Spanish church bells at Rabe

A bit basic when compared to the English ones. Video taken at Rabe, just outside Burgos, Kay standing outside the albergue we stayed in during our first Camino.  We were walking through on a Sunday morning, just as the bells were going to announce the commencement of a service.



MVI 1302 from Kin-Mun Kan on Vimeo.

Songs of birds in Galicia

You can watch this with your eyes shut. Just listen . . .  to the birds of Galicia.

Songs of birds in Galicia from Kin-Mun Kan on Vimeo.

More photos

A link has been added to my Picasa album containing photos taken on the Camino 2.

Camino 2 photos

There are more than 500 photos in the Picasa album, so don't spend too much time on each photo!

Orisson

On the Route de Napoleon section of the Camino de Santiago, Orisson is the last location between St Jean Pied de Port (France) and Roncesvalles (Spain) where accommodation is available to walkers. Getting to Orisson required a steep climb of 800m over a 8 km path. Beyond Orisson there is a further steep 500m uphill climb followed by a longer steep downhill stretch, a total distance of 17 km before Roncesvalles.

The view from Orisson is great - when weather permits. We were fortunate to have a short period of clear skies after we arrived.


View from Orisson on the Pyrenees (Route de Napoleon) from Kin-Mun Kan on Vimeo.

Bells of Zabaldika

 

On the day we walked towards Pamplona, we had to follow a path along the small Arga River that was very uncomfortably muddy from previous days of rain. When we got to the village of Zabaldika we had had enough and so decided to take an optional route uphill where we expected the land to be drier even though it meant some steep climbing.

When we reached the top, we were rewarded with not just an excellent view of the surroundings but also a visit to an interesting 13th century church of St Stephens, which nowadays also served to basic accommodation for pilgrims on the Camino. We did not stay there but I accepted the invitation by a nun in charge to ascend the spiral stone staircase up the bell tower to ring the two old bells. It was an interesting experience even though I had to chance my life with the rather questionable timber floor boards. (You might notice from the audio that one of the bells had a crack in it)

MVI 0790 from Kin-Mun Kan on Vimeo.