Camino de Levante Photo Journal
Epilog - Camino de Santiago and Bilbao
On 9 May, I left Santiago by bus heading for Pamplona at the beginning of the Camino Français to begin my shortest walking of the Camino. I walked with my brother, Marty, for four days. Then I headed for Bilbao to go to Germany.
Before joining Marty in Obanos, I stayed a night in the refugio in Puente la Reina on the anniversary of Petra and my meeting. It was in that very refugio in 2003.
I had walked with Marty in 2007 for a seven days to help him get started. He only made it to Burgos that year. This year he made it all the way to Santiago. I left him in Los Arcos.
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I found my way to Puenta la Reina and was there on 10 May exactly nine years after Petra and I met at this very table in the refugio there. (10 May 12)
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Marty and I met the next day at Obanos and sat around over coffee and beer before walking to Eunate. (11 May 12)
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This is one for the best pictures I have taken of the Templar chapel at Eunate. (11 May 12)
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Marty leaving Obanos the next morning. Look what he did to that nice folding mat. He cut it in half! (12 May 12)
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We walked together for five or six days. (13 May 12)
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A Spanish fields are full of poppies this time of year. (13 May 12)
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The inside of a fine refugio in Villatuerta before Estella. (13 May 12)
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The entrance hall of the same refugio. (13 May 12)
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(14 May 12)
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A fancy, new, never-seen-before Camino marker in the street in Villatuerta. (14 May 12)
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And yet another new marker in Villatuerta. (14 May 12)
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And yet another new marker, this one in the streets of Estella alternating with the standard shell marker. (14 May 12)
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Outside Estella at Irache, they serve a bitter wine at this public fountain. Wine from a fountain! (14 May 12)
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The Manjarin mountain. The path has changed significantly from how it looked the first time I walked the Camino in 2003. The 2003 path looked line this. (14 May 12)
After Los Arcos, I left Marty to his walk and took a bus to Bilbao to catch a plane to Germany to join up with Petra.
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A Bilbao park. (15 May 12)
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The Bilbao riverfront. (15 MAY 12)
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Bilbao bridges (16 May 12)
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The Guggenheim Museum in Biabao. (16 May 12)
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