Category: Photo of the Day 2013

The path up to Zabaldika is a narrow, steep trail up the side of a hill. You can’t really see what’s on the top until you’re pretty much there. Since we really had no idea what was up there, I at least was feeling like maybe taking this detour wasn’t such a great idea. In 2016, I couldn’t get Francine […]

One of the first lessons I learned on the Camino was “take every detour”. This was the moment of decision, the moment when Eamon and I took our first detour from the main route of the Camino. While the rest of our little family pressed ahead, we decided to see what Zabaldika was. Of course, on the maps, it’s Zabaldica. […]

Along the Camino are many monuments to fallen pilgrims. This marks the place where Rosanna di Verona ended her Camino in 2006. Requiescat in pace, Peregrina. Date: 03 April 2013Place: between Irotz and Zabaldica (Navarra, Spain) Maps! On the way from Zubiri to Pamplona.

Our breakfast in Irotz was late enough – 11am – that following my café con leche, I had more of a lunch. It was my first Spanish chorizo, warmed up and on bread. It was amazing, what with all of the juices from the chorizo soaking into the bread, and now I’m hungry just thinking about it. Anyway, this is […]

Finally had our breakfast in the village of Irotz (or, Iroz if you trust the Castilian maps) at about 11am. I took the time to update my journal, as you can see. It’s funny to look at the same book more than six years later. I’m using my journal to help write the posts that go with these photos, and […]

I have absolutely no idea what these ruins were in their former life. They are located on a gravel road in a wooded area, with nothing nearby but the occasional house or homestead. In fact, there’s a lovely, well-kept house directly across the road from this site. Whatever this building may once have been, it’s pretty clear that it’s become […]

Carlos and Eamon cross the bridge over the Río Arga into the village of Zuriáin. We’ve already crossed this river once today, and we’ll cross it twice more before the day is over. As the Camino becomes more popular again – and more lucrative for the locals – reconstruction and construction abounds. We will see this again and again as […]

Apologies for the blurriness. Today I met Carlos. He was moving slowly due to some issues with his knees, but he fell in well with our poky little group. He had some Brazilian honey with him, that he shared with us, saying “Brazilian bees best in world!” That’s Eamon from New Zealand on the left, and Carlos from Brazil on […]

The road fill here appears to be construction debris. Whatever it takes! I’m amused that they had to put up a sign prohibiting cars from using this stretch of the Camino, because that clearly means that somebody tried it at some point. I don’t imagine they got very far. Date: 03 April 2013Place: between Akerreta and Zuriáin (Navarra, Spain) Maps! […]

Throughout Navarra, many signs appear in both Spanish and Basque. One of the interesting tensions between the speakers of these languages that I’ve noticed, is that most local (and most especially business) signs give the Basque names for places, while the maps invariably give the Spanish ones. This means that although the map says you’re looking for “Aquerreta”, when you […]