Popping Pilgrims

Surprises spring from these thirty-three singing postcards of people and places from the Camino de Santiago, northern Spain. Take a stroll with us and Salado The Stick, a big stock of old jokes and a small backpack over the Pyrenees. Camino Carpe Diem... New World and Old Europe songlines...inter-cultural, inter-generational 21st-century encounters...20th century pop playlists...a tune, a moment captured, sackfuls of smiles, unexpected memories and just a few tears...Buen Camino!

Sunday, September 25, 2016

You Never Walk Alone...

AB, Juan-Luis & Oliver...Click on Mogette in photo for full story...

Oliver and José-Luis's song click HERE

Brothers Oliver and Juan-Luis are on their way to Santiago. And perhaps to the 2020 paralympics in Tokyo.
They paused at the top of El Perdon, near Pamplona, for a pic with your Camino Correspondent and with Mogette, our trusty 1973 Citroën 2CV...
Click on Mogette for their inspirational story.

Nota: The Welsh choir song is for to all of Mogette's friends -including Maximo from Buenos Aires, and two lads from South Wales- who helped the intrepid pair during the 2-hour ascent up the track towards the clouds and the wind turbines...

Tidy.

AB

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Angel y Las Huertas de Huarte

Angel on his way to his huerta in Huarte...

Click on photo for Angel's Popping Pilgrim song...

Angel is seventy-nine years old, and twice a week he walks seven kilometres through Pamplona's secret riverside park to buy vegetables from his favourite "Huerta" (market garden) in Huarte.

Then he walks the seven kilometres home.

Sometimes, although very rarely, Angel's path crosses that of a peregrino...

To discover why, and for Angel's full story, click HERE