Author: cpcrowley

The bridge

This was the first Camino over-the-highway bridge so far. There is a much larger and well known one just before Astorga. I saw the sign, interpreted it as “walk your bike”, and thought what else would you do?
When I got closer and saw the ramp I realized it was to help you do that. Wynette doesn’t like stairs and used the ramp. It was a little steep but she said it stretched her muscles and it felt good.
Wynette on the bridge with mountains in the distance.
The sign on the other side has been defaced.

Charlie photos 4/19

Shadows
Mural seen walking out of Torres del Rio
Their take on what pilgrims like to eat. Looks more like typical American fast food. They got the coffee right. They missed the French fries that seem to come with every pilgrim’s menu.
Seems like an odd sign to have to have on the trail among the wheat fields on a tiny gravel road which might get a few cars a day. Maybe left behind of some construction?

Asparagus: white or green?

When we order the mixed salad here it almost always comes with white asparagus. I’m sure we’ve shown some salad photos with it. We don’t like it, kind of mushy. Green asparagus is harder to transport and has to be picked before it goes to seed. We heard it was grown underground. Betty, last night, mentioned how they grow it.

They just cover it with black plastic.

Today we were chatting with a guy from Oxford and related the story. He said he did not know there was green asparagus. So it must not be common in the UK either.

So I have to relate my favorite, and only, asparagus joke. At a dinner with shared food a plate of (green) asparagus was being passed down. On getting the plate a woman took a knife and sliced off all the tips and put them on her plate. The next person was shocked and asked why she had done that. She said, “Oh, the tips are the best part, didn’t you know?”

EU routes

The yellow arrow is, of course, the Camino marker. The white over red blaze is a marker for a GR route. The GR routes are all over Europe and several follow the various Caminos.

This year we started seeing these along the Camino

I am referring to the bicycle-1-3-arrow part. I left the rest of the sign for interest. It seems the EU has a number of long bicycle routes. They must be fairly recent since we have not seen these before. Some follow the Camino, like the GRs.

Making sure the perigrinos know this.

EuroVelo 1 is the Atlantic Coast Route, running from Norway down to Portugal.

EuroVelo 3 is the Pilgrims Route, which follows historic pilgrimage paths from Trondheim, Norway all the way to Santiago de Compostela.

Did I say “long”? I meant “looooooooong”.