Comments | dawtheminstrel: Camino de Santiago

dawtheminstrel

Camino de Santiago

Oct 01, 2015 10:07

We docked in La Coruna, also in Spain, and took a tour that had us walking part of the ancient pilgrimage route to Compostela. The route was beautiful, running through woods and by fields. The scallop shell is the symbol for this walk. After 5 km, the bus picked us up and drove us to Compostela where we went to the cathedral.

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curiouswombat October 1 2015, 18:55:57 UTC

How lovely to be able to walk a little of the Pilgrim Way... without having to do an awful lot of it!

dawtheminstrel October 1 2015, 19:02:39 UTC

I think that was my favorite day of this whole trip.

perelleth October 3 2015, 14:43:35 UTC

A walk in the woods. I think September is the best time of the year to be doing that. Now I'm a bit nostalgic of my homeland: autumn in those forest is definitely something else!
Also Santiago old quarter is really beautiful, mostly very early in the morning, with the morning mists barely lifting and the moist of rain making the stone pavement gleam... Darn. I love old stones.

dawtheminstrel October 3 2015, 15:00:56 UTC

It was just beautiful, Perelleth. Perfect.

dot_o_choillmor October 4 2015, 10:02:30 UTC

I'm laughing at 5km! At least you got to see some of it ;-)

It looks stunning. I'd love to do it but I don't think I'd be able. Too unfit! A lady I worked with did it a few years ago and loved it. It's a really popular thing to do in this side of the world.

dawtheminstrel October 4 2015, 11:07:26 UTC

I had no desire to walk more than 5k. I had to get back to the cruise ship and eat some more.

After we got home, I watched the Martin Sheen movie "The Way," which is about making the pilgrimage and it made the whole thing seem attractive and meaningful, which I'm sure it is. Also, just by coincidence, I'd read a book called PILGRIMAGE by Lucy Pick which is historical fiction about someone who winds up making the pilgrimage.