{"id":83955,"date":"2014-04-17T09:14:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-halfway\/"},"modified":"2014-04-27T06:41:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:41:39","slug":"one-year-ago-halfway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-halfway\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Ago: Halfway"},"content":{"rendered":"

(from my journal)<\/p>\n

Bercianos del Real Camino
\n1<\/span>7 April<\/p>\n

Francine is in flight! Meanwhile, today was another introspective Meseta day – bleak, virtually unchanging scenery pushing thoughts deep within with little distraction.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

\"On<\/a><\/p>\n

Entered the Province of Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Just before arriving in the town of Sahag\u00fan, at a little place called Ermita de la Virgen del Puente, I crossed the halfway point of my Camino in terms of distance. There’s a monument there – supposedly exactly at the midway point between Roncesvalles and Santiago de Composetela – with statues of Bernardo de Sedirac<\/a> (d. 1128?) who founded the local Cluniac abbey and became Primate of Spain, and King Alfonso VI “the Brave”<\/a> (1047-1109) who founded the nearby city.<\/p>\n

\"Halfway:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"King<\/a><\/p>\n

King Alfonso VI of Le\u00f3n and Castile<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Bernardo<\/a><\/p>\n

Bernardo de Sedirac<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Halfway!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Halfway!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sahag\u00fan was larger than expected, and the ruins of the great Benedictine monastery of Abadia de San Benito el Real de Sahag\u00fan are impressive. Lunched in the city.<\/p>\n

\"Sahag\u00fan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sahag\u00fan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sahag\u00fan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sahag\u00fan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Abadia<\/a><\/p>\n

Abadia de San Benito el Real de Sahag\u00fan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Abadia<\/a><\/p>\n

\"One<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the Photos that Every Peregrino Gets<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Abadia<\/a><\/p>\n

And then there was the incident with the sheep on the bridge. Apparently they have right of way. It was like being subsumed in a tidal wave of wool.<\/p>\n

\"Sheep<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sheep<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Santiago<\/a><\/p>\n

Santiago in a Sea of Sheep<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Eamon<\/a><\/p>\n

Eamon Plays it Cool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Walked with Eamon and Santiago today. Tomorrow will be my last day with both of them.<\/p>\n

\n

Delightful albergue. Communal prayer, dinner preparation, and dinner. Caught up with Cliff again. Lots of brainwork today on a Sah\u00fbl board game.<\/p>\n

[There followed in my journal some notes about a story\/novella.]<\/p>\n

Fun with a friendly goat wandering around the town and getting into the albergue. Great photos of a sheep flock. Spoke with their fascinating shepherd.<\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bercianos<\/a><\/p>\n

All the photos! More goat! Day 16<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(from my journal) Bercianos del Real Camino 17 April Francine is in flight! Meanwhile, today was another introspective Meseta day – bleak, virtually unchanging scenery pushing thoughts deep within with little distraction. Entered the Province of Le\u00f3n. Just before arriving in the town of Sahag\u00fan, at a little place called Ermita de la Virgen del Puente, I crossed the halfway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-lQ7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105641,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/still-blogging-the-camino\/","url_meta":{"origin":83955,"position":0},"title":"Still Blogging the Camino","author":"Thom","date":"06 July 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Francine and I finished our second Camino in 2016, I began a project on my Camino blog to post the best of my Camino photos, one day at a time. 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