I have started to select and upload my photos. Here you can find the already uploaded ones (grouped by days).
Uploading the "whole Camino" might take several weeks, so please be patient.
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Mercat Boqueria
Maybe I have found the most exciting place in Barcelona: the market. Most precisely the ´Mercat Boqueria´. It is full of fresh sea creatures (I would not call them seafood, as I would not eat them in the very state. Some of them were even moving!), fruits that I have never seen, fresh juices, dried fruits, etc... 
Barcelona
Successfully arrived to Barcelona. I have to wait a half an hour to check in but till then I am allowed to use the common area including the Internet. So I am using the opportunity. :) So long so good. :)
I like Catalonia (Catalunya) as they have the same letter, ´ny´, that I have in my name and pronounce in the same way! Ergo they can pronounce my name correctly. Hurray!
Szerencsesem megerkeztem Barcelonaba. Picit varni kell a bejelentkezessel, addig is ´orvul´ hasznalom az internetjuket. :)
Tetszik ez a Katalan nyelv: van ´ny´ betujuk, raadasul ugy ejtik mint mi, uh. veegre valahol ki tudjak ejteni rendesen a nevemet. Hurra! :))
I like Catalonia (Catalunya) as they have the same letter, ´ny´, that I have in my name and pronounce in the same way! Ergo they can pronounce my name correctly. Hurray!
Szerencsesem megerkeztem Barcelonaba. Picit varni kell a bejelentkezessel, addig is ´orvul´ hasznalom az internetjuket. :)
Tetszik ez a Katalan nyelv: van ´ny´ betujuk, raadasul ugy ejtik mint mi, uh. veegre valahol ki tudjak ejteni rendesen a nevemet. Hurra! :))
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Santiago de Compostela
The worst weather during the whole Camino Frances, but we took the last kms joking with friends. Arriving. Big hugs. Champagne. Emotions. Pilgrim mass. Going to the albergue. Having lunch with Camino-friends. Collecting the credential. Happiness, tiredness.
The hospitaleo in the very first albergue said, that the Camino is only the first step, the Way begins after returning home. Will see. For me there is a walk to the end of the World (as Finisterra was thought to be in the middle ages) before.
The hospitaleo in the very first albergue said, that the Camino is only the first step, the Way begins after returning home. Will see. For me there is a walk to the end of the World (as Finisterra was thought to be in the middle ages) before.
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| Camino friends: Bet, Huan de Gante, Klaus, Gary, Katie, Aniko, Bart, Petra |
Monday 10 June 2013
Crystal day
One day (on 6th June, indeed:)) I was going in the hills on a nice path folded by trees. At one point there was an advertisement about some ´crystal galery´ and ´art exhibition´. It was 500m away from the Camino track. I had time and was curious about it so I followed its signs. I ended up by a house built of slate, that was typical for that area.
Inside the house there was several pictures made by an interesting technique: The artist collected stones, minerals and crystals from different edges of the world, crashed them into sand and ´painted´ beautiful and exciting pictures by pouring these crystal-powder using them natural colours. (It is a bit difficult to describe, there will be photos after my returning to home.)
The ´galery´ was in the wide corridor of the 1st floor where the rooms opened. The doors were open so that I could look into the working room of the artist, that created a kind of familiar atmosphere.
There was a tiny, cosy chapel attached to the house. I asked the artist about his religion because both in his pictures and the decoration of the chapel appeared both christian and oriental motives. He said that he did not follow any religions but got what he found to be useful from each of them. He did meditation and yoga and felt that connecting to the transcendence (might not be the right word) does not requires any of the religions.
There are experiences that are so intensive and touching that you are not aware of time For me getting to know the artist and his pictures was one of them. I have always wristwatch with me but I do not know how much time I spent there. This experience stays in my mind and made it busy for days.
Out of hundreds and hundreds of pilgrims that pass by the advertisement only 2 to 10 spend the time and energy to take the extra 1 km and visit the artist, look at his crystal pictures and change ideas with an extraordinary man.
(One more thing: We ware speaking in Spanish so I am really proud of my 24-lesson-deep Spanish knowledge. :))
What was on the icing on the cake: On the very same day I eat first in my life octopus (´pulpo´ in Spanish) on the marketplace of Sarria among local peoples and with live music of Gallician pipe. (I am not sure of the name of the instrument...)
Update: In the meantime I have uploaded the photos. But, unfortunately, they reflects nothing about the atmosphere.
Inside the house there was several pictures made by an interesting technique: The artist collected stones, minerals and crystals from different edges of the world, crashed them into sand and ´painted´ beautiful and exciting pictures by pouring these crystal-powder using them natural colours. (It is a bit difficult to describe, there will be photos after my returning to home.)
The ´galery´ was in the wide corridor of the 1st floor where the rooms opened. The doors were open so that I could look into the working room of the artist, that created a kind of familiar atmosphere.
There was a tiny, cosy chapel attached to the house. I asked the artist about his religion because both in his pictures and the decoration of the chapel appeared both christian and oriental motives. He said that he did not follow any religions but got what he found to be useful from each of them. He did meditation and yoga and felt that connecting to the transcendence (might not be the right word) does not requires any of the religions.
There are experiences that are so intensive and touching that you are not aware of time For me getting to know the artist and his pictures was one of them. I have always wristwatch with me but I do not know how much time I spent there. This experience stays in my mind and made it busy for days.
Out of hundreds and hundreds of pilgrims that pass by the advertisement only 2 to 10 spend the time and energy to take the extra 1 km and visit the artist, look at his crystal pictures and change ideas with an extraordinary man.
(One more thing: We ware speaking in Spanish so I am really proud of my 24-lesson-deep Spanish knowledge. :))
What was on the icing on the cake: On the very same day I eat first in my life octopus (´pulpo´ in Spanish) on the marketplace of Sarria among local peoples and with live music of Gallician pipe. (I am not sure of the name of the instrument...)
Update: In the meantime I have uploaded the photos. But, unfortunately, they reflects nothing about the atmosphere.
Wednesday 5 June 2013
130 kms to Santiago
Today we stay in an albergue (hostel for pilgrims) where they not only have computer with internet but also it is free. :) Usually there are wifi in the albergue but I have no wifi-capable device with me. Computer with internet is not so common because everybody use wifi. Except of me...
Yesterday I saw a sweet little dragon. It must be a dragon as it was too huge to be a lizard...
The landscape is still picturesque but differs from the one there was at the beginning. Now there are bushes in bright rosa, yellow and white colours. There were also parcels of vineyards with organised lines of vine.
Time after time I met the same group of peoples: eg. 'the four Musketeers' (Gary from England, Klaus from Austria, Bart and Jean from Belgium), Kathie (US, California), Michael (complicated: Japan & US & Spain) and friends, and a Slovakian climber girl: Petra. And now I tend to search for them and stay in the same albergue.
There was time in my Camino when I intentionally not stayed in the cities / villages the book of John Brierley offers to avoid the ´crowd´. But for now I realised that the cities he suggest is really worth to see. I mean see without backpack. :) So right now I also follow the stages the ´orange book´ offers.
Now we are enough close to Santiago that the pilgrims who has only one weak for the Camino appear. At least according to the guide book. Till now I have not sensed too much from it.
Yesterday I saw a sweet little dragon. It must be a dragon as it was too huge to be a lizard...
The landscape is still picturesque but differs from the one there was at the beginning. Now there are bushes in bright rosa, yellow and white colours. There were also parcels of vineyards with organised lines of vine.
Time after time I met the same group of peoples: eg. 'the four Musketeers' (Gary from England, Klaus from Austria, Bart and Jean from Belgium), Kathie (US, California), Michael (complicated: Japan & US & Spain) and friends, and a Slovakian climber girl: Petra. And now I tend to search for them and stay in the same albergue.
There was time in my Camino when I intentionally not stayed in the cities / villages the book of John Brierley offers to avoid the ´crowd´. But for now I realised that the cities he suggest is really worth to see. I mean see without backpack. :) So right now I also follow the stages the ´orange book´ offers.
Now we are enough close to Santiago that the pilgrims who has only one weak for the Camino appear. At least according to the guide book. Till now I have not sensed too much from it.
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