Spring 2024 in the Camino de Santiago and in Albergue Cirauqui Casa Maralotx
It’s impossible to mention everyone here, but we want to try and summarize some of the friends that have visited us, along with some images of the Camino through Cirauqui, Tierra Estella and Navarra. It’s been a cool and somewhat rainy Spring, and the landscape has reflected that beautifully with amazing colors and the early blooming of flowers. We hope you will enjoy the photos taken by our hospitalero Juanma.
As we mentioned, the landscape this year was jaw-dropping, not just for pilgrims but also for those of us who live in the area.
A few images more…:
But let’s go with the real protagonists here, the pilgrims; these are some of the friends that have visited us over the past few weeks:
Michael, from USA / Ireland. A very especial pilgrim to us because we realized as we chatted that he had already stayed with us when we were running another albergue on the Camino Primitivo, several years ago. It was a very especial and funny moment. Michael makes these amazing, unique music instruments, and we were lucky enough that he gave us one of the few he had brought for this Camino. You can find out more about his instruments in his website.
This is Lara, an Italian pilgrim who lives in Canada, and who we established a very especial bond with:
We also had Becky again, who had already stayed with us in her post-Covid Camino on 2021, and who was walking a few stages prior to her volunteering in an albergue in Pamplona for 15 days, with her friend Francine:
Another repeating pilgrim was Lindsay, who has stayed with us already three times over the last three years; this time he also sang some songs after the communal dinner and we all enjoyed it so much. Do you know that he builds his own guitars?:
(By the way, a few days later we also hosted his wife and a friend, Anne and Linda)
That same day we also hosted Dennis Cockrell, who is literally in love with our albergue, as he says in his youtube video:
But let’s continue: in Casa Maralotx we are members of the Camino de Santiago Forum, and this year we have already hosted a few other members. One of the ones that we enjoyed the most was getting to know Rachael, from New Zealand (you can check the post of her stage into Cirauqui and the lovely words she wrote about us in her blog), who happens to be an amazing paint artist, as you may well agree:
If you liked Rachael’s art, don’t miss out on Fernando’s, who came in just a few days later! He did this painting of the church across the square from our albergue in just a short while, from our terrace:
But let’s go on with the forum’s members who have visited us this year: we have also hosted Terri, one of the moderators (the picture is in a cafe in Logroño, but that’s a different story to be told in a different moment…):
A funny coincidence did that, just the day after Terri stayed with us, another lovely couple from the forum, and who we love dearly, also stayed with us: Anne and Patrick, from Australia, and who have stayed in Casa Maralotx countless times by now:
Talk about coincidences… one day Juanma was taking some pictures in Villatuerta when Ariel, Sesselja and Maxime, who had stayed with us the night before, happened to walk by; but furthermore, the next day Juanma was again taking some pictures shortly before Los Arcos and Ariel and Sesselja walked past by again (third photo):
The same day we had these three, we also hosted family He, from China, on the day when Rong turned 60 years old: she invited all pilgrims to a cake:
To continue with pilgrims that stay with us and then Juanma finds elsewhere along the Camino as he takes pictures, this is Dennis and Stephanie as they walked through Estella:
We would also like to send a big hug to Kevin and Yvonne (they know why):
And how to forget these friends, in their challenge to get from SJPP to Santiago pushing a wheel chair. They are Kimberly, Shari, Shelley, Andrew, John and Aaron, and you can find them in their Facebook page:
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