Walking the Camino de Santiago
My beautiful bride of 17 years was taken to the emergency room at midnight of Easter Sunday. She was physically weak and having trouble with her memory. At Tacoma General Hospital, they ran every test you could imagine. They even sent a sample of her spinal fluid to the Mayo Clinic. On May 5, we received the final diagnosis from […]
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As made the descent into Decazeville, I passed through a number of suburbs that were clearly farming villages once. Exhibit A is the photo below. Longtime readers will know that I love old, rusted farm equipment. There’s something plaintive and perhaps even nostalgic about seeing these once-necessary machines silently rusting to bits where they were abandoned. Date: 28 August 2023 […]
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The air was cool and the path (mostly) shady, as the Camino passed through forests and fields, roughly parallel to the River Lot. I was particularly struck by this marker. In addition to the red and white blazes marking the trail, many villages and départements in France have their own markers or signs. This one is not just an unusual […]
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We stayed in Santiago for another couple of days, during the middle of the festivities for the Ascension. But this photo series, like our Camino, must finally come to an end. We began this series entering Saint-Jean, and we must end it as we leave Santiago. Although this wasn’t quite my last photo in Santiago, it was pretty close, and […]
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The Cathedral was, as you can see, undergoing a facelift and repairs. This has been going on for years, and though the exterior scaffolding is now gone, as I write this in 2019, it’s the turn of the cathedral interior. While repairs are going on – in preparation of the Holy Year 2021 – the Pilgrims’ Mass has been moved […]
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Here we see our redoubtable pilgrims enjoying their second or third course of tapas of the evening. The table is huge, and pilgrims stop by and wander off as the whim takes them. No telling how many pitchers of sangria were involved. Date: 03 May 2016Place: Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain)
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The narrow medieval streets in the old town of Santiago twist and wind like a maze around the Cathedral. The streets are lined with shops and cafés, hotels and albergues, churches and museums. This particular street is one of several that radiate out from the Cathedral squares, and it is famous for having many tapas bars, one after the other. […]
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The organ of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, with its multi-story pipes at right angles and its fantastic cherubs, dominates the central nave. It’s so large that the horizontal pipes nearly meet in the middle of the nave. And it’s ear-splittingly loud when played for effect. Date: 03 May 2016Place: Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain)
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The Cathedral of Santiago contains numerous chapels, some quite simple and some extravagant. I’m limiting myself to just five photos. What can be said about this magnificent carving of Christ being taken down from the Cross? It looks as though they are about to lay him in the sepulcher of the altar – the tomb prepared for Him from the […]
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The Cathedral of Santiago contains numerous chapels, some quite simple and some extravagant. I’m limiting myself to just five photos. I very much love this particular chapel, though it’s pretty obvious that the reredos could use a major restoration. I shudder to think how many layers of paint have been splopped up there by enthusiastic amateurs. Date: 03 May 2016 […]
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