episcopal Palace.

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Full size Angels

 

[Canche]

I am from Guatemala and "Jack" was the only Guatemalan I met on the Camino. In fact his owner brought him to Spain (Camino del Norte) from Antigua which is where I am from.

 

[SabsP]

Those typical tiles. Somewhere on the Camino Ingles.

 

[VNwalking]

I still don't know how to explain it.

Welcome to the twilight zone, where nothing makes sense anymore. Well, if it's any consolation you're in good company - we're all on this crazy planet together.

So today from the Valcarlos way up to Roncesvalles, March 2015.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 13th, September, 2014 Terradillos de los Templarios to Calzadilla de los Hermanillos.
Leaving Sahagun via the Puente Canto over the Rio Cea, originally Roman but reconstructed in the XIthC and XVIthC.

 

[Stephen Nicholls]

Those typical tiles. Somewhere on the Camino Ingles.

Abegondo I think, 15 kms from A Coruna. Happy memories. I walked it in 2014. Here's a picture of the very first camino marker in A Coruna port.


When will we be able to return I wonder?
Blessings from East Anglia.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

 

[JohnLloyd]

I wonder how many designs were tried before they finally found one that was truly rodent-proof.

 

[Canche]

I wonder how many designs were tried before they finally found one that was truly rodent-proof.

I remember those

 

[Theatregal]

Sept. 13, 2012. Before Logroño, stopping at Casa Felisa for a stamp, coffee and toast now made by her daughter Maria in the front kitchen. As we left, she gave us grapes that she snipped from the vines over her door.

 

[AlanSykes]

Haven't had one of these in a while. Between Retortillo de Soria and Tarancueña on the Lana.

 

[Artful-Chick]

13 September 2016 - Azambuja - Porto de Muge then onto Santarem. Love the Portuguese architecture. We started our trip in Lisboa a few days earlier - my blog - Camino Portuguese – wayfinding nightmare and blistering heat - sums up our initial few days on the ever-changing tracks.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Bilbao on the Norte, April 2016.

 

[VNwalking]

The light, the light!
Marvelous.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 14th, September, 2014 Calzadilla de los Hermanillos to Mansilla de las Mulas.
View from the Calzada Romano near Reliegos.

 

[SabsP]

Belorado. 2011.

 

[Artful-Chick]

Bilbao on the Norte, April 2016.
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[Artful-Chick]

Great photo Chrissy - I went to Bilbao in September 2014 - on my way back to Frances post-Camino Frances trip.

 

[JohnLloyd]

The Merchant of Padrón

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Sign on a pillar near the church in Ponferrada and a Google Lens translation.

 

[Theatregal]

The red Rioja earth between Navarette and Najera

 

[AlanSykes]

A pleasant inland beach on the Ebro reservoir on the Camino Olvidado, with the foothills of the Picos de Europa in the distance. Water a bit chilly for a dip last November, but well worth it.

 

[SabsP]

Random bar in Sahagun. End of March 2013. Hiding from the biting cold.

 

[Former member 49149]

Take your eye off the ball, and look! A feast of ‘fotos’ before you know it! This is just a delightful thread, and I am a thankful member of the audience. Keep the thumbnails coming!

 

[VNwalking]

a Google Lens translation

Hmmmmmmmm....interesting.

Walking out into an icy dawn from Hornillos, March 2015.

 

[JohnLloyd]

On this day, two years ago

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Another of my bird pictures. Don't expect @Theatregal bird photo quality.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 15th, September, 2014 Mansilas de las Mulas to Leon. Plaza de Santa Maria del Camino y Grano, with Albergue Santa Maria de Carbajal on the left.

 

[VNwalking]

Don't expect @Theatregal bird photo quality.

Well, maybe not, but I can tell it's a Chaffinch.
There's only so much you can do with a phone and small distant birds.
(BTW, maybe no-one noticed but I sneaked a bird photo in a few rounds ago, too, also not @Theatregal quality - the one from the Iglesia de Santiago in Pancorbo on the Vasco. It has the usual crowd of swallows, one of which photo-bombed the church.)

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

There's only so much you can do with a phone and small distant birds.

On the CF I used an inexpensive point and shoot camera with a mild zoom. Occasionally I would put its SD card into a tablet, pick a few pictures (not always my best), use my fingers to zoom, move and crop and then take a screenshot of 1024x600. Good thing. I swapped cards once I got to Galicia. Later, in Muxia, I found that my first card had snapped. Of perhaps 4,000 pictures taken on that first card I have maybe 500-600 from the tablet's memory.

I had a few choice words to say when I discovered the snap in the card but I got over it in about 5 minutes when I realized that I had thousands of slides that hadn't been looked at in decades.

 

[Theatregal]

The garden at the Albergue Abadía Cisterciense, Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A favourite memorable place to stay. A very organized, stern place - I loved it. I did get lost trying to find my bed in a tiny 3 bed room along a maze of passages and stairs and side rooms - I remember thinking, "if there's a fire".... But I had such a good deep sleep there.

 

[Theatregal]

(BTW, maybe no-one noticed but I sneaked a bird photo in a few rounds ago, too, also not @Theatregal quality - the one from the Iglesia de Santiago in Pancorbo on the Vasco.

I did notice that bird. Perfectly positioned in flight next to the the bell tower. The kind of shot I'll wait forever to take.

 

[VNwalking]

The kind of shot I'll wait forever to take.

Well, I was of course delighted, but it was totally random. There were lots of them, so you'd get that shot in a second - and I bet it'd be much better than mine.

 

[Theatregal]

Another of my bird pictures. Don't expect @Theatregal bird photo quality.

I don't have many good bird shots on the camino. Usually using my phone or a small point and shoot camera when I'm walking which are great for big birds like storks - but not so much for little birds A pretty photo though @Rick of Rick and Peg - the light and the perspective of the little bird on the hay bale.

 

[VNwalking]

The garden at the Albergue Abadía Cisterciense, Santo Domingo de la Calzada.

Oh! I missed this, intent as I was to get to Grañon. It sounds like my kind of place, under the umbrella of monastics. I pray these sisters have been spared the terrible toll of covid-19 in SDdlC.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

(BTW, maybe no-one noticed but I sneaked a bird photo in a few rounds ago, too, also not @Theatregal quality - the one from the Iglesia de Santiago in Pancorbo on the Vasco. It has the usual crowd of swallows, one of which photo-bombed the church.)

Folks, that was back here

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/one-day-at-a-time-one-photo-at-a-time-part-3.68436/#post-871439

 

[Artful-Chick]

Hmmmmmmmm....interesting.

Walking out into an icy dawn from Hornillos, March 2015.

Thanks Rick, to avoid the mid-day heat we walked out before dawn, so I really never got to see the track. Loved the way you managed to capture the ice.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 16th, September, 2014 A busy rest day in Leon!
Scallop shells on the turret of the Church of San Marcos from the Parador.

 

[SabsP]

We have an exceptional " Indian summer " here with temperatures yesterday of 34 Celsius.
Brought me back to the Camino Ingles ( 2014 ) when I drank this refreshing horchata in Pontedeume.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Thanks Rick, to avoid the mid-day heat we walked out before dawn, so I really never got to see the track. Loved the way you managed to capture the ice.

Thanks for the thanks but that was @VNwalking's post and picture. She just quoted me and you caught my name from that.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Back to the festivities in Sahagún. This club knows how to move their refreshments around with them.

 

[JohnLloyd]

The strangely unfocused river Sar, on the way out of Padrón

 

[VNwalking]

refreshing horchata

I learned something today.
Horchata is made with 'tiger nuts,' which are not nuts at all but the roots of a sedge (of all things).
These were an eye-opener:

Tigernuts ▷ Valencia (Spain) ▷ Permanent stock 🥇 We are Tigernuts.

Tigernuts are the basis of our business. ✅ All qualities. ✅ Permanent stock in large quantity. ✅ Best prices. ✅ All types of tigernuts.

www.tigernuts.com

Chufas Bou - Farming organic Valencian tiger nuts.

Since 1946, we are experts in growing amazing quality tiger nuts in our fields in Alboraya, Valencia.

www.chufasbou.com

If you're walking the Levante, you're in Chufa ground zero. I can't resist also posting this in the virtual Levante thread.

This from the Ingles, somewhere on the first day out of A Coruña.
I wasn't particularly looking for miracles, but had a few questions about the cage.

 

[Theatregal]

Vegetables in front of a house in Belorado. There wasn't a sign indicating they were for sale or free - just beautifully placed next to the door.

 

[JohnLloyd]

I learned something today.
Horchata is made with 'tiger nuts,' which are not nuts at all but the roots of a sedge (of all things).
These were an eye-opener:

Tigernuts ▷ Valencia (Spain) ▷ Permanent stock 🥇 We are Tigernuts.

Tigernuts are the basis of our business. ✅ All qualities. ✅ Permanent stock in large quantity. ✅ Best prices. ✅ All types of tigernuts.

www.tigernuts.com

Chufas Bou - Farming organic Valencian tiger nuts.

Since 1946, we are experts in growing amazing quality tiger nuts in our fields in Alboraya, Valencia.

www.chufasbou.com

If you're walking the Levante, you're in Chufa ground zero. I can't resist also posting this in the virtual Levante thread.

This from the Ingles, somewhere on the first day out of A Coruña.
I wasn't particularly looking for miracles, but had a few questions about the cage.

Now this song is rolling around in my head.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 17th, September, 2014 Leon to Villar de Mazarife. Statue in centre of Villar de Mazarife.

 

[SabsP]

Wall of yet another quinta on the Camino Portugues.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Monument in Astorga. The Spanish lion triumphant over the Napoleonic eagle.

 

[JohnLloyd]

Inspiration, just a few kilometres away from Santiago on the Portugués

 

[Theatregal]

View from the window of the San Antón Abad Hostel in Villafranca Montes de Oca.

 

[Anne&Pat]

Camino Frances- 18th, September, 2014 Villar de Mazarife to Villares de Orbigo. In the courtyard of Albergue Villares.

 

[VNwalking]

"Pilgrims on the Roof," hopefully coming again soon to a Cathedral near you in Santiago.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

Seen on the way to Arnéguy.

 

[JohnLloyd]

Seen on the outskirts of Santiago, so it was unlikely that I was going to.

Still, nice to see.

 

[SabsP]

Inside the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. Quiet thoughts.

 

[Theatregal]

On this day in 2012, between Villafranca Montes de Oca and San Juan de Ortega - a misty foggy morning through the forest passing the Monument to the Fallen, those executed during the Civil War. A morning strong in my memory. I didn't know about the monument until I came to it, but well before the place, the atmosphere was hushed and reflective with most people - even those in groups - moving into walking solo, quietly.

 

[Lexicos]

Fantastic photo Theatregal. 10 out of 10.