Proud to be Andalusian

A recent spoof of a Nike commercial from comedian Manu Sánchez’s show, “La Semana Más Larga,” about important Andalusian figures from all periods of history. My town, Castilleja de la Cuesta, gets a shout out as Rita Hayworth’s hometown. But alas, that’s a bygone era. They don’t make Rita Hayworths like they used to.  Now Castilleja is just famous for olive oil wafers. Yum.

Camino de Santiago, 2011 (part 5)

A Galician farmer leads her cows against the flow of pilgrims on the Camino

 

 

Portomarín, Galicia

 

 

A section of the Camino de Santiago in a Galician forest

 

 

Morning light on the final stage of the Camino

 

 

An evening view of the Catedral de Santiago across the Praza do Obradoiro

 

 

Santiago's cathedral by night

 

 

Another night view of the Catedral de Santiago

 

 

Trees in a park in Santiago de Compostela

 

 

The world's only triple spiral staircase in Santiago's Museo do Pobo Galego

 

 

Church chapel in Santiago's Museo do Pobo Galego

 

 

Museo do Pobo Galego

 

 

View of Santiago's Old Town from a park

 

 

View of the Museo do Pobo Galego from a park

 

 

Crucifixion piece in Santiago's Colexiata de Sar church

 

 

Heavenly beams in the Colexiata de Sar

 

 

Last afternoon in Santiago de Compostela

Camino de Santiago, 2011 (part 4)

Cruz de Ferro, where pilgrims deposit a stone as a symbol of a burden relieved

 

 

Molinaseca, a picturesque town on the Camino

 

 

Galician landscape

 

 

Church and cemetary along the way

 

 

Galician house

 

 

Cat on tractor, near the town of Samos

 

 

The town of Sarria at dawn

 

 

Easrly morning on the Camino

Camino de Santiago, 2011 (part 3)

Gate to Burgos's old town

 

 

Burgos's cathedral by night

 

 

Burgos's cathedral in the early morning (view from the city's pilgrim refuge)

 

 

The Spanish meseta in all its open glory

 

 

Country road on the Camino de Santiago

 

 

We slept in the ruins of San Antón, a medieval church used to quarantine and treat a particularly aggressive form of leprecy known as "San Antón's Fire"

 

 

Castilian landscape on the Camino de Santiago

 

 

Typical scene along the middle stretches of the Camino

 

 

Roman footpath along the Camino

 

 

Sunrise at Foncébadon

Camino de Santiago, 2011 (part 2)

Delapidated monument of hay

 

 

Four trees in a wheatfield

 

 

View of a street in Logroño, capital of La Rioja

 

 

My trusty walking stick, bought for 4 euros in Jaca on the second day of the walk

 

 

Two walking companions on the Camino de Santiago

 

 

Solitary tree in a field

 

 

Sunflower and wheat

 

 

Three pilgrims