2013 saw the completion of Maurice Hickman's mammoth walking pilgrimage to Compostella.  The full journey was undertaken in stages beginning at Le Puy in    France in April 2008. Maurice has provided photographs from every stage along          the way and these have been looked at 463 times up to the end of April 2013.

This year on 27 March Maurice and two survivors of earlier stages set out on the

final stage beginning at Ponferrada and ending in Compostella where the three

intrepid pilgrims received their certificates of completion of the Camino de San Jacques.  Below are 67 photographs which were taken on Maurice's camera along the way.

 

 

The river Sil at Ponferrada

 

 

A slightly different view of the Sil

 

 

Basilica de la Encina, Ponferrada (holm oak)

 

 

Calle del Reloj, Ponferrada

 

 

Snow on mountains, taken from Ponferrada

 

 

Inside Church at Ponferrada

 

 

Inside Albergue at Pierros

 

 

Outside the same albergue

 

 

Memorial to a daughter's father on stone

 

 

Scene near Villafranca de Bierzo

 

 

Catherine and Carol enjoying the scenery

 

 

Vigil Mass at Veg de Valcarce

 

 

Woodland scene near La Faba

 

 

hurch at La Faba with Pilgrim statue

 

 

The same from another angle

 

 

Scenery near O'Cebreiro (the next five are in the same area)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pilgrim Maurice Maurice supporting or being supported by a stone atthe Leon - Custilla/Galicia Frontier

 

 

Statue of a windswept pilgrim

 

 

Carol, Lady of the House and Catherine at the Casa Lucas cafe - bar in Fonfria

 

 

The Church/Cathedral/ Monastery at Triacastela. "Triacastela" refers to the three castles that once stood here, but none remain. It’s also the end of the last mountainous area on the Camino. 

 

 

Mill scene at San Cristobo

 

 

View of Samos monastery from above

 

 

Cloisters at Samos Monastery

 

 

Cloisters again

 

 

Samos Monastery

 

 

Maurice at 100 Km post

 

 

Reservoir at Portomarin (above and below)

 

 

 

Catherine admiring 17th century wayside cross

 

 

Carol pointing to the word "Gijon" on a gatepost

 

 

Raging waters at Portos

 

 

Catherine points to a model of a stone granary

 

 

A Pi;grim spooning out some local fire water

 

 

Church at Lavacolla (near Santiago Airport)

 

 

  Capilla San Roqueat Lavacolla

 

 

Monument to Blessed Pope John Paul IIat Monte do Gozo

 

 

A more distant view of the same monument

 

 

View at Monte do Gozo looking towards Santiago

 

 

Chapel at Monte do Gozo

 

 

Inside the chapel

 

 

Fonseca garden in Santiago

 

 

Inside the green dor at Hostel Reyes Catholicos

 

Pilgrim evening meal at the Hostel Reyes Catholicos

 

A rather ghostly image of the meal in progress!!

 

 

Seminario Menor, Santiago

 

 

Children's choir at SAn Fructuosus Church

 

 

An unidentified building in Santiago

 

 

Our three pilgrims with a Japanese family inside Hostel Reyes Catholicos (above and below)

 

 

 

Santiago Church

 

 

A view of the Cathedral from A Lameda Park (above and below)

 

 

 

View from Seminario Menor

 

 

Courtyard in Hostel Reyes Catholicos

 

 

Church of Santa Ausanna in Park

 

 

The remainder of the photographs on this page were taken by Maurice in the park and of Seminario Menor