Walking the Camino de Santiago
The main entrance to Le Puy Cathedral is actually a little tricky to find from the seminary as there are a lot of connected buildings in the way. Fortunately, there’s this door – the first one they actually open in the morning. It’s at the end of short winding street and perhaps a two minute walk from the seminary. If […]
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I started my exploration of Le Puy at just after 6:30 in the morning. This is the view from just in front of the old seminary where I was staying. In fact, that bit with the green door on the left is part of the seminary building. The street through the archway leads (eventually) down the steep hill to the […]
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By the time I arrived in Le Puy, it was dark. I was staying for two nights in the old seminary there, down the street from the cathedral. Fortunately, a very kind hostess responded to my desperate email from the train and remained at her post until I arrived. The next morning, I stumbled downstairs to the common room for […]
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After catching the last train in Lyon, I had to change trains in the town of Saint-Étienne, a place big enough that it had several different train stops. I was a little nervous that I had gotten off at the wrong stop, until the platform started filling up with folks with backpacks. We are waiting for the train to Le […]
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I finally arrived in Lyon sometime after 5:30pm local time, or about four hours after my train left. I had managed to book another train seat, and here is the sign at the airport train station. The photo is a little crooked because I took it on the go as I was jogging to catch the train. And to be […]
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Before I left, Francine asked me to take a selfie each day. I won’t be posting most of them, but this one was taken shortly after I sprinted across Heathrow airport in my attempt to make my connecting flight to Lyon, France. Imagine me sprinting across the airport wearing my full Camino pack. Anyway, I missed the flight by seconds […]
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Today being the feast of Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist, my Confirmation Saint and the brother of Saint James – Santiago – it seems apropos to begin this new series of the Camino Photo of the Day today. My 2023 pilgrimage began in our parish church of Saint Patrick, with the ancient pilgrims’ blessing bestowed on me by my pastor, […]
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In all, I uploaded 10,113 photos from my long Camino. It only took me six weeks, on and off. It helped me start my Camino recovery, though I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t still suffering a bit from the post-Camino blues. I’m considering a new “Camino photo of the day” series, in part to help me process my […]
» Read moreSeries 1: 2016 Once I’d gotten all of my Camino photos up on my Flickr page, I began to search for ways to internalize and come to grips with our 2016 Camino. Beginning on 06 July 2016, I began posting a photo a day with brief explanations and occasional maps. I tried not to post the boring ones (though your […]
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