Estoy agradecido
2025年6月30日, スペイン ⋅ 🌩️ 33 °C
Walking the Camino doesn't always allow time for deep thoughts. Frequently things have been tough enough that focusing on the moment might be the best a person can do. I often work on my Spanish,もっと詳しく
Casa Felisa
2025年7月1日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
On the short 9 km walk from Viana to Logroño I was lucky enough to pass by Casa Felisa. It was even more wonderful than the guidebook description: Here, from 1940-2002, Felisa Rodríguez Medel, andもっと詳しく
Camino Days 10 & 11
2025年7月1日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Day 10 was the short trip from Viana to Logroño. Many pinchos and glasses of wine were consumed with a Camino friend after visiting a few churches.
Day 11 was came in two parts. Logroño toもっと詳しく
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Another peregrino we keep leap frogging. If you're interested, here's his Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/16srsVrZ2E/?mibe…
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These were our absolute favorite pinxos…. Grilled mushrooms with shrimp doused in garlic butter
Grace, the pokey, bougie peregrina
2025年7月2日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
As we’ve hinted before, my blisters have been giving me trouble. I’ve long known that walking at a fast pace and walking in high temperatures makes me more prone to blisters. Doing both forもっと詳しく
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A life sized version of The Game of the Goose (El Juego de La Oca) themed for the Camino. This game is very much like Chutes and Ladders/Snakes and Ladders. Many people see the game as a metaphor for the Camino (and it’s commonly understood that the Camino is a metaphor for life.) Our favorite Camino travelogue, Bebe Bahrami’s The Way of the Wild Goose, explored the author’s experience of the Camino through the lens of the game and its impacted how I’ve thought about my own Camino. I’m working on a separate post about all of this but it’s taking me a while to put all my thoughts together.
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Sunrise as we left Logroño this morning. We are always walking westward towards Santiago, so we have to turn around to see the sunrise.
Nájera photos
2025年7月2日, スペイン ⋅ 🌩️ 28 °C
Ran out of photo slots on the last footprint so here are some more.
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Is that red rock native to just this area? Is this rock formation part of the Pyranese Mts.?
Camino Day 12
2025年7月3日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
I walked 21.5 km from Nájera to Santo Domingo de la Calzada to meet Grace who took the bus as she was still dealing with blisters. I had a nice chat with three Hungarians for the first few kilometersもっと詳しく
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"Santo Domingo’s Birds The 12th-century Codex Calixtinus recounts the story a German family passing through Santo Domingo when their son was falsely accused of stealing silver from an innkeeper. The town hanged him on the spot, but Santo Domingo intervened, lifting the boy up so that he would not die. The boy’s parents then begged the judge, who was about to sit down to a delectable meal of roasted birds, to release their innocent son. He said he would do so as soon as the two fowl on his plate sat up and sang. That is just what the cock and hen did, and the judge released the young man."
Day 12: Reunited and it feels so good!
2025年7月3日, スペイン ⋅ 🌩️ 26 °C
Chris wanted to do another long (27 km) day and I wanted to baby my feet for another day, so we started the day apart.
We met in the town of Santo Domingo de la Calzada. (“De la Calzada” meansもっと詳しく
Day 13 - Grace rocks it
2025年7月3日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
We were blessed this morning at our lodging with fresh coffee and some packaged mini muffins to start our day. As usual, it was about 10 km to the first open bar for our café con leche and breakfast.もっと詳しく
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Artistic Heritage Baptismal Font (Church of Our Lady of the Street - Redecilla del Camino) STYLE Romanesque, with Mozarabic influences PERIOD 12th Century LOCATION Church of Our Lady of the Street, in the baptistery, Epistle side This is one of the best examples of Romanesque fonts preserved in the province of Burgos. It lacks a base and stands on a foot formed by eight semi-columns attached to a circular core. The crown has a carved mouthpiece, and its decoration is arranged in narrow bands, which overlap in four levels without leaving empty spaces. These levels are separated by fine imposts with pearly and interlaced motifs. Doors and windows of different appearance are depicted, which together form an imaginary city (heavenly Jerusalem), defended by eight semicircular towers in high relief, which coincide with each of the lobes of the mouthpiece, and by eight machicolations crowned with triangular roofs The baptismal font of Redecilla del Camino is a remarkably original element, mainly due to its decorative theme, which departs from the usual motifs related to the Camino de Santiago and the influence of French Romanesque. According to various authors, the motifs that appear on it resemble those created by medieval miniaturists with Hispanic roots. The proximity of Redecilla to the Abbey of San Millán de la Cogolla, the most important center of Castilian Mozarabism, could explain this. The decoration of the font represents the heavenly Jerusalem defended by eight towers.
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"The Ermita Virgen de la Peña was built to honor a discovery of the image of the child Jesus, which, legend has it, was found on this site in 712. (The timeline doesn’t mesh, as the sculpture is from the 12th century, but it’s still a lovely place and a lovely story.)"
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THE CITY OF BORGOS ON THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF COUNT DIEGO R. PORCELOS, ITS FOUNDER. WHO, ACCORDING TO TRADITION, RESTS HERE. 1913-2014
On Sauntering
2025年7月4日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
As usual, Chris beat me to posting, so I’ll just share a few thoughts. I’ll try not to duplicate pictures— except for the picture I took of the baptismal font at La Iglesia de la Virgen de laもっと詳しく
旅行者A life lesson I take through your post…a little more sauntering through life and appreciating each moment can be healing as well as healthier mentally and physically. I’m still praying for your feet.🩷🦋
Day 14
2025年7月5日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Today was a shorter 18 km from Villafranca Montes de Oca to Atapuerca. There was a steep climb for the first 5 km and no services for 12, but Dr. Coffee, aka Super Pilgrim, was set up at the halfwayもっと詳しく
First coffee stop thoughts
2025年7月6日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
It’s 8:30 AM. We’ve walked about 90 minutes and 5.8 km so far. We’re also about halfway through our first stop at a bar for coffee and breakfast. (Not sure if it’s been mentioned yet, but barsもっと詳しく
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Proof that we sometimes visit the town’s church before we go to the bar. Unfortunately, the church was closed.
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The town of Atapuerca, where we stayed last night, is famous for its caves which have the remains of all kinds of neolithic people and animals. We went on a tour of the dig site, but unfortunately didn’t understand very much because the tour was given in very technical Spanish. The site was still cool
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One of our sunrise views this morning. Cleaning up the hill reminded me of all of my Saturday morning hikes with Roseanne and Castro Valley.
Day 15
2025年7月7日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The day started without coffee as the local store did not open up early on Sundays--slowly learning that advertised hours don't apply on Sundays. The Camino started with a long but gradual ascent thatもっと詳しく
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Since the pilgrim dominated the mountains of Navarre in Burguete and saw the vast fields of Spain, he has not enjoyed a more beautiful view like this. The Jacobean Pilgrimages. Luciano Huidobro. Page 106. Volume II
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As we walk, the gamer part of our brains often wonder what the territory would be worth in terms of a game like Settlers of Catan. Lots of wheat, some timber, but stone and ore are a premium.
Rest day is the best day!
2025年7月7日, スペイン ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
When Chris and I planned our Camino, we took our favorite guide book’s suggested itinerary and added in every one of the author’s suggested rest days plus an extra for a total of five rest days.もっと詳しく
Burgos
2025年7月7日, スペイン ⋅ 🌬 23 °C
Just some photos from our rest day in Burgos. Only 5 km of walking around the city on our rest day.
Our second third begins
2025年7月8日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
I know Chris has mentioned this before, but the route we’re on is traditional broken into three parts:
-From St. Jean-pied-du-port to Burgos (which is said to test and then strengthen yourもっと詳しく
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The story goes that Napoleon’s army came through and tried to steal all of the towns chickens by putting them in the military bands drums. The plan would’ve succeeded, it’s said, except that one of the roosters started crowing. The town was so thankful that they put a statue of the heroic rooster on the town water fountain.
Day 17 - Burgos to Hornillos del Camino
2025年7月8日, スペイン ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
Aside from the new blister, today almost felt like a rest day. Our lodging was on the outskirts of Burgos so our walk was only 18.5 vs the estimated 21 km. We left at 6:15 am and were done by noon.もっと詳しく
Day 18 - Hornillos to Castrojeriz
2025年7月9日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We departed before sunrise after a cup of coffee and packaged pastries. It was another beautiful cool morning and amazing sunrise. We had breakfast at the halfway point in Hontanas and were inもっと詳しく
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The Camino romantically passes under one of the monastery’s half-crumbled arches. In the Middle Ages, this site contained a sheltered porch area where pilgrims who arrived after the monastery gates had been locked for the night could find a protected place to sleep. There, the monks also left food and drink in two stone niches set within the wall.
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Founded in 1146 by the French order of Antonines, followers of Saint Anthony of Egypt, the present ruins of the monastery of San Antón Abad stand alone in the nook of a small ravine, mostly to the left of the Camino. Largely Gothic and from the 14th century, the monastery existed in service to pilgrims as a hospital.
We have cookies!!!!
2025年7月9日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Gather round, friends, as I tell you about the most Chris Shannon thing to happen on the Camino so far:
Chris and I had a little bit of energy after resting at our albergue, so we decided to visitもっと詳しく
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If you look closely at the pictures, you can see that they tell you how much of each kind comes in a box. We missed this key detail when ordering and thought that we could order individual pieces.
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This is Chris after he placed the initial order. We had no idea about the cookiepocalypse about to befall us
Day 19: Sleepy towns are for sleeping
2025年7月10日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
We had a long day of walking (25.5 km/almost 16 miles) and temperatures were supposed to reach 90 by the afternoon, so we set off at 5 AM.
We had a steep climb right off the bat, but the moon andもっと詳しく
More Day 19 photos
2025年7月10日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Grace hit the highlights so here are some more pictures.
The late pilgrim sees the church
2025年7月11日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Today’s lesson: the early bird might get the worm (and perhaps the last private room in the pilgrim’s hostel), but the late (or at least slow) pilgrim gets to see the inside of the 12th centuryもっと詳しく
Why the Camino?
2025年7月11日, スペイン ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
An obvious conversation starter on the Camino is, "Why are you doing the Camino?" After 20 days I'm still not sure I have a good or simple answer like the ones I've heard.
I enjoy traveling and wasもっと詳しく
旅行者The world seems upside down for many of us. I believe we’ll all get through, with faith and friendships.
Day 21 - Halfway there
2025年7月12日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Carrion de Los Condes to Ledigos
As we end our third week on the Camino, we reached the halfway point both in terms of time and distance (about 400 km done). It was another 4 am wake up to beat theもっと詳しく
Day 22 - Ledigos to Sahagún
2025年7月13日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
We enjoyed a full night's rest thanks to a 6pm dinner at the albergue and only a 17 km walk today. We drank a café con leche at 6:30am as the albergue bar opened and then departed with a Caminoもっと詳しく
Meandering on the Meseta
2025年7月13日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Today was a lovely, lazy day. We only had to do about 16 km/9.9 miles and the weather was nice and mild, so we slept in a little bit so we could grab a quick café con leche from our albergue’s barもっと詳しく
