Author: charlie

The Chair

If you look closely you can see it on the big rock in the center. It was low tide, you can see the high tide line on the lower left foreground. Here is a closeup.

We don’t know who put it there. It looks like it may be fastened on, not sure.

I figured it would be cool to go down there, climb up, sit in it, and have Wynette take photos. Then wait for high tide, about four hours, when the rock was surrounded by the ocean and take more photos.

But Wynette was not willing to suffer for my art. You’ll have to imagine how cool the photos would have been.

Semana Santa Ribadeo

I guess each area has their own poster, Ribadeo is the first town in Galicia on the Camino. I wonder if anyone has collected Semana Santa poster art into a book or analyzed how they have changed over the years.

Street sign

This was in Tapia. Kudos for celebrating an engineer and extra points for fitting the name in the street sign and making it look fairly natural. This rivals “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard” in Albuquerque (aka, by no one but me, King Street)

Hórreos

You may have noticed all the Hórreos photos coming up in the daily autogenerated slideshows. I got interested in them and started taking a photo of every one I passed. Camino walkers will know them from Galicia where they are also ubiquitous but rectangular. In Asturias they’re all square and there are a lot of them. Most houses in small towns have them but you rarely see them between towns. Their original purpose was to dry crops (out of the rain). They are built on stilts with wide plates partway up to prevent mice from climbing up. Here is a typical one:

Surprisingly most of them are in poor shape.

This one is an extreme case of deferred maintenance.

And they come in pairs.

And in playgrounds.

And they have tiny ones.

As we got close to Galicia they suddenly disappeared. We saw a few of the rectangular type but made of bricks. More on Galicia horreos later.